24 Feb Straight Leg Raise – Hip External Rotation
HOW: In a seated position on the ground or table, have your legs straight out from your hips. Rotate your foot outward, keep your knee straight, and squeeze your quad muscle pushing down with your knee. From here, keep the squeeze in your quad...
24 Feb Scap Squeeze – Hand Behind Head
HOW: Start in a seated position with your hands interlocked behind your head. With your shoulders and arms relaxed, squeeze your shoulder blades back. Pretend there is a pencil in between them that you are trying to squeeze. Return to the starting relaxed position...
24 Feb Scap Squeeze – Hand Behind Back
HOW: Begin in a seated position. Place your arms behind your back. Keep your arms relaxed as you squeeze your shoulder blades down and back. Imagine trying to squeeze a pencil in between them. Repeat for the prescribed amount of reps. FEEL: You should...
24 Feb Scalene Stretch
HOW: Begin in a seated position on a stool or chair. Place your hand underneath your bottom anchoring down your shoulder. Keep your shoulder depressed down as you tilt your head to the opposite side away from the anchored hand. Hold for the prescribed...
10 Dec Tibial Rotation – Slider
HOW: Begin in a seated position in a chair. Place a slider underneath one foot. Your ankle should be under your knee. Keep your knee still as you rotate your foot out and back in only rotating your lower leg. FEEL: You won’t feel...
10 Dec Soldier External Rotation – Dumbbell
HOW: Begin in a seated position with one knee bent up and your foot flat on the floor. Grab a dumbbell and place your elbow on top of the bent up knee. Keep a 90 degree angle in your elbow and rotate your arm...
10 Dec Pilates Saw
HOW: Start in a sitting position with your legs straight and slightly spread apart. Your back should be upright and slightly hinged forward at the hips. Extend your arms out to the side straight out from your shoulders. From here, rotate your upper body...
18 Sep Seated Ankle Inversion – Band
HOW: Anchor a band under the bottom of one foot. Cross the other leg over placing that ankle on top of the other knee. Loop the band around the foot. The band should be pulling your ankle/foot down. From here, move your foot up...
11 Sep Behind Knee Soft Tissue Mobilization – Lacrosse Ball
HOW: Begin in a seated position on the ground with a lacrosse ball underneath your knee. There are various ways to mobilize the soft tissue. You can keep your knee straight and roll the ball in any direction. You can have your knee relaxed...
22 Aug Ankle Eversion – Plantarflexion Bias, Band Around Heel
HOW: Begin in a seated position. Loop a band around an anchor or the leg of the chair and place your foot inside the loop with the band going around your heel. Walk your foot out against and find a good resistance to start...
