Does stretching work when a muscle is over-recruited? 

Not if you don’t change the movement pattern. 

This is an excellent follow-up to episode #162, showing how you clinically reason through another weightlifting injury. 

Join Susan and Erica as they discuss a patient who sustained a shoulder/neck injury during a “basic” tricep extension exercise. 

The main takeaways are twofold: You must assess the connections between the 2 drivers and treating one region alone will not improve this patient’s symptoms. 

Why? 

Because if you look at his mechanism of injury plus his old movement history as a rower, you will understand that these connections exist and why one region was more dominant, depending if it was OKC or CKC. 

Enjoy!

A glance at this episode:

• [3:01] Physical therapy for a hip injury
• [6:29] Looking at the head and neck area
• [12:58] Lumbar spine rotation and compression fracture
• [15:58] Understanding the movement pattern
• [19:50] Treating both areas of the body
• [26:20] Sensory input to the joints
• [32:23] The best way to recruit deep muscles

Related links:

• Tough To Treat Website
• Erica’s Course: Decoding the Complex Patient
• Susan’s Pelvic Health Education Subscription
• Access the Transcript