Sports Performance Optimization for Over-Head Sports: Part One -The Kinetic Chain

Part 2 of the Kinetic Chain is the shoulder elbow and wrist in the acceleration phase of pitching and the deceleration phase (where the injuries are more common)     Online Courses: https://richardhazel.podia.com    

Ground Reaction Force (GRF) Hip-To-Shoulder Separation (HTS) The Anterior Oblique Sling The Posterior Oblique Sling Setting the groundwork for Part Two about Baseball Pitching   Online Course: https://richardhazel.podia.com  

The Hip Internal and External Rotators are important for agility to rapidly change direction and have an important role to play in proprioception and to avoid knee injury.   Online Courses: https://richardhazel.podia.com Courses Never Expire.  

The Abductors and the Adductors of the Hip are essential for sports with lateral movement, cutting and changing direction with Power and Agility.   Optimizing the Lateral Stabilizers will also help to avoid knee and ankle injuries.   Online Courses: https://richardhazel.podia.com    

Interesting case this week of bilateral foot pain and numbness on an American Football Player.  I walk through my thinking, my way to assess and confirm my assumptions and the results mid-way through and the adjustment I made to get to 100% pain-free.   Online Courses: https://richardhazel.podia.com SEPT20 all month for 20% off all courses.  

Part One of Three How we can optimize Sports Performance by working on the Lumbopelvic Hip Complex in all Planes of Movement Today it's about Triple Extension   Online Courses: https://richardhazel.podia.com SEPT20 for 20% all Courses until the end of Sept 2025

Thank you to everyone who made our Barcelona Acupuncture Congress a success! I give a brief recap of what I talked about. Then a college Volleyball player had an injury of the interosseous muscles of the foot.     I'm running a 20% Discount for September  SEPT20 at checkout for all courses. My courses never expire!   https://richardhazel.podia.com    

Most thumb pain can be fixed really quickly with electric stimulation acupuncture on the motor points of the thumb muscles. Here's what I do for thumb pain.      Online Courses: https://richardhazel.podia.com  

I've been showing this to people in live seminars for years but I'm finally willing to say with certainty that this is repeatable and reliable for relieving the lower leg symptoms from sciatica.    Online Courses: https://richardhazel.podia.com    

Until now, sports medicine has been highly influenced by the MDs who treat injury so we often follow suit as acupuncturists. Functional Acupuncture is always looking at the whole picture. We can treat more than just the injury. We can look up the chain or into the past to find healthy muscles to optimize and improve sports performance and avoid injury.    Learn more about Functional Acupuncture with my Online Courses on Podia: https://richardhazel.podia.com