Treatment of chronic radiculopathy of the first sacral nerve root using neuromobilization techniques: A case study -Journal of Back & Musculoskeletal Rehab 9-10, Talebi et al.
A good book for every A.T.'s personal library should be Australian David Butler's "The Sensitive Nervous System". It's full of great, safe, easy to learn neuromobilization techniques.
This is the kind of stuff I think belongs in the recovery/restoration phase of training.
Where did that day after the high school football game lifting/running deal begin? All you see is a bunch of sore, tired kids using bad technique and slogging. After a collison sport like football or rugby, why not an extended dyamic flexibility routine; something that looks like yoga or thai chi? It's a great way to get some neural mobilization going before the fibrin and elastin from the inflammatory injury response bites down on the axons.
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Joe,
Along the same lines, we started doing a dynamic cool down at the end of hard workouts and races-when we can corral the 100 runners on the team. It makes a lot of sense in a sport like football. Do the football coaches listen. How many believe in the circuits that Jim radcliff has developed?
Joe, check out this site www.thegaitguys.com.
Martin
I will take a look at that website Jack. However, in general I am very disillusioned with what I find on the net. My goal in this blog is to take the latest from the scientific journals and give them practical, on field applications that the high school ATC/coach can use right out of the box. While it's true sports medicine is a discipline that has always been driven by the practitioners (search my "kitchen chemistry" post), it has become more $$ driven than evidence driven. The U.S. is the worst offender; but we're not the only one.
Hey Joe...we include neural stretching in our post match recovery sessions. Interesting point on the almighty dollar driving the practices of clinicians. Of interest is how certain money making fads are prominent over here but not in the US and vice versa.
Brian- Am I correct that the Australian school of physio has a big impact in the UK?
Yes, furthermore things over here are VERY manual therapy based. The sports medicine world on this side are only just beginning to get exposed to The importance if movement and exercise( Gary Gray, McGill, Cook, Sarhman)...at first people thought I was a crazy American for some of the stuffi I was having players do now it's catching on....
as you already know combining the two produces synergistic effects! Too many of these one way or the other guys.
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