Will Morris
Starting Strength Coach

Before I answer the overall question: have you had a post-operative EMG / Nerve Conduction Study? Further, do you recall any talk of nerve injury...

Succinctly, the answer to whether this is necessary or not is this: probably. I think this is a reasonable course of action. Had I suffered the same...

I've found, in both clinical practice and personal experience, that heavy doubles / triples work really well for rehabbing acute muscle strains. If...

Or.....just wrap your wrists well. Wrap the wrists, not the forearms.

There was a reason I didn’t post anything here. I was about 99.9% sure it was going to be self-limiting, but I wanted you to experience that yourself.

Please keep in mind that I have an extremely unhealthy connection and commitment to training.

Clinician: It is always advisable to follow your surgeon's guidance for return to activity after surgery. Me as an marginally educated trainee: I...

Are you asking me for what I would tell a patient, or are you asking what I would do if I were the patient?

It would have been pretty cash money of you to open in May 2023 so I could have applied for the head coach position. Thinking of expanding into...

Start with doing some tempo squats, slow Romanian deadlifts, and some 1-0-3 tempo stiff legged deadlifts on your typical training days. These might...

As long as you had a plan to gradually wean yourself off of the strap over the course of the protocol, it will work fine. There is nothing about the...

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I wouldn't necessarily expect a general practitioner to be all that equipped to be able to effectively manage something like hamstring syndrome.

A few things that I consider when reading through his reports: 1) long history of soccer and chronic low back/ hip pain 2) gluteal pain...

CNS Fatigue is CrossFit speak for "overtraining" or "under-recovery", but the addition of "sciencey" sounding terminology makes it much more...

Sleep in a better position to help = sleeping with a Snoogle maternity pillow.

You searched the board and did not find any information on recommendations for tendinopathies?

Dr. Palladino, what does this sound like?

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Why is stretching effective for your situation? Just posing the question as an academic exercise.

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Difficult question to answer, but I will say this: it depends. Generally speaking, every guideline I have ever seen with regards to ibuprofen...

This is, in all likelihood, a fairly unrealistic goal. This isn't to say that you can't be pain free, but the complex nature of pain makes this a...

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Tempo work really seems to be more effective than most other treatments I have seen utilized. For this particular issue, if you were a patient in my...

Will it alleviate the problem? That's a bit of a loaded question since the pain experience is far more complicated than just tissue damage. But, in...