One athlete's pain comes down to years of imbalance created by one leg being slightly shorter than the other. Sometimes you have to sweat the small stuff. As a sports physical therapist, my traditional caseload is loaded with ACL tears, shoulder issues, and ankle sprains. I...
You’ve seen them in the gym: the grinders. They don’t just work their muscles — they pound them, set after set, laying waste to every fiber with any tool they can find, from barbells and dumbbells to bands and bodyweight. Instead of working the whole body three or...
The push-up may be as close to a perfect exercise as it gets. You don’t need equipment, you can do them anywhere, and when done correctly, they work muscles throughout your body (not just in your chest and arms). If you have trouble banging out at...
Why do we do a double-take when we hear our voice on a recording? It’s because our voice sounds lower to us as it reverberates through the skull. The bystander, on the other hand, hears an unmitigated, and therefore higher, version of our voice. We...