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Help!!!
Help! My kid has acute tendinitis of ankle and I am trying to figure out how to tape a posterior glide of TC Joint If you know comment below so far I have learned leukotape is great for hair removal!
Help!!!
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y-Zjm8rzQQo this is a great taping technique for achilles issues. It can be simplified a lot, just one good run of K-tape up the middle of the leg, and a second horizontal drag to kind of offload the insertion. I can also imagine applying a posterior glide while applying this and that this might improve its effect. I think with taping we don't necessarily want to rigidly enforce and maintain a bony glide, we want to keep providing a sensory input in that direction. Too much, too tight and too rigid tape generally have their backsides. So while I don't adhere to the kinesio tape "cult" I use the tape a lot because I find it practical. Regarding the video I linked, I don't agree with the speaker about when to apply this kind of taping. I find k-tape great for pain reduction but it does not do a lot functionally. So I don't advice for it as a "game day" strategy. If anything that would rather be a job for rigid tape. But in my optics if you need taping to play you shouldn't really be playing. Especially if the patient is pediatric!
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@Ryan Whelton yeah that must be heartbreaking. I wish him a speedy recovery. Btw here is a description of the first taping I mentioned if you are interested. It's more for peroneal issues or ankle sprains. I love it when a simple one tape application actually gives noticeable relief and this application does that. https://bracelab.com/clinicians-classroom/an-often-overlooked-simple-ankle-taping-technique?srsltid=AfmBOop97dXRLW85OY0tK3OEvwN_CNefsOHV7vitGPUOeBI468QATNgJ
Unconventional Tip for Frozen Shld Dx & Rx
It shocks me that frozen shoulders get called tendonitis by specialists. There are 4 things I check for to Dx 1. Severe pain keeping them up at night 2. Decrease ROM in all planes 3. Severe pain with arm in abduction and I apply minimal inferior glide to GH joint 4. If you ask them to raise their arm up their upper trap raises in conjunction with the Humeral head. They go up together. This happens when the joint is locked. You see this with a nerve injury and RTC tear too but a myotome test and empty can test rules those out. A lot of times the person is told it’s RTC tendonitis. Well if I grabbed your wrist joint and squeezed and told you to perform flexion and extension all day how long do you think it would take for you to develop tendonitis! Watch this teaching video of Frozen shoulders and how I Dx and treat it below. In 2 decades I have never had a patient need to get an MUA (that I am aware of) and my rehabs usually take 8 weeks. I also can usually get 10-12 degrees of ROM in a few minutes without touching the shoulder the patient loves it! Comment “Clinical” below to learn more about my clinical mentorship
0 likes • Jun 29
Looking forward to watch this later. The clinical dogma where I live suggests that true frozen shoulder should not be treated by pt or exercise but let it go through the natural history, at most give pendulum exercises within pain limits and scapula setting to ease pain and preserve motor function as good as possible. My pet peeve is theee patients get tendinitis or bursitis AFTER the frozen shoulder is resolved, because of cuff atrophy during the 1.5-2 year natural history. So they should all have a proper cuff rehab/prehab when mobility is back. If there is anything I felt confident to do that would reliably help them earlier with the actual adhesive capsulitis that would be amazing
1 like • Jun 29
@Ryan Whelton that is very interesting. Looking forward to look into this later in the week, I have a shoulder focused clinic and this could be a game changer (I am swamped with tax work and patients right now 😅)
TMJ - What Causes it, What to do....
One of the reasons I see so much failed TMJ treatments in my clinic is because their actual cause of it was missed. They get night splints, scans, injections etc but no lasting relief. Years ago, I started to ask myself why are these muscles locked down around the TMJ. I had an insight, they were stressed! Clinching was subconscious to them and a lot were grinding in their sleep. I also saw a pattern, that these patients also had neck hypertonicity, headaches a lot of the time in addition to TMJ. In these patients they had too much stress. I call these "Stress injuries". When I identified that root cause for them was stress I would tell them that and they would argue with me saying I am not stressed! Most people live at constant level of stress that they are unaware of I found. I asked them to meditate but patient after patient refused so I gave up on that as I realized I had better luck asking them to change their religion! (literally) A great help was a GOOD CBD 3x a day at a dose they feel relaxed at in 2.5 hrs. Side note: I have found TMJ patients to be the least complaint patients I have ever worked with! What has worked for you?
1 like • May 7
I believe there are two main TMJ dysfunction patterns. One is tension based, where basically autonomous dysregulation ends up causing mechanical issues with the jaw. The other being «truly» mechanical, so it’s actually the other way around, mechanical issues in the jaw and long standing pain and compensation patterns give rise to secondary tension issues. The first is very treatable by physio and responds well to psychomotor therapy / basal body awareness method type interventions. The second type in my experience needs a dental / ortho intervention but who knows maybe skilled and specialized manual therapy can be relevant.
1 like • May 7
Great point and its always helpful if they had exam by a dentist before physio. I am lucky enough to share hallways with a very good dental practice so I can send the patient straight to them to book an eval if they haven’t had one :)
Mystery Diagnosis/Diagnoses -What is your Dx?
Take a stab at it, leave what you think was causing all this in the comments below.... 7 years ago patient had neck adjustment, L fascial numbness, L arm numbness, L genital and glut numbness and L LE weakness. Neurologist x 2 scanned MRIs were negative, MRA of brain negative, EMG negative, PTs, chiros etc etc no help since then I had her strength back and numbness gone in 5 mins! Hint: There were 3 diagnoses
1 like • May 7
Sacral torsion/shear, si joint irritation, and likely some sort of upper cervical mechanical issues? Would bet this patient had little to no spontaneous gliding movement of their sternum in breathing, flared ribs, tight scm+neck extensors and a slight head tilt.
1 like • May 7
@Ryan Whelton fun :) obviously we can’t dx from the symptoms alone but knowledge from your materials do give us some ideas as to the likely culprits.
What Are You Struggling With to Rehab? Let Me Help...
Comment below a condition(s) that frustrates you to rehab, we all have them. What's yours?? I usually can help!
0 likes • Apr 8
calcific tendinopathies of the shoulder. Generally I get great results with shoulder tendinopathies, starting them off on a high frequency isometric protocol, then a phase two with fairly heavy rotation exercises in the 10-12 then 8-10 rep range, with prolonged eccentric phase. I do some thoracic mobility and scapula control in non-provoking angles simultaneously across all phases, and finish of in a phase three often with more mobility work if needed and more functionally demanding exercises like overhead presses, often stuff patients would never believe they were going to do again. Every now and then I will have a patient with great response to the isometrics, but when we progress to the phase two heavy eccentrics they will flare up dramatically. After this they won’t tolerate even isometrics for weeks and months. If I have them do an ultrasound with my colleague the finding is generally that they have a lot of calcium deposits in the tendon and they are flared up in what I believe is called the resorptive phase in English . Other frustrating conditions: Heel pad syndrome. Shin splints.
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@Ryan Whelton thank you I will look into this. Your shoulder protocol, is that in the introductory shoulder course?
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Andreas Roeim
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Private practice physiotherapist from Norway.

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