Another finger injury common in BJJ athletes is a side-to-side pull/strain to the middle finger joint. This will leave you with a swollen, painful, and difficult to bend finger joint. Left long enough, simple tasks like holding your phone or carrying groceries can become painful and difficult. Here’s a jammed finger treatment to try especially …
Finger injuries are a dime a dozen in BJJ and one of the most common is the classic jammed finger. So how to fix a jammed finger? Often a jammed finger will leave you with a swollen, painful and difficult to bend finger joint. Instead of just leaving it & hoping it’ll heal on its …
One of the most common symptoms we see after an athlete gets hurt in an armbar is pain and not being able to fully straighten their elbow. Get your Elbow Straight after an Armbar Once we are sure there is no fracture (check out this post on the 4-way range of movement test), we start …
Finger injuries are unavoidable. Understanding the common injuries and what to do about them, helps to manage them better, and get you back to full health quicker. Today we’re talking about Collateral Ligament Injuries In this livestream I go over: More BJJ Finger Injury Content is Coming… Be sure to follow along as over the …
General knee joint pains can be caused by a variety of factors. For join related issues simple ways to gap the joint often help get symptoms moving in the right direction to be able to bend your knee pain free. How often do you hyper extend your knee? Probably never. However you should have up …
Join us as diagnosis and start an initial rehab plan during a live knee pain assessment in our Friday Q&A. Friday Live Q&A’s Each Friday we go live on Instagram for a Q&A. Anyone who joins in can ask questions or even jump on for a live assessment. You can see when the next one …
Get your back pain under control! Here’s a quick exercise to help alleviate your back pain symptoms so you can get back onto the mats and if you liked this, there’s a lot more where it came from… Use our Back Pain Rehab Guide to get control fast and take the first steps to get …
As we go deeper into our month on armbar and elbow injuries, today we’re sharing another movement to help open up pain-free range of movement while bending your elbow. Remember that if you get an armbar injured the first step is to find out what structures got injured and clear any bony injuries before starting …
After you figure out what structures got injured and clear any bony injuries, it’s time to start rehab on your armbar injury. Don’t let elbow pain keep you off the mats! At Grapplers Performance we use 3 phases in our rehab plans:1. Control symptoms & normalize movement2. Rebuild and strengthen3. Maintain and sustain Initial steps …
After a painful armbar, you may be wondering if you should go in for an x-ray. A common injury after an armbar is a fracture or bony injury (alongside a few others, which we go over here). If that’s what’s causing the pain, typically an x-ray is the best next step in your rehab journey. …
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