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Diaphragmatic Breathing
Diaphragmatic Breathing is Very Impactful for Sports and Low Back Pain: Breathing is an extremely important part of stabilizing your core and can become a vital tool when attempting to lift a lot of weight. Your spine is stabilized by a lot of...
Labrum Injury in the Shoulder and Sports Rehab
Understanding Shoulder Instability: Shoulder injuries are common among athletes due to the rigorous demands of their sports, which often involve repetitive overhead motions, sudden changes in motion, and high-impact activities. One significant...
Knee Pain, Swelling, Clicking, and Tendon Issues
Common Source for Knee Pain, Swelling, Clicking, and Other Problems for Athletes: Running and exercise play an integral role in maintaining a healthy lifestyle. However, knee clicking and pain during these activities can be distressing and may...
Pain Science and Complexity of Interpretation
The Experience of Pain is More Complex Than We Think: Pain science is a topic that is gaining a lot of traction recently and our understanding & perception of pain. Traditionally, pain has always been thought of as a signal that informs you...
Sports Physical Therapy and Back Pain
Back Pain, Athletes, and Sports Physical Therapy: Low back pain is a common condition that affects millions of people worldwide. It can be caused by a variety of factors, including poor posture, muscle strains, degenerative changes within the facet...
Dry Needling – Rationale, Application, & Health
Dry Needling directly helps promote healing: Dry needling is an intervention utilized by several healthcare practitioners and is gaining popularity in western medicine. Dry Needling uses the same needles and insertion techniques as Acupuncture...
Cupping Therapy
What Exactly is Cupping Therapy: Cupping is an ancient form of alternative medicine that some reports date back up to 5000 years. In eastern medicine the use of cupping is designed to target one's Qi, or energy life force. Traditional Chinese...
Ankle Sprains and Ankle Health
Ankle Sprains, Mechanism of Injury, and Related Anatomy: There are a couple different kinds of sprains that can happen in the ankle. The different kinds of classifications are based on what ligament was injured and the severity. The most common...
Neck Issues & Texting!
Neck Problems and Tech Postures: These days the average person spends between 7 and a whopping 12 hours a day looking at a screen, including time spent on computers and smartphones. With this screen time often comes very poor posture and having...
Shoulder Range of Motion & Over Head Movement
Shoulder Range of Motion & Joint Mobility for Over Head Movement: The shoulder is a joint that requires a lot of muscular control to stabilize as it is very incongruent, with little surface area connection between your humerus and shoulder...
TMJ Problems (Temporomandibular Joint)
Clicking - "My Jaw is out of Whack!" Does your jaw click when you open it? Do you feel like you can't open your mouth as wide as you used to be able to? These may be signs that you have some dysfunction going on in your jaw specifically what is...
Achilles Tendinitis & Injury
Achilles Tendinitis: Let's talk about Achilles Tendinitis or as previously discussed "Tendinopathy" might be the better term to describe a problematic tendon issue. This can happen acutely like after a long run for the first time in a while or high...
Tendon Health and Tendonitis
Keeping Tendons Healthy and Preventing Tendonitis! Tendon health is very important for the longevity of any athlete who is competing at any level where there is repeated or significant force placed through their joints. Many athletes and...
Paying Out-of-Pocket vs. Insurance Based Physical Therapy
You Deserve Better Than What Your Insurance Allows! We have been transitioning to a different physical therapy model over the last year. It’s called the “patient care comes first model”. Now some would call this a cash-based physical therapy model,...
Big Toe Motion and Importance for Foot Health
The Big Toe is very Important for Foot Health! When it comes to parts of the body the toes are not often discussed when working on improving performance. However, this can be an area that may be limiting a person's ability to improve running,...
Hip Joint Health, Movement, and Impingement
It's All in the Hips! Hip Mobility is an important component of many functional activities and can often be a culprit with poor movement patterns. The hip joint is an inherently very stable joint despite being a ball and socket joint. This means...
Shoulder Mobility & Movement
Staying Loose and Mobile in the Right Places: The shoulder is a joint that requires a lot of muscular control to stabilize as it is very unstable and incongruent. There is little surface area connection between your humerus and shoulder socket...
Golfer’s Elbow & Tennis Elbow
The rundown for Golfer's Elbow and Tennis Elbow: When it comes to sports that involve gripping a racket or club or stick there are two common injuries that can occur in the arm; Golfer’s Elbow and Tennis Elbow. These injuries have been dubbed these...
Tendinitis, Tendinopathy, & Overuse Injury
Tendinopathy - Overuse Injury! Tendon health is very important for the longevity of any athlete who is competing at any level where there is repeated or significant force placed through their joints. Many athletes and recreational athletes will at...
Foot Posture
Foot Posture Foot posture is important to consider with exercise! When our foot is in a good, solid position, it helps us get the most out of the exercises we are doing and more importantly keeps are muscles and joints working in a healthy...
Protein & Exercise 101
What the Research Suggests About Protein & Exercise: Protein is great for building muscle and promoting weight loss, but what does the research say about how and when we should use it?? Athletes who play multiple sports require enough protein...
Motion is Lotion
Why we say "Motion is Lotion". I had an interesting conversation with a friend about an injury they suffered to their knee. They said to me "I'm not doing anything with it right now because I want it to rest". The key word in there is REST. Rarely...
Hamstrings Injury & Breakdown
If you like to watch sports, you have probably seen someone sprinting down the field or track, grab the back of their leg, and go down in agony. Or, if you play in a kickball league (adult sports anyone??), you may have witnessed this in person...
Should You Stretch Before or After Exercise?
When and What type of Stretching should athletes implement? Stretching can be an awesome tool to warm up or cool down your body, gain or maintain range of motion, and well, keep you feeling flexible! But what KIND of stretching should you do WHEN?...
When is an X-Ray or MRI Recommended?
Musculoskeletal imaging such as MRIs and X-Ray's are important tools in the diagnosis and screening of serious injuries and conditions. However, overuse of imaging is a current issue in the healthcare system. We often think a diagnostic image is...
Pain with Running? Adjust Your Cadence
Do you have pain with running? Or have you experienced an overuse injury due to running in the past? Before you go about changing your running form or throwing in the towel altogether, you should look at something called your cadence. What...
ACL Tears: The Basics
“Tom Brady Tears ACL” was an epic 2008 headline but not the only time you hear about someone tearing their ACL. A number of other professional athletes have torn their ACL and bounced back including Alex Morgan, Adrian Peterson, Rob Gronkowski, and...
Sciatica? Here’s What You Need to Know!
Have you or someone you know experienced Sciatica before? Sciatica is under the umbrella of what is known as Lumbar Radiculopathy. It may sound fancy.. or scary. But, to simplify it, Lumbar Radiculopathy is when a nerve in your back gets irritated...
Why You May Want To Avoid Sit Ups!
We are trained to believe that “I need to strengthen my core!” is synonymous with “I must do sit ups!” Sorry to break it to you, this is NOT TRUE! Sit ups may be helpful for some things, such as strengthening your Rectus Abdominus (aka your “Six...
Meniscus Tear: What Is It and When Do I Need To Worry?
The Meniscus is a cartilage disc that provides shock absorption and stability to your knee joint. Each knee has two of menisci inside. Athletes and nonathletes can injure the meniscus. It is typically caused by a twisting or rotation motion with...
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Here’s What Our Patients Have To Say
Doctor Kyle is amazing! I came to Kyle after dealing with some SI joint dysfunction and pain for about a month and within just a couple visits and exercises that he shared with me I was feeling better and back to the gym with no issues.
Kyle truly knows his stuff and takes his time to educate his patients on what is going on with their injury and the plan of action to get you better!
J.S.
After meniscus surgery and a traumatic pregnancy I was very nervous to get back into working out. 4 months postpartum Dr.Kyle made me feel confident I would get to do all the things I loved to again with no pain. He showed me the skills I needed in order to prevent Injury now and in the future, proper technique and knowledge are what he is all about! “Motion is lotion!”
Thank you Dr.Kyle
M.D.
Before coming to Athlete Restoration, I was convinced that I would always be limited on the activities I could do or exercises I could perform due to chronic lower back issues. Now I’m back in the gym with a renewed purpose and strategy. Thanks to my newly developed core stability, I’m no longer afraid to chase my kids around for fear of a back spasm putting me in bed for a week.
Thank you Dr. Kyle for your amazing practice!
R. A.
So I tweaked my back in a CrossFit workout… I took time off lifting and thought that it would get better. It didn’t. I reached out to Athlete Restoration and was able to get evaluated that week. 10 sessions later, my back pain is gone and I’m moving better than I have in years. The focus on addressing the root of the problem was a game changer.
W. T.
Dr. Kyle is remarkably professional and knowledgable. If you’re in need of a Physical Therapist, this is the place.
J.D.
Kyle is an excellent physical therapist. His background and credentials speak for themselves, but I was always impressed with his extensive knowledge and approach. I highly recommend Kyle to anyone who wants to be 100%.
S.C.
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