For 24 hours this weekend, I went on an organizational purge. I cleaned out closets, file cabinets, bookcases, shredded like a maniac, recycled and donated whatever I could. During my elimination bender, I came across some old papers from grad school. I have been slowly but surely disposing of my grad school and PT school papers and books over the years, realizing that I have […]
As I have written before, I LOVE my summer family! Every time I am around the staff, presenters and attendees of Perform Better Summits I just feel better. I feel excited about the profession. I get fuel from the passion that everyone there has about our industries. I get fired up to learn more. I realize how much I don’t know. Long Beach was no
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Last year, I was asked to speak at the Okanagan Strength and Conditioning Conference in 2014. The Oka..what?!?! I had never heard of the place, didn’t know how to pronounce it and had not heard of the conference. So….I did a little research. Being that I am throwing a year of pseudo-retirement into my life right now, the main criteria for me speaking somewhere in
Have you ever seen Fever Pitch…that movie with Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore? Well, at one point in the movie he says “these people (the other season ticket holders around him) are like my summer family”. That is exactly how I feel about the Perform Better crew. And man, I have missed my summer family! Don’t get me wrong, I did have great summers filled
Thank you Henry Rivera for your question! Your most useful tool in the field? What certification/ class/ seminar changed the way you practice? What skill set do you use the most and why? I am prepping for my Perform Better talk, which is “How To Organize Your Tool Box”. Basically, we are learning so many things, acquiring so many certifications, and blending rehab and performance
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Dry needling has become one of my most used modalities in my clinical practice. The more I learn about it, the different techniques, the physiology and how to apply it to injury, performance and recovery the more I use it and the results keep improving. There are several misconceptions and general misinformation out there regarding dry needling. Hopefully I can shed some light on a
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