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The truth is, hip pain is an umbrella term. It can be adductor-related, inguinal-related, iliopsoas-related, pubic-related, or hip jointโrelated.
Missing that distinction means your treatment and/or your exercise selection โ will likely be off target.
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โ Localize where the pain is coming from.
โ Use tests like FADIR or Patrickโs test to differentiate hip vs SI vs adductor involvement
โ Once you know where the pain originates, you can direct your intervention precisely โ protecting the area while still loading what needs to be loaded.
Thatโs how you move from guessing to guiding your clientโs recovery.
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Youโve heard the saying โwhat your hands canโt hold, your back wonโt lift.โ
Just like grip connects your upper body to the bar, foot contact connects your body to the ground. If that link isnโt solid, your strength has nowhere to go.
Many lifters work on their feet in warm-up, but the second they lift โ toes come off the floor, or weight shifts forward or back, and strength is sacrificed for the bodyโs instinct to regain stability.
So before blaming weak glutes โ start with the feet.
Many clients/patients train on autopilot โ they squat, hinge, press โ without ever realizing their foundation is asleep. Shoes with narrow toe boxes or hours spent sitting slowly chip away at the ability to sense and control movement.
Give them the solution: start by waking up the foot:
โ Rolling a lacrosse or spiky ball under the base of the 1st toe, 5th toe, and heel (1โ2 min each foot)
โ Practicing toe taps โ lift, spread, and tap each toe individually (2x8 reps)
โ Building the foot tripod: keeping those 3 points (heel, base of 1st, base of 5th) grounded, and center weight within them โ not pushing into them
Theyโll gain instant awareness and stability, reducing strength leaks and minimizing potential sources of pain.
You can cue a perfect dead bug, bird dog, or Pallof press โ
โฆbut if you donโt know what triggers pain or what movement bias youโre dealing with, even the โbestโ exercise can make things worse.
๐งฉ Itโs not about the tools.
Itโs about how you use them.
Sure, there are โgo-toโ movements that work for many people โ but the truth is:
๐ The right exercise depends entirely on the person in front of you.
Low back pain isnโt a single problem.
It can be triggered by flexion, extension, compression, shear, or any combination of these โ each one needing a different approach.
So instead of chasing โmagicโ exercises, focus on:
โ Identifying pain triggers
โ Understanding movement biases
โ Building strategies that actually fit the individual
Because exercises are just tools โ and tools only work when used the right way.
Medball throws, swings, slams โ they all look great.
But hereโs the problem ๐
Most people jump straight to power, skipping the foundation of function and strength.
Rotation is one of the most complex patterns in sport โ itโs not just twisting your torso. Itโs a coordinated sequence of acceleration and deceleration through the entire kinetic chain.
So before going โall outโ with your medball, ask:
๐ Have you built the mobility, strength, and control to rotate efficiently?
๐ Can your hips, trunk, and shoulders absorb and release force in sequence?
In this article, I break down the 3 essential progressions to train rotation safely and effectively:
1๏ธโฃ Strength โ controlled loaded patterns
2๏ธโฃ Absorption โ deceleration under load
3๏ธโฃ Acceleration โ rotational power
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Mai-Linh Dovan is a Certified Athletic Therapist and leading industry expert in functional rehabilitation. She holds a Bachelorโs degree in Athletic Therapy and a Masterโs 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.
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Mai-Linh Dovan est Thรฉrapeute du Sport agrรฉรฉe et une experte de l'industrie en matiรจre de rรฉadaptation fonctionnelle. Elle est titulaire dโun baccalaurรฉat en Thรฉrapie du sport et dโune maรฎtrise en Sciences de lโexercice de lโUniversitรฉ Concordia, oรน elle a travaillรฉ en collaboration avec le Dรฉpartement de psychologie et le Centre de recherche en dรฉveloppement humain. Forte de plus de 20 ans dโexpรฉrience en rรฉadaptation clinique et en entraรฎnement, elle a dรฉveloppรฉ une approche en entraรฎnement fonctionnel complรจte et unique avec rรฉadaptation intรฉgrรฉe.
Elle utilise cette approche avec une diversitรฉ d'athlรจtes et de clients tels que bodybuilders, dynamophiles, athlรจtes CrossFit, ainsi que des athlรจtes de nombreux sports et des gens actifs aux prises avec divers problรจmes. Cela a permis ร plusieurs de libรฉrer leur plein potentiel de performance.
Mai-Linh est รฉgalement 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) rรฉadaptation, destinรฉs aux athlรจtes et aux personnes actives. La plate-forme sert รฉgalement de ressource pour les kinรฉsiologues et professionnels de lโentraรฎnement.
Cโest en utilisant cette approche novatrice ancrรฉe dans des stratรฉgies cliniques et axรฉe sur la prรฉvention et la performance que Mai-Linh a dรฉveloppรฉ le cours ยซ Optimisation du mouvement pour la prehab et la performance ยป. Ce cours enseigne les principes permettant d'รฉvaluer et d'identifier de faรงon efficace les dysfonctions du mouvement, ainsi que des stratรฉgies, des moyens et des mรฉthodes permettant de mettre en place une intervention avec rรฉadaptation intรฉgrรฉe.
