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Twitter1. Always nice when people unite in coming to somebody's aid:
2. How to improve patient compliance? Just post a sign....
Always intrigued with ways to influence behavior. Particularly when those ways are fairly simple to implement.
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3. Nine lesser known stretches for baseball:
4. DEAN BRITTENHAM: "He sprints with all this resistance... It builds great eccentric strength"
Read an article recently about the Runnin’ Rebels of the University of Las Vegas, and, since they recently purchased a Shuttle MVP, it made me wonder if they would be using their new MVP to work on their running skills.
Most people associate the Shuttle MVP with leg pressing and plyometrics. They don't often associate it with improving cardiovascular endurance. In the video below, strength & conditioning coach, Dean Brittenham, explains how the MVP offers a unique approach to sprint training:
5. Six Simple Ways to Fix Standing Posture:
6. Physical therapists... mending bodies and breaking hearts
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Now that Valentine's Day has come and gone - let's talk about love. True love. You know, the kind of love between a patient and their physical therapist.
I read recently about a war veteran who fell in love with his PT and, subsequently, donated his artificial leg to a "broken hearts" museum (apparently, his leg lasted longer than their relationship), Well, I've read about the whole "patient falling in love with their care-giver" phenomenon. And, while I've never experienced either end of that little love loop, I can see where patients don't stand a chance when it comes to their physical therapist.
First, all physical therapists are good looking.
I mean, they have to be - it's professional protocol. They've spent their entire educational life learning about health. Now, they spend every waking moment focusing on health. Therefore, PT's can't help but be healthy. They take good care of themselves. In other words, they clean up nice.
And let's face it, anything less would be like a dermatologist with acne... not exactly confidence-inspiring.
Add to their good looks the fact that physical therapists have the most incredibly sweet personalities known to mankind. It's been widely quoted that PT's are...
"Some of the nicest, most pleasant and cheerful masochists you’ll ever want to meet!"
But the truth is, they've gotta be....
People come to a PT when they've been beat up by life. They've taken it on the chin, shoulder, or plantar fascia and their bodies and spirits have been broken. They're at their most vulnerable. And let's face it, they need more than a Stuart Smalley with nifty sweater and painted-on smile to restore them to a life worth living.
They need a physical therapist.
So, a person with that kind of abject need, bodily dysfunction and emotional vulnerability drags themselves to the doorstep of the nearest physical therapy clinic.
And who answers the door?
None other than Aphrodite and Adonis... gods who are hypersonically healthy, celestially positive, wearing perpetually perky polo shirts and crisply creased khakis? (Say that five times fast)
It's like dying of thirst and trying to take a sip of water from a fire hydrant!
It's so unfair!!
Can I be so bold as to offer the physical therapist a little piece of advice? If you're beautiful beyond compare and if you're happy and you know it - here you go:
First, shut off the smolder!
I mean, eat a Ding Dong once and awhile! Maybe you could show up to the clinic wearing a frumpy jogging suit sometime... with chips and hot dog stains on your pant leg. Yeah, that'd help!
Second, we know that bringing us back from the brink of injurial death will take the powers of Deepak Chopra, Zig Ziglar, and Matt Foley combined. But, just once, if we're not progressing in our treatment like you'd like us to, could you show us just a little displeasure? Even the hint of a frown would be nice. If we're not doing an exercise exactly right, could you a feign a cussword or something? It'd make us feel so much better.
Thank you physical therapists - one and all!
Now you can help us mend our bodies while we work to keep our hearts in check.