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Modern Acute Injury Management

February 8, 2022

What do you do when you’re out for a run, and you step on a rock and twist your ankle? Or say you’re in the gym lifting weights, and you feel a twinge of pain in your shoulder than lingers? What about if you go to pick up your sock from the floor and feel

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How To Rehab Your Hamstring Strain

February 8, 2022

The hamstrings are a large group of muscles that run the length of the back of your thigh. Their action is to bend the knee and extend the hip behind you. These muscle actions are very important for all sports and can be a huge determinant of performance. A hamstring strain can be one of

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Shoulder Injuries In Overhead Athletes

January 1, 2021

Athletes who play sports requiring repetitive, forceful, overhead movements such as baseball, volleyball, or handball players, have been shown to be at a somewhat high risk of shoulder injury. Some studies have shown that 5-12% of athletes report they have had moderate or high reduction in training volume or performance levels due to some kind

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Squat Myths

January 1, 2021

Figuring out the proper way to not only perform a squat but then be able to cue the squat correctly can become difficult. There are a lot of false narratives out there about proper squat form including depth, stance, and performance of the squat, so we wanted to take this time to tackle a few

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Post Workout Recovery

January 1, 2021

Why “More” Can Be “Less” Repetitions, weight, distance, speed, length…there are so many factors we take into consideration with our workouts. Everyone wants to achieve the most optimal results, but one of the most common aspects of a workout routine we see our patients overlook is RECOVERY. And it has a HUGE impact on your

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Starting And Sticking To A New Exercise Program

January 1, 2021

Well, it’s January, and about 99% of people have made some kind of goal or resolution involving more exercise. We all have seen the stats that show staggering numbers of people will give up on their new year’s resolutions in about a month. Iron Standard is here to support you in reaching your goals, and

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Lifting With A Rounded Back

January 1, 2021

It’s conventional wisdom in the fields of weightlifting, body mechanics, and occupational health that lifting with a flexed spine, or rounded back, is bad. Surveys of health professionals in many different fields show that this is a very widely held belief. Most of these health professionals, as well as the general public assume that lifting

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Can Physical Therapy Help Sciatica?

January 1, 2021

What Is Sciatica? If you’ve ever dealt with Sciatica, you know that it can be a debilitating condition. Many people who have back pain, hip pain,pain in their buttock, or radiating leg pain have been told that they have sciatica, but to truly be sciatica, this must include some kind of pathology involving the sciatic

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Loading Is Medicine

January 1, 2021

When it comes to the tissues in our body, they enjoy the proper stresses and strains to promote their growth and healing… not dissimilar to us as humans. We walk through life looking for challenges that will bend us but not break us, intern forcing us to grow and become stronger in the process. If

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Can Physical Therapy Help Arthritis?

January 1, 2021

My very quick and steadfast answer is “YES!!, it’s the BEST thing you could do for it, or to avoid it!!” What Is Arthritis? To understand how Physical Therapy can help arthritis, let me first explain what arthritis is. Arthritis is a medical term most commonly used to describe joint inflammation. Now “joint inflammation” can

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