Omniathlete

Whether you are recovering from an injury or looking to upgrade your athletic performance, one major key to success lies in the nervous system. The nervous system, including the brain, is a major influence on the function of the body. It directly controls cognitive and athletic performance, hormonal releases, energy levels, organ function, and the processes of healing and recovery. One particularly interesting quality of the brain is that it spends a lot of energy limiting us

Recovery is an essential part of the training program for high-level performance and continued improvement (Dalleck, 2019). Lack of recovery, trauma, overuse or prolonged stress of the tissue structures are all common examples of causes of the occurrence of sport injuries (Bahr et al., 2015). There are several treatments that are usually performed after sports injury aiming to speed up the recovery process. These treatments traditionally include e.g. hot or cold packs, thera

For almost 20 years I have been helping people overcome pain with manual therapy and using exercise to help them improve functional capacity. I have found it very easy to perform manipulation, tooling, needling, taping (among other modalities) to help alleviate pain. But as a clinician I have the responsibility to include active therapy (exercise) whenever possible. My belief is manual therapy is the bridge to help people be more active and exercise more. The difficult part f

The hip (femoroacetabular) joint is arguably the most important joint in the human body as it relates to biomechanics of athletic performance. In every sport in the world, one hip joint may be called upon to perform quick, powerful and oftentimes violent movements while the other hip provides the necessary coordinated stability around which these movements can occur. There are 29 different muscles that are working in synergy to create effective movements around the hip joint.

The Hamstring Management series continues with the fifth episode in which i had the pleasure of discussing with Andreas Beck, currently holding the role of the Head of Strength & Conditioning at Borussia Dortmund. AR: Andreas, thank you for being part of this hamstring management series. Can you explain how your role has evolved over time and how you actually manage all the aspects related to performance and rehab at Borussia Dortmund? Andreas Beck: I'm working in professi

For the fourth episode of the Hamstring Management series i'm happy to introduce Gustavo Pérez Solano, which is currently the Head Fitness Coach at River Plate 2nd Team. I have known Gustavo for several years, he is one of the smartest and respected professionals in football in Argentina and he has worked with all the best Argentinian players the River Plate has been producing for the past 20 years. AR: Gustavo, you've been working with River Plate for a long time now. Can

After baseball and football we are going to look at what happens into professional basketball with one of the most successful teams in recent years in Europe. I have the pleasure to introduce Kostas Chatzichristos, currently Director of Performance at CSKA Moscow, for the third episode of the hamstring management series. AR: Kostas, you've been working with the CSKA Moscow for 4 years now. Can you explain how your role has evolved over time and how you actually manage all th

After the first successful article/interview of the hamstring management series with Ken Crenshaw of Arizona Diamondbacks, it's time to introduce the second episode with the great Darcy Norman, currently Director of Performance at AS Roma. I'm very honoured to have Darcy as a guest of this series as his concepts are always a great stimulus for discussion. © AS Roma AR: Darcy, you've been working in professional football for a long time now. Can you explain how your role has

Today i have the pleasure to start an exclusive article/interview series on the topic of hamstrings management in team sport with a bunch of colleagues working worldwide in professional teams in different disciplines (football, baseball, basketball and rugby). For the first episode of the series i reached out to Ken Crenshaw, one of the key professionals when talking about performance in MLB. We met a few years ago and we had some interesting discussions about injury preventi