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04 Mon

How to add 10 yards on your golf swing

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How to add up to 10 yards on your golf swing Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CGFI Would you like to increase your driver head speed, ball carry, and driving distance immediately and for FREE? It’s easy and it all involves how you warm up. Most people...

Tags: dynamic, golf, golf swing, Paul Kochoa, strengthening, stretching, swing

28 Tue

Avoiding Knee Surgery

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Avoiding Knee Surgery Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CGFI The February edition of AARP Magazine featured an article on knee pain and how to avoid knee replacement surgery. They listed several strategies to try before opting for surgery: Avoid jumping, running, and high impact workouts. Lose...

02 Mon

Treating trigger points and reducing pain

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Treating trigger points and reducing pain Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CGFI I’ve written about trigger points before. They’re gnarly places in a muscle or soft tissue region of the body that totally elicits pain, localized or referred, when it gets pressed. As physiotherapists, we can treat trigger...

23 Wed

Born to move, not to sit or lie down.

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Born to move, not to sit or lie down Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CGFI The New York Times pretty much has it covered. After spreading the news that sitting is killing us and lying down isn’t any better, they’ve come out with basically what I’ve been...

Tags: movement, Paul Kochoa, sitting

04 Fri

Geriatric weight lifting

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Geriatric weight lifting Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CGFI Lifting weights or pumping iron… by any name, does not conjure up an elderly individual. Generally, when discussing weight lifting or weight training, people will associate this with a younger population, not with someone over 65 years old, much...

Tags: exercise, geriatrics, injury prevention, muscle, Paul Kochoa

01 Tue

Your squat is not my squat

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Your squat is not my squat Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CGFI The squat is a basic, functional movement pattern that I teach to most of my patients. The other day in the fitness center, I saw a member squatting with some good range of motion. His...

Tags: ankle, exercise, functional movement, hip, knee, Paul Kochoa, range of motion, squat

05 Wed

Choose PT

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Choose PT American Physical Therapy Association October is National Physical Therapy Month. This year’s campaign is #choosePT No one wants to live in pain. But no one should put their health at risk in an effort to be pain free. Since 1999, Americans have increasingly been prescribed...

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12 Fri

Cupping makes an Olympic debut, but we’ve been doing it for years.

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Cupping makes an Olympic debut, but we’ve been doing it for years.

Cupping makes an Olympic debut Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CGFI The New York Times and other media outlets have picked up on the purple marks on Olympic athletes’ bodies and it seems that cupping is the new craze. Just like Kinesiotaping and Instrument Assisted Soft Tissue...

Tags: athlete, cupping, Olympics, Paul Kochoa, soft tissue mobilization

08 Fri

A great exercise for shoulder stability

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A great exercise for shoulder stability Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CGFI Shoulders generally have good range of motion, but tend to be a little unstable when lifting weights overhead. Here’s an exercise that will work on your shoulder and scapular stability and reveal just how stable...

Tags: core, Paul Kochoa, posture, scapula, shoulder, shoulder blade, stability, trunk

06 Wed

Do you have full shoulder range of motion?

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Do you have full shoulder range of motion? Paul Kochoa, PT, DPT, OCS, CGFI The other day, I had a young athlete come in complaining of shoulder pain. She had pain with overhead movements at her end range of motion. Her sport requires that she have pretty...

Tags: flexibility, joint, pain, Paul Kochoa, posture, range of motion, shoulder, tightness

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