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. …
Elbow hurt after an armbar? We’ve all been there! In this video we dive into what might be causing the pain if you have got an injury from an armbar. At Grapplers Performance we find that elbow injuries are some of the most common to occur in BJJ, often due to armbars. Following an injury …
Is your shoulder extension where it should be? The 3rd movement screen we are covering for common BJJ injuries is the shoulder extension. Your shoulder should allow your arm to go behind your back 45-60 degrees, without compensations. This movement is important for running, pulling movements like arm drags, fighting grips, bracing on the ground …
Check our this fun Before & After of a patient with have been working with recently who was kind of enough to give us permission to share his results so far. When we first met he had daily shoulder & neck pain, flaring up particularly bad after BJJ. Frustratingly this led him to stop training …
External rotation of the shoulder is vital to create a stable joint & prevent injuries, especially in grappling sports. Athletes lacking external rotation often end up with shoulder pains and other problems further down the line, like elbow joint pains and nerve pains that can extend down the wrist and fingers. In the second of …
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