Motion Guidance Blog

Motion Guidance Blog

Patient A/Patient B: Thought Experiment on Pain

Patient A/Patient B: Thought Experiment on Pain

____Start of thought experiment:   Imagine, for the sake of a thought experiment, that you could instantly clone your body as an exact replica, where you would then have version...
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Early Phase ACL and TKE Progressions

Early Phase ACL and TKE Progressions

This quick blog will discuss some options for early rehab utilizing visual feedback with a knee patient. This may apply to post operative ACL rehab or Total Knee rehab, or any...
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Improving knee extension in physical therapy post TKA total knee arthroplasty

Improving knee extension in physical therapy post TKA total knee arthroplasty

Achieving full knee extension is crucial early on post Total Knee Arthroplasty, and can often be a challenge. Factors may include pain, quadriceps inhibition, and difficulty "figuring out" what it...
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Chronic Lower Back Pain and Joint Position Sense

This is a mini-blog with the intent of giving the user of the Motion Guidance visual feedback product insight into a researched-based approach to using the product for the diagnosis...
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Shoulder Instability and Joint Position Sense Error

This is a mini-blog with the intent of giving the user of the Motion Guidance visual feedback product insight into a researched-based approach to using the product for the diagnosis...
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Visual Inputs and Motor Learning

A Vision and Motor Learning Christmas Blog Do you see what I see...?       Often times in rehabilitation, we over simplify or over complicate various topics. This can...
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Deep Neck Flexor Exercise

Deep Neck Flexor Exercise

Deep neck flexor training is a common go-to post various physical ailments, from neck pain, whiplash headache and TMD. The most common bio-feedback tool is the Chattanooga blood pressure cuff...
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The Motion Guidance Concept

The Motion Guidance Concept

This blog is intended to discuss the overall concept of the Motion Guidance system. Motion Guidance was created to bring a valuable and affordable visual feedback system that any clinic...
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Fluid Motion: pain & free flow

Fluid Motion: pain & free flow

How multiple aspects of pain experience can inhibit our free flow “Tension is who you think you should be. Relaxation is who you are — Chinese Proverb “Motor responses reflect...
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Why aren’t we turning the light switch off more?

Why aren’t we turning the light switch off more?

Remember the Clapper?  “Catchy jingle” is how Morgan Freeman described it in Bruce Almighty.  A simple device applied to a light switch that is designed to turn the light on or...
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Whiplash

Whiplash

I wonder if head-bangers report less pain and dysfunction after an MVI?  W.A.D. Whiplash, known to practitioners as “WAD” or Whiplash Associative Disorder, is a collection of symptoms associated with...
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What is my Inferior Temporal Gyrus?

What is my Inferior Temporal Gyrus?

...And why haven’t I up-trained this mother for my ACL Clients?   ACL injury is prevalent in athletics.  Not only are there immediate injury and changes, but there is substantial evidence...
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Ensuring Good Performance Strategies: Striving for the "Triple Play"

Ensuring Good Performance Strategies: Striving for the "Triple Play"

 Ensuring Good Performance Strategies: Striving for the "Triple Play"   For those who have followed this blog, one of the most researched backed uses of the Motion Guidance Clinician Kit...
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Tactile Chicken Soup for the Brain

Tactile Chicken Soup for the Brain

REORGANIZE, SHARPEN, AND HONE THE BODY SCHEMA This guy has nothing to do with that statement, but looks like someone who might say that... Today’s blog will discuss some interesting...
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Anterior Knee pain – Part II

Anterior Knee pain – Part II

  Anterior Knee pain and the influence of the retro-patellar fat pad –Part II We’ve just finished up discussing the anatomy and potential mechanisms of pain from the Retro-patellar Fat...
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Lunge Position & Patellofemoral Stresses

Lunge Position & Patellofemoral Stresses

The forward lunge is a common exercise in both home fitness routines as well as with personal trainers and physical therapist to increase the load and capacity of the lower...
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Anterior Knee pain - Part I

Anterior Knee pain - Part I

Anterior Knee pain and the influence of the retro-patellar fat pad –Part I   “The front of my knee below my knee cap hurts!” How often do we hear that...
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Proprioception

Proprioception

  What are you focused on today?  Getting to work on time.  Finishing that house project that you’ve been banging away at for months now. Maybe just being a better...
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