Golf Swing and Low Back Pain
The golf swing involves a series of complicated unilateral body movements. At some time virtually every golfer, whether a “weekend warrior” or professional will experience injury or chronic pain in the low back. To hit the ball a distance the body must have the ability to rotate and maintain a wide arc through the Swing. At a recent seminar someone with a practice at a golf club was asking about techniques for typical golf injuries… so I though I would post this recent article and video.
Click for Article on Golf Swing … Low Back Pain…
This is a huge demographic for potential clients in your manual therapy business.
View Video – Dalton, Golf Swing… Low Back Pain
We will be teaching these and many other techniques for golf and other sports injuries at the next Myoskeletal Workshop in Seattle Washington August 27 – 29..
December 7th, 2010 at 2:21 pm
Hi Erik
I took 2 weekend courses from you in the past and have found it to be very beneficial. However, I do some work out of a gym with the table and wanted to know if there are any contraindications to MAT on clients who have a history of steroid use? There tendons seem to be way too tight.
December 10th, 2010 at 12:27 pm
Daniel:
I’ve really had little experience treating anabolic steroid users but don’t see any contradictions. Just work at the tissue restrictive barrier and don’t “bully” those strained tendons. They become fibrotic due to sudden tightening of the muscle from anabolic use.
I do treat many people who have overused corticosteroids, i.e., tennis/golfer’s elbow, etc and you really have to be careful if they’ve been injected over three times in the same location…cortico’s will eat us connective tissue pretty quickly.