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Professional Development

Book Recommendation (For the Nerds)

Good morning. This one is for the nerds. Check out Assessment and Treatment of Muscle Imbalances. I used this book for my last grad course (Kin 6301 Functional Assessment of Movement). Really encourages you to think about: the role of movement screening in developing exercise programs, how movement dysfunction contributes to orthopaedic injury risk, principles […]

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Why We Need 12-24 Sessions With Post-Rehab Clients

Kinesiology is an emerging field, slowly finding its place amongst other allied health and health care professions. Historically, Kinesiology is new, compared to the inception and growth of other established professions (i.e., massage therapy, physiotherapy, chiropractic, and medicine). Often, (I do not believe this to be intentional), our message, scope of practice, and efficaciousness appears […]

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Tensegrity, Hip Dysfunction, and Low Back Pain

Tensegrity can be thought of as an aggregate of compressive and tensile forces, which induce stability (Levin, 2002). Tensegrity not only exists at the cellular level; research has supported a link of the cell to the extracellular matrix, thereby affecting the behavior of other cells it is connected with. Moreover, observations have also suggested a […]

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