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𝗥𝗲𝗵𝗮𝗯-𝗨 | 𝗠𝗼𝘃𝗲𝗺𝗲𝗻𝘁 & 𝗣𝗲𝗿𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝗰𝗲 𝗧𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗮𝗽𝘆
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02/20/2026
🚀 Ready to build a rehab career that actually works?
Here’s the truth:
❌ Overbooked and underpaid in the clinic isn’t sustainable
❌ Free but broke in the gym isn’t either
The solution? Structured rehab programs that deliver lasting transformation.
In my FREE 90-minute Rehab Career Accelerator Workshop, you’ll learn how to:
✅ Create structured 12–16 week rehab programs that actually get results
✅ Attract premium clients/patients who happily pay for real outcomes
✅ Build a career model that gives you more freedom, income, and impact
📅 Date: February 22, 2026
🕑 Time: 12:00 pm Eastern (US & Canada) / 5:00 pm UK
This could be the turning point in your rehab career.
👉 Click the LINK IN BIO to register for the Free online workshop
If extension disappears as soon as load is added, it means the spine doesn’t yet have the strength to resist flexion — and that’s where performance (and tolerance) breaks down.
This is where exercise selection matters.
Not all upper-back exercises load thoracic extension in the same way.
Horizontal row variations, and especially the Pendlay row, are super effective for this.
Starting each rep from a dead stop removes momentum and forces the client/patient to:
✔ Actively create thoracic extension
✔ Hold it as the bar leaves the floor
✔ Resist collapsing as load increases
🧠 20 patients par jour… mais pas assez de résultats ?
Si vous avez l’impression de courir après le temps,
ce n’est peut-être pas un problème de compétence…
mais de modèle.
🎓 Atelier GRATUIT – 22 février à 21h (France)
Avec Mai-Linh Dovan, fondatrice de Rehab-U
En 90 minutes, vous allez découvrir :
✔ Pourquoi la majorité des kinés restent surchargés et sous-payés
✔ Comment structurer des programmes de rehab sur 12–16 semaines
✔ Comment attirer des patients prêts à investir dans un accompagnement premium
🎁 Bonus : Cahier des 3 piliers + modèle de programme 12 semaines
Avec Rehab-U × Andrew, on vous montre comment passer de la séance fragmentée à des programmes structurés, progressifs et valorisés.
You don’t just need thoracic extension mobility — you need the strength to hold it under load.
But for many clients and patients, there’s a step before loading that often gets skipped:
👉 They can’t actually feel or actively create thoracic extension in the first place.
If someone can’t sense where the thoracic spine is, or doesn’t know how to extend there without dumping into the lumbar spine, adding load only reinforces compensation.
That’s why the first step is:
• Learning to differentiate thoracic extension from lumbar extension
• Actively extending the T-spine with intent
• Getting familiar with recruting those muscles - accessing that position before loading
🚀 Ready to build a rehab career that actually works?
Here’s the truth:
❌ Overbooked and underpaid in the clinic isn’t sustainable
❌ Free but broke in the gym isn’t either
The solution? Structured rehab programs
L that deliver lasting transformation.
In my FREE 90-minute Rehab Career Accelerator Workshop, you’ll learn how to:
✅ Create structured 12–16 week rehab programs that actually get results
✅ Attract premium clients/patients who happily pay for real outcomes
✅ Build a career model that gives you more freedom, income, and impact
📅 Date: February 22, 2026
🕑 Time: 12:00 pm Eastern (US & Canada) / 5:00 pm UK
This could be the turning point in your rehab career.
La structure, la progression et le retour à la performance ?
Cela nécessite un plan, pas seulement des rendez-vous.
Et c'est là le problème 👇
La rehab séance par séance ne te permet pas de réfléchir, de planifier ou de programmer.
On finit donc par prendre des raccourcis.
Les clients/patients stagnent.
Et tu t’épuises, même si tu sais que ce n'est pas la bonne solution.
Si tu as déjà ressenti cette tension, ce n'est pas toi le problème.
C'est le modèle.
Je décompose tout cela étape par étape dans un atelier gratuit sur la manière de créer des programmes de rehab personnalisés et périodisés, ainsi qu'une carrière qui les soutient réellement.
Recurrent ankle sprains and chronic ankle instability are associated with neuromuscular deficits, reduced capacity to absorb ground reaction forces and persistent plantar flexion weakness.
Using a wedge is a great example of a way to force the ankle to produce plantar flexion while controlling inversion, exposing the ankle combined positions and movements, not just neutral or linear ones.
These variations help:
✅build strength in vulnerable positions
✅ improve dynamic joint stabilization
✅and increase confidence on uneven ground
Structure, progression, and return-to-performance?
That requires a plan — not just appointments.
And that’s the problem 👇
Session-to-session rehab doesn’t pay you to think, plan, or program.
So corners get cut.
Clients plateau.
And you burn out — even though you know better.
If you’ve ever felt this tension, you’re not the problem.
The model is.
I’m breaking this down step-by-step in a free workshop on how to build personalized, periodized rehab programs — and a career that actually supports them.
One of the most consistent findings in chronic ankle instability (CAI) (from recurrent lateral ankle sprains) is a persistent deficit in plantar flexion strength.
Why that matters 👇
Plantar flexion isn’t just about pushing off — it’s a primary way the ankle:
• Absorbs ground reaction forces
• Decelerates load
• Transitions from dorsiflexion into propulsion
If plantar flexion is weak, especially at end-range dorsiflexion, the ankle struggles exactly where load is highest.
That’s why exercises starting from a deep dorsiflexed position are so important in post-injury rehab.
I’ve been training for 32 years.
(Yup — older than I look 😜)
I’ve never had back pain.
That’s not luck.
That’s belief, practice, and consistency around the idea that a strong back matters.
I deeply believe in earning strength, especially spinal strength. And yes, you have to earn the deadlift.
But when you do, it pays off.
I was a personal trainer throughout my entire studies in athletic therapy — and long after. Every single client I worked with earned a deadlift.
Not the same deadlift.
Not always a barbell.
But a deadlift variation that fit their needs, history, and capacity.
Because avoiding the hinge doesn’t make people more functional. Training it does.
And no, before anyone goes there, I’m not saying low back health is only about deadlifts (Liking apples doesn’t mean oranges don’t exist. Apparently this needs to be said. Social media logic is wild.)
Variability, recovery, movement quality, load, progression, they all matter.
But if I had to pick one movement that consistently earns its place in building a resilient, functional back?
The deadlift gets my vote.
02/06/2026
📣 NEW COURSE ALERT
I'm pretty pleased to launch the new BODY RECOMPOSITION MASTERY course on .academy
Rick has been part of our FSA team for a long time, he’s someone who’s been deeply immersed in strength training, coaching, and program design for a long time.
In this course, he bridges hard science with real-world coaching and dives into the things that actually matter for recomposition:
– hypertrophy and training structure
– metabolic flexibility
– hormonal regulation
– nutrition strategy
– recovery and lifestyle factors
But what I really like about this course is that it’s built for coaches.
You get case studies.
You get templates.
You get client-management tools.
So you’re not just learning what to do — you’re learning how to apply it confidently with real clients, across different profiles and goals.
If you want to coach body recomposition with structure, confidence, and real results, this is for you.
Body Recomposition Mastery is now live, launching at 40% off until February 11th at 11:59 PM.
Click the LINK IN BIO to take advantage of the offer
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Mai-Linh Dovan is a Certified Athletic Therapist and leading industry expert in functional rehabilitation. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Athletic Therapy and a Master’s degree in Exercise Science from Concordia University, where she worked in collaboration with the Department of Psychology and the Centre for Research in Human Development. With over 20 years of experience in clinical rehabilitation and strength and conditioning, she has developed a comprehensive and unique functional training approach with integrated rehabilitation.
She uses this approach with a diversity of athletes and clients from bodybuilders, powerlifters, CrossFit athletes, as well as athletes from many sports and recreational lifters struggling with various problems: recovery from cervical and thoracic fractures, low back and shoulder dysfunction, dysfunctional movement patterns. It has led many to unleash their full performance potential.
Mai-Linh is also the founder of Rehab-U | Movement and Performance Therapy, an online platform for innovative movement optimization and (p)rehabilitation tools and services for athletes and active individuals. The platform also serves as a resource for personal trainers, strength coaches, and fitness professionals.
It is using this innovative approach rooted in clinical strategies and geared towards prevention and performance, that Mai-Linh developed the Movement Optimization for Prehab and Performance Course. This course provides the principles to effectively assess and identify movement dysfunction as well as strategies, means and methods to build a rehabilitation- integrated intervention.
Découvrez Mai
Mai-Linh Dovan est Thérapeute du Sport agréée et une experte de l'industrie en matière de réadaptation fonctionnelle. Elle est titulaire d’un baccalauréat en Thérapie du sport et d’une maîtrise en Sciences de l’exercice de l’Université Concordia, où elle a travaillé en collaboration avec le Département de psychologie et le Centre de recherche en développement humain. Forte de plus de 20 ans d’expérience en réadaptation clinique et en entraînement, elle a développé une approche en entraînement fonctionnel complète et unique avec réadaptation intégrée.
Elle utilise cette approche avec une diversité d'athlètes et de clients tels que bodybuilders, dynamophiles, athlètes CrossFit, ainsi que des athlètes de nombreux sports et des gens actifs aux prises avec divers problèmes. Cela a permis à plusieurs de libérer leur plein potentiel de performance.
Mai-Linh est également la fondatrice de Rehab-U | Movement and Performance Therapy, une plateforme en ligne offrant des outils et services novateurs d'optimisation du mouvement et de (p) réadaptation, destinés aux athlètes et aux personnes actives. La plate-forme sert également de ressource pour les kinésiologues et professionnels de l’entraînement.
C’est en utilisant cette approche novatrice ancrée dans des stratégies cliniques et axée sur la prévention et la performance que Mai-Linh a développé le cours « Optimisation du mouvement pour la prehab et la performance ». Ce cours enseigne les principes permettant d'évaluer et d'identifier de façon efficace les dysfonctions du mouvement, ainsi que des stratégies, des moyens et des méthodes permettant de mettre en place une intervention avec réadaptation intégrée.
