Welcome to the Durable Body! I'm Dr. Keith, an orthopedic physical therapist, and my goal is to help you optimize your body so you can have the freedom to enjoy life.
It's hard to enjoy life when aches and pains are holding you back from doing the things you love or the things you used to take for granted. Often times people chalk it up to "just getting old" and believe that taking pain meds is the only thing they can do. I strongly disagree.
As a physical therapist, my job is teaching my clients the right exercises, strengthening the right muscles, and optimizing their movement, so they can get back to their lives free from pain and weakness. It works. I've seen it.
I'll be sharing with you tips on the right exercises to do to keep your body healthy and to help you rehab that back, knee, hip, shoulder, foot, etc.
My hope is that by sharing these videos, it can empower you get active and stay active so you can get out and enjoy life.
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Ronaldo has a serious patellar tendon. In 2014 he was injured for 3 to 6 months. After that injury ronaldos dribbling skills decrease and ronaldo was LW after injury he becamed an First ST.
BAREfoot shoes is a misnomer… There is no such thing as barefoot shoes. Try walking barefoot and then try wearing the very thinest minimalist shoe you can find. Is there a difference? There is a HUGE difference! I have done a lot of barefoot walking and running - there is no comparison. Bare is bare. Anything coming in between your foot and the ground makes you no longer experience what REAL barefoot walking/running is. Let’s use the correct terminology: MINIMALIST SHOES ladies & gents
developed horrible peroneus brevis tendinitis from transitioning to barefoot. i've always walked around barefoot-my entire life. I'm a high volume mountain athlete and now I can barely walk. Wondering how to rehab this injury. Doctors and PT's I've seen just give me boiler plate exercises that have done no good.
The first advice shall be : take off your shoes and walk on the hard surface. And walk on the spiky grass field. Then walking this way you will find what is your arch spring and how it works. It calls forefoot strike gait. Then come back to barefoot shoe and remember this walking gate.
why is this so called doctor giving out such misinformation? if you want to wear barefoot shoes you need to walk totally different, its that simple. all of this advice is garbage. you need to learn to forefoot strike and get completely away from the heal strike.
I had been doing knee rehab for a few months after trying to rehab yet it being unsuccessful for years. My knee rehab had been going well, I was stronger than ever and able to play basketball pain free at a decent load. However, a few days ago my knee really flared up for the first time in months (I speculate this is because I pushed the limits a little bit). It seems to be healing relatively well (I think it will be nearly 100% pain free within a few days.) however I was wondering how should I attack rehab? Should I regress all the way to the start? Should I start in the middle? Does my knee need to be 100% pain free when I start rehabbing? And how fast should I progress? Thank you so much.
As an ex college runner, I was always trying for a smooth foot strike just in front of the heel, and rolling smoothly from then on. But observers told me that they saw more space than that between my foot and the ground. Many times what we think we are doing is not at all what’s happening. That’s why Feldenkrais teaches you to explore specific movements, until your mind finds what it prefers, then you can evolve into that adopted motion. Also, filming yourself captures your true motion.
Hey Greg! I would say, if it helps reduce pain for those stressful activities, then it’s probably worth using if it lets you be active. However, doing things that really aggravate the tendon can make it hard for the tendon to recover. So it’s important to dose the exercises and the hiking in the right amounts to avoid flare ups.
@@thedurablebodyThank you! I started doing some of those exercises in preparation for a 16mi hike in the next couple of weeks, I use poles for the down hike and that has helped a lot, but the last big hike I did last month definitely the knee didn't like that , took a few days to recover, but that was with out a strap and having not done any rehabing. Im sure I will be ok after seeing your video ! thanks again
Hello there so I been having bad Achilles tendon pain in my left leg I been having tendon pain but it got worse I remember it used to recover for me in like 3 4 days I can run completely find now it start to hurt in my running and can’t sometimes run how I want to run I was thinking about taking like 2 3 weeks off I’m in the gym 5 days a week and I usually run 2 3 times in a week but I can’t because of the pain I been having it just swelling pain and hurt when I rub it
Hey Darion! Tendons like some exercise or load through them. Decreasing the running may be a good idea if it's really irritable, but I would still try to walk or at least use the bike while trying to rehab it. When people just let it rest, maybe it calms down, but then it's not any stronger. So when they return back to running, the same problem comes back. When they do get back to running, it should be gradual and generally avoid inclines/hills in the beginning.
@@thedurablebody thank you soo much I really appreciate it yes I’m be doing cross training biking in the gym stair master in the gym and calves raises I think I’m take 2 3 weeks off and see
Thanks for watching! Here’s a video on fixing Achilles tendon pain for long term relief: Fix Achilles Tendinitis with 3 Exercises from a Physical Therapist ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-5VCNmSpV_Bw.html
I’m doing physical therapy right now for this. It’s a lot of things like my knees face in-words, and a bunch of others. But ,I couldn’t really run or walk for a while without it hurting now it’s better but I have a brace. And I’m still doing physical therapy.
Hi Agnes! Not necessarily. You can go however deep you can handle with good form. For some going partial depth will be challenging enough. And then you can progress lower over time.
