Clinical Study

Cupping therapy is a trendy treatment method. Various sports medicine professionals and athletes have touted it as a cure-all modality. What does the evidence say?

Grip strength is a strong indicator of overall health for older adults. The correlation is so strong between grip strength, overall strength, bodily functions, and aging that it has become a biomarker in clinical settings.

Kinesiology tape is touted as one of the best adjunct treatments. Let’s scrutinize the proposed benefits and see if taping really is an evidence-based practice.

The CDC's STEADI initiative aims to reduce falls in the elderly population. Here we will explore each of these three parts of the STEADI initiative and how you can use it for fall prevention in your elderly clients.

A comparison between soft tissue mobilization and joint mobilization/manipulation techniques for treating low back pain. I'll cover clinical data on these techniques for low back pain, specific techniques, indications, and contraindications.

Achilles tendon ruptures take a wide range of clinical judgement – from the surgeon, therapist, and the client. Between early rehab and returning to sport or activities, you have a lot of clinical decisions to make.

These findings could change the way we think about and apply eccentric and concentric exercises in rehab. Let’s explore this new research and what it means for our clinical practice.

Biofeedback has long been considered an alternative treatment approach. But recently, traditional healthcare providers have used it in response to growing evidence. Biofeedback is behavior modification that trains the brain to make the body function better. Biofeedback uses equipment to monitor and show the body’s processes in realtime1. People can use this information to regulate…

In 200 years of studying hand dominance, we have not found clear-cut answer as to why we develop one side more than the other. But we do know hand strength and dominance affect our functional performance.

The data showed that each intervention provided some level of improvement.  But exercise was the most consistently effective option. More specifically, eccentric exercise was the single most effective treatment for all joints in the study

The Eccentron produced muscle activation almost four times higher than the other exercises for all muscle groups tested. With the Eccentron, participants achieved an average muscle activation of 60% of their maximum.

As Ben Goldacre writes in his enlightening book, Bad Science, Cochrane's long-respected analysis "has revealed that 'best practices' were sometimes murderously flawed, and simply by sifting methodologically through preexisting data, it has saved more lives than you could possibly imagine."