Diaphragm is the primary muscle for inspiration. Due to its large dome shape, it kind of looks like a parachute that separates your chest cavity from your abdomen. Proper breathing is very important due to its affects on blow flow to the tissue and the oxygenation. An efficient breathing pattern also...
ACL series: mechanism
ACL (Anterior cruciate ligamant) is one of the ligaments in the knee which prevents excessive shear forces to improve stability. The most common non-contact ACL injury mechanism includes a deceleration task with knee going into excessive extension and buckling in as the body shifts over the injured knee while the...
ACL series: predisposing factors
There are many factors that can play role in an ACL injury. Looking at the big picture, we can classify these factors as; Extrinsic meaning factors outside of our body such as shoe wear, surface played etc. Intrinsic meaning factors inside of our body such as muscle strength, flexibility etc....
Prevent neck and shoulder pain post crossfit
Crossfit is getting really popular for the past 10 years and as the interest from many people grows, there are many crossfit gyms that are opening in every corner. If you have never done it or not sure what it is, here is a little summary. What is crossfit? Crossfit combines...
4 common injuries of a new momma
Thumb sprain Repetitively picking your little one up can sprain your thumbs. What’s a sprain? Sprains occur when we overstretch our ligaments, since ligaments are noncontactile tissue, they don’t have extensibility. If you put excessive stress on them, some of the fibers will start tearing. That’s what we call a...
Importance of rehabilitation during pregnancy
Besides many, one of the most common complaints that you can hear from a pregnant women is "my back hurts." Some factors that can create back pain during pregnancy are losing muscle mass, postural changes, developing baby and hormones. Even though, soon-to-be-mom cannot do much about losing muscle mass, and certainly...
Core strength and back pain
Common reasons to why we suffer from back pain are trauma, poor posture, poor lifting biomechanics, prolonged positions that pushes our body to its limits such as sitting 8 hours a day at work. Two types of injury that we clinically treat are acute and chronic injuries. Acute means a sudden injury...
Gluteal spasm: can mimic herniated disc symptoms
Did you know one of your hip muscles can mimic herniated disc symptoms? Meet my patient - AJ. Of course, that's not his real name, I got consent to share his story but still want to respect his privacy. I started treating AJ for his elbow and he was very...
Patellar tendonitis: Jumpers knee
Patellar tendonitis aka jumpers knee is the tendonitis of the patella tendon. Looking at the anatomy of the knee, quadriceps start from your hip and inserts on your shin bone. Your knee cap bone aka patella in a free floating bone that is embedded in that tendon. The tendon junction...
Why even bother with drinking water?!!
Did you know 60% of our biosystem is water and maintaining adequate water intake is important for functioning? Lets start at the cellular level. We all know that cells are the building blocks of a organism that are organized in a functionally meaningful way. In order to burn energy (ATP),...