I teach people how to solve complex movement problems with simple training solutions.
PLEASE don’t just study ortho.
You’ll be much more prepared for the complex stuff that appears on your schedule.
Advice to anyone starting or considering going to PT school 👉🏼Don’t get in your own way of learning.
02/28/2026
Time flies when you’re working with great people.
I had the pleasure of working with on his clinical rotation here at and prepping NYC to have another great clinician.
Best of luck to him on his next rotation and as he finishes up school. Keep an eye out for him!
Everything you do manipulates constraints. That’s not what makes it the Constraints-Led Approach (CLA).
Four criteria. All four. Miss one and you’re doing something else — maybe something useful, but not CLA.
Instability =/= Pain
This is a TEXTBOOK example of a “J-Sign” where the patella moves laterally during knee extension.
If you look closely, you’ll also see the quads work extra hard on the eccentric (rewind and pay attention to the muscle shake)
There was a previous history of dislocation, but this person is able to run, though they will feel occasional “shift”.
Lots of emphasis on mid-range strength, plantarflexion, and quad, especially, but the goal isn’t to “fix” this.
Just build load tolerance and match the demands of daily life, including surfing and running more.
If the stimulus is high enough, your body will respond.
This is why runners need to learn the skill of strength training and how to prevent it from impacting their race preparation.
“Training the Olympic Lifts is a waste of time”
Ok, well at least I can flex the one time I went to University Nationals the rest of my life 😩
For the love of deep squats, please learn how to bail.
The solution? Refer out. No shame in not being the one.
Just some Sn**ch highlights from my return to lifting.
Signed up to so I have no excuses to get back to throwing some weights around.
Just gotta make sure I stay limber. Those drop snatches will help.