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Top Spinal Mobility Exercises to Improve Flexibility and Reduce Pain
Maintaining a healthy and mobile spine is essential for overall well-being, impacting everything from your postural positions and flexibility to daily comfort and mobility for various lifestyle, household or exercise habits. Spinal mobility exercises can play a critical role in mitigating the demands of our modern lifestyle for alleviating back pain and improving flexibility, as many of us spend long...
CrossFit,
Elbow,
Hip Pain,
Knee Pain,
Low Back,
Lower Body,
Neck Pain,
Upper Body,
CrossFit After Shoulder Surgery
Since your initial injury, your mind is flooded with thoughts of getting back to your gym full speed. You’ve been longing for the day post-op to finally start Rx’ing workouts again. But yet you’re stuck drowning in anxiety from what you can and can’t do. Returning to snatches, kipping pull-ups, toes to bar, and muscle ups is a daunting challenge...
CrossFit,
Elbow,
Hip Pain,
Knee Pain,
Low Back,
Lower Body,
Pregnancy & Postpartum,
Running,
Shoulder Pain,
Upper Body,
Finding a Good Sports Physical Therapy Clinic
Finding a good sports physical therapist is key to rehabbing an injury and getting back to the sport you love. With the right rehab team and plan in place, we can reduce the risk of re-injury. In addition, we can work on strength & mobility limitations, which can drastically improve performance specific to your individual sport. At Onward, we specialize...
CrossFit,
Shoulder Pain,
Upper Body,
Overhead Squat Shoulder Pain
One of the common things we treat here at Onward is overhead squat shoulder pain in functional fitness athletes. This is because the overhead squat position (really wide grip overhead) can be a stressful position on the shoulder. If you don’t have good strength and mobility around that area, this stress will increase. We’re going to go through three drills...
CrossFit,
Headaches,
Lower Body,
Neck Pain,
Upper Body,
Best Thoracic Spine Mobility Exercises
Your upper back, or thoracic spine, mobility is incredibly important for athletic performance and rehabilitating from injuries to your low back, shoulders, and neck. When stiff, it can put extra stress on each of these areas so mobilizing these joints can be very important. Our Favorite Thoracic Spine Mobility Exercises. Foam Roller Thoracic Spine Extensions Up first is foam roller...
CrossFit,
Elbow,
Upper Body,
Elbow Pain in the CrossFit Athlete
One of the most common areas of pain we see in functional fitness / CrossFit athletes is medial elbow pain. This is also known as a golfer’s elbow. This condition makes gymnastics movements such as pull-ups, muscle-ups, and toes to bar painful. When even more irritable, barbell-based movements become difficult as grip strength and pain are altered. So, why is...