#29 Jill Cook & Ebonie Rio: Tendons

[@MrownXXV]

I know this almost three years too late but this is a fantastic episode. Not a practitioner, but I’ve had rotator cuff issues for the last year so this info has really helped my ability to rehab. Thanks!

[@wildphysiofitness]

I'm glad it was helpful.

[@be-kind00]

@wildphysiofitness How come you never mention quad tendon tendinopathy? Or do you have a different term for Severe quad tendinosis?

[@wildphysiofitness]

Thanks for your comment. We didn't cover that in this podcast.

[@be-kind00]

@@wildphysiofitness Oh I thought when you say pateller tendinopathy that incuded the quad tendon also. Where do you talk about quadracept tendinopathy/tendinosis? Thank you...

[@wildphysiofitness]

I haven't covered it on a podcast.

[@Bazilisk_AU]

This comment comes two years too late to the party but had to chime is. At 22:17 you start to bring up Ben Patrick / Kneesovertoesguy and his approach to addressing knee pain. Having worked his program to address shin splints myself and applying KoT principles to Parkour Training, I have to clarify something important. You say "He [Ben Patrick] pushes people into deep ranges of knee flexion to try and help with chronic knee issues" which is a bit of a misrepresentation of what he actually does. The way you've worded it, you've taken what he prescribes at the the end stage of recovery - the 'return to conditioning' phase then saying that he makes people fresh off the field that have walked into the clinic with undiagnosed knee pain go into full knee flexion - That couldn't be further from the truth. The goal at the end of the marathon is absolutely to be able to achieve deep knee flexion in a split squat and deep knee flexion in a slantboard VMO squat - Those are the 'Athletic Standards' but those two things aren't prescribed willy nilly. Again, in the ATG System there's a concept called "Short Range Strength" which is akin to either isometric or short range of motion slow eccentrics which is beyond 15 degrees of ROM away from any sentation of pain. The Long Range work like pushing into Long Split Squats only really begins when the Short Range work increases the pain free threshold. By the time you've read this, you're probably already well aware of this but for the sake of people finding this video in the future, I feel like I have to clear things up. For Joe Average who doesn't have an understanding of the underlying principles of the ATG System and only looks at the demonstration of ability - if someone like that goes out and tries to perform things like a Long Split Squat or a Slant Board VMO Squat they'll most likely do more harm to themselves than good. It's exactly like going off and doing Dead Hangs or Jefferson Curls to try and find relief from undiagnosed back pain fresh off the gym floor. I'm currently looking at ways to mend Lateral Elbow Tendonopathy which is still a bit of a blind-spot in the ATG system. Unfortunately common in my field as Parkour Athletes are often also Calisthenics Athletes who perform straight-arm-strength skills who take piss-poor management of their load, volume, intensity, rest and nutrition. As of today, as of writing this, an observation was made that Every Single One of the athletes with Tendonopathy in my Movement Studio including myself are sugar addicts... which is a sample size of three but it's something.