Lifting And Golfing Hip Rehab With Meghan Helwig

05/17/17 • 56 min

Dr. Meghan Helwig is a Doctor of Physical Therapy I met at a seminar a few years ago while in Boston. At the time, I actually had a knee injury I was suffering from so between the sessions I asked her to take a look at it.

I was blown away by her troubleshooting ability and how she was about to look beyond the places I hurt.

This is what we are going to talk about in this session. Using your past history and past injuries to solve your current hip pain from lifting and/or golfing. Dr. Helwig specializes in both sports and personally takes part in both for her own leisure... all while having a hip labral tear. Awesome!

Here is a rough idea of what we covered in the hour:

Most common hip injury in lifting and golf
LIFE HACK: How to assess your own hip function
How treating scars of ligaments can improve your game
The process of doing corrective exercise just after treatment
Apologies from me... as I want to make sure no certifying bodies think we are bashing them :)

You can reach Dr. Helwig at http://www.primalstrengthpt.com/ . Reach out to her if you are in Northern San Diego CA. Her Instagram handle is @primalstrengthdoc.

Visit our site for references on this session http://www.P2SportsCare.com.

SHOW NOTES

I was blown away by her troubleshooting ability and how she was about to look beyond the places I hurt.

Here is a rough idea of what we covered in the hour:

Most common hip injury in lifting and golf
LIFE HACK: How to assess your own hip function
How treating scars of ligaments can improve your game
The process of doing corrective exercise just after treatment
Apologies from me... as I want to make sure no certifying bodies think we are bashing them :)

You can reach Dr. Helwig at http://www.primalstrengthpt.com/ . Reach out to her if you are in Northern San Diego CA. Her Instagram handle is @primalstrengthdoc.

Visit our site for references on this session http://www.P2SportsCare.com.

Previous Episode

Hip Injury Mechanics: Must Know Before Surgery

SHOW NOTES

In this session, I go over everything you need to know to interpret what your doctor, physical therapist or sports chiropractor is talking about before rehab of the hip. Communication and common terminology is extremely important for compliance of a treatment plan.

Compliance means you will stick to the plan.

This sounds like I am treating patients as children and I don’t mean that at all, but it’s extremely common for people to not value what they don’t understand. You need understand why a certain treatment plan is recommended for your condition.

It all starts with common terminology.

So on that note, we will go through:

Anatomy of the hip (bones, ligaments, tendons, muscles)
Mechanics of the hip (open and closed chain)
Some analogies to assist in your understanding
Open and closed chain mechanics

If you want to get one of the best books of anatomy, try the Netters Coloring Book http://amzn.to/2m58g2B . It has proven to be very helpful in learning anatomy and very cheap.

The Netters larger book is the book 99% of rehab practitioners learn anatomy from in school. http://amzn.to/2mokcir

Enjoy!

Next Episode

Frustrated Sports Hernia Caller

SHOW NOTES

I had a listener leave a message for me about their sports hernia. They have been dealing with it for almost a year. They tried therapy 3x a week for month and it never got better. Now he is at the point where they would like to have the sports hernia surgery... but surprise... their insurance won’t cover it. They call it “experimental.” the going cost is around $10k.

This is not a live call but I do my best to give advice. It’s tough when we are weighing the dollars and cents of “is it worth it.” If you want to know more about Sports Hernia, I have a whole page with current research references here http://www.p2sportscare.com/sports-hernia/