Ascent Sports Rehab & Performance

10/09/2024

🎉 Pump N' Spice Fall Fit Connect – Join us for my homecoming celebration! 🎉

Get ready for a fun-filled event with games, prizes, networking, food, and beats. Don't miss out—be sure to RSVP if you’re planning to attend!

RSVP here: https://www.dynamisf.com/events/pump-n-spice

05/15/2023

Just another day in the office 💅🏻

I remember working for an insurance based clinic, being overloaded with clients, only being able to spend 5 min with them, wearing a white coat and dress clothes, and having no time for the gym. That's when I decided that I should work in a gym, spend as much time as needed with clients, and wear spandex everyday. 🤙

Lucky to share space with two organizations that strive to make our community better. Check them out 👇

07/26/2022

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After a weekend of dancing and urban hiking all over San Francisco, my hips definitely needed a tune up before jumping into my mid day workout. (Shown here at 2x the speed).

Tight hips can cause:
🦵Low back pain
🦵Knee pain
🦵Hip impingement
🦵Hip labrum tears
🦵Hip degeneration or arthritis

Give this a try and thank me later. 🫠

Ascent Sports Chiropractic shared a post on Instagram: "What did you do this weekend? 💃🧗🏽‍♂️🚴🏿‍♀️✈️ After a weekend of dancing and urban hiking all over San Francisco, my hips definitely needed a tune up before jumping into my mid day workout. (Shown here at 2x the spe...

04/07/2022

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If you don't move your hips they don't move for you.

Many people lose the ability to articulate their hips over the years. This leads to:
🏌️‍♀️Hip Immobility
🏌🏿‍♂️Hip Impingement
🏌🏽Hip Arthritis
🏌🏽‍♀️Hip Replacement
🏌🏻‍♀️Low Back Pain, Knee Pain, etc.

Regaining access to hip motion can be difficult at first! If it was easy, no one would have hip issues, right? This process REQUIRES that people get in their bodies and teach themselves something new.

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03/17/2022

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File this under: Things I never thought I'd put on the Internet. 🙈

Teeth grinding at night and stress leads to popping, cracking, pain, and dysfunction in the jaw. We can release the muscles in clinic for relief all we want, but then we must re-educate each side of the jaw on its role in stabilization and mastication.

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06/21/2021

Cupping v Myofascial Decompression?⠀
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Truth is that cupping techniques have been around for thousands of years across many diverse cultures. Traditional cupping has been used to help with illness, affect Qi, as well as musculoskeletal conditions.⠀
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Here with my partner in crime , we are using myofascial decompression cups with the overhead squat movement to address pelvic tilt and gait. What's more is that we can even know how many mm of Hg pressure we are using to either upregulate or downregulate different structures and slings in the body. Pretty sweet. 🍍⠀
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01/03/2021

What position are humans spending most of their time in this past year? 🪑⠀
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This puts us in lumbar flexion which aides in helping our postural muscles waste away never to be seen again. 💀⠀
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I like this movement because:⠀
🦂 Being on the ground is a safe way to play with low back extension and rotation ⠀
🦂 It requires full core and postural activation to achieve full range of motion⠀
🦂You can mark progress over time based on foot position ⠀
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✨It’s important to go up to the point of pain, but not beyond it. Always important to honor your body where it is. If difficulty is too great, as always, scale down. ⠀
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12/29/2020

One of my favorite training and rehab cues.
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Many people find their way to me when little movement inconsistencies creep their way into their training form. Layer on these inconsistencies rep after rep, day after day, year after year, and compensations and injury will arise. ⠀
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I adore training programs that allow for deload weeks (or months!) and allow for neural priming of the movement. ⠀
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It you want to groove a faulty movement pattern: ⠀
🧠Reduce the weight or resistance ⠀
🧠Slow down the movement⠀
🧠Practice correct patterning ⠀
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If you need a 6 foot tall friend to help with this process, send me a DM 👱‍♀️⠀
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11/28/2020

Lifting weights can either build your body up or break it down. Same goes for lifting kids! 🤸‍♀️⠀
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Join me with special guest as we lay out some key concepts for parenting in a posture that makes you stronger. 💪⠀
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Wednesday, December 2nd from 12-1230. Zoom link in the comments.
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11/19/2020

These days most people I see have severely deconditioned glutes. 🍑⠀
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What do they use instead? ⠀
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Quads, IT band 🏋🏻‍♀️⛹🏽🏌🏿‍♂️⠀
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What can it cause?⠀
🍑 Knee Pain⠀
🍑 Foot Pain ⠀
🍑 Low Back Pain⠀
🍑 Arthritis ⠀
🍑 Ligament Tears⠀
🍑 Poor Sports Performance ⠀
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Breaking people out of old and poor movement patterns is a TEAM effort. Practicing self release of the quad can help us get where we want to go FASTER. ⠀
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Peep how we down regulate the quad in today’s self Myofascial Release video.
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10/08/2020

Is the MRI the end all be all when it comes to the diagnosis and treatment of musculoskeletal injuries? ⠀
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To be clear, I refer out for MRI on a regular basis. It’s a valuable tool that help us distinguish between life threatening disease, impingement of the spinal cord, and a commonly herniated disc. I work closely with orthopedic surgeons to make sure we get the best result for the patient. ⠀
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On the flip side, it is common for people to come in with shoulder pain, get a diagnosis of labrum tear, and be presented with surgery as the first option. ⠀
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When I lived in Alabama, spinal surgery was common practice in the region. I took care of many folx that had segments of their neck fused together, discectomies, and rods put into their spines. ⠀
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I meet these people in my office because their initial symptoms came back. Find out why in today’s segment ☝️⠀
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