ACL Recovery | Post Competitive Insight

Mar 4, 20194 min read

Creating Tibial Space

My relationship with my knee goes in waves of excellence and issue. In periods of calm when things are swell, I enjoy and explore...

Dec 29, 20173 min read

Knees, Hamstrings, and Low Gait

The low gait might be the truest test of healthy knees. It requires full flexion under full bodyweight while pulling the center of mass....

Jan 12, 20173 min read

Plantar flexion and the Low Sit

This post serves as a companion piece to Pain Exploration: Medial Knee. It picks up right where it left off, with manipulations of the...

Nov 6, 20163 min read

Pain Exploration: Medial Knee

For about two months, I’ve had some chronic discomfort in my left knee. On a scale of 1-10, with ’10’ being agony and ‘1’ being...

Jul 1, 20163 min read

Hamstring Curls and Loaded Knee Flexion

Thirteen years ago, I had ACL reconstruction surgery using a hamstring graft. My tissues have long since ‘healed’, but the overall...

Feb 7, 20166 min read

ACL rehab – thinking beyond typical protocols

I suffered a partial tear of my left ACL in 2003 during a rugby match. There isn’t a cool or gruesome backstory involved, just some...

Oct 11, 20153 min read

SHINS: the Hamstring – Dorsiflexion Connection

The lower leg can be a mess. The shins are responsible for two main movements, dorsiflexion (top of foot pull) and plantar flexion...

Aug 17, 20152 min read

Hamstrings (Pt. 2) – Controlling Knee Flexion

In part one of this series, we tried to resolve hamstring tightness by adjusting the pelvis and degree of flexion in the hips. The goal...