I just came back from the Function Training Summit in Long Beach, CA put on by Perform Better and I must say there are tons of great new ideas out there. I believed this before but I am going to say it again... "The Joint by Joint Approach to the Body" by Mike Boyle and Gray Cook makes perfect and complete sense.... and it does also to many of our patients.
People are always looking for answers about why they have the injuries they do, such as a knee or shoulder pain... when you start to look at the human body as an alternating series of mobile and stable joints it is easy to see why a football player who taped his ankles all year will blow his knee out at some point in the season or a baseball player who sits in class all day throws his arm out.
You need mobility of the ankles, hips, thoracic spine and neck before you can do any type of stability training, like core.... there is no point.
Anyways after going to the seminar and reaffirming all of our core principles of the human body, we want to let you know that we are even more "fired up" about getting each and every person we see out of pain and then correcting the CAUSE of the injury in the first place.
We are in the business to make dangerous athletes and there is no way just a "band-aid" is going to fix the infection below.
Dr. Sebastian Gonzales DC
CSCS
