Integrated Rehab and Performance Center

12/30/2025

When we find specific joints are missing specific range of motion, we need to load the joint in a way that specifically calls upon and challenges that range of motion!

This is a great drill to add in to enhance hip internal rotation while strengthening the muscles around the hip joint that help control it.

On the lead side leg in the golf swing, this is extremely useful for building up tolerance and resistance to the lateral (side-to-side) forces in the swing to help prevent slide while increasing our potential for power and speed.

12/29/2025

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This week, we shared the most popular blog article of 2025. "The Real Cause of Chronic Low Back Pain in Golfers" was the most opened, shared, and clicked on article of the year. It was also the article I personally shared most with golfers who I have met and helped at club events like workshops and member-guests.

Also, check out my own personal favorite blog article of the year. "The Body Swing Connection" blog article exemplified the best part of Integrated Rehab and Performance Center. That is, how we integrate the physical restrictions with your swing faults and golf specific pain. YOUR golf swing is a doorway to understanding you pain and movement ability. At IRPC, we build a plan around integrating movement, mobility, and motor control improvements back into the swing!

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This blog addresses common sport and weightlifting injuries. Topics include nutrition, supplementation, rehab exercise, and performance training.

12/28/2025

Check out this clip from "Golf Podcast Episode 38: Joe Hallet from Vanderbilt Legends" discussing LPGA legend Ai Miyazato.

In this episode, we discuss everything related to golf rehab and performance. Learn more about how the pro's address a practice session, fitness, and rehab and recovery.

Full episode available on YouTube and Spotify!

12/27/2025

The lateral kickstand hinge.

This is a great drill for improving mobility at the hip, decreasing chronic tension in the hip joint and surrounding muscles, and building strength through the lower extremity.

For those with low back pain, hip pain, knee pain, or looking to improve their ability to efficiently drive force through the ground, this is a fantastic drill.

12/26/2025

Learning to decompress that the low back before or after a round of golf can be crucial to your success this year.

With recurring, chronic, or even new low back pain, a great place to start can be with creating traction or space for your vertebrae to move. To decompress the spine without external tech, just by using joint positioning and muscle activation, we can establish effective pain relief and restore key mobility. For a lot of golfers, this can be a crucial component to rehabbing their pain and preventing future bouts.

12/25/2025

Merry Christmas from Integrated Rehab and Performance Center!

12/24/2025

This is a great drill for driving length and stretch through the hip flexors while loading and contracting them.

The best way to make true changes around a joint and the muscles around the joint is by controlling and lengthening the muscles through load. This drill helps get the hip and pelvis into extension while loading the joint. This can be a helpful addition for anyone with low back pain, hip pain, knee pain, and any mobility limitation at the low back, hip, and pelvis.

Give it a shot after improving and working through hip mobility to help create long term changes here!

12/23/2025

When we clear up low back pain, we need to address the functional limitations still. That is, can you load through these joints while weight bearing without returning to old compensation patterns? This is a great drill to help pull a few key pieces together! -Hip rotation -Pelvic rotation -Trunk rotation -Knee stability -Balance Give it a shot!

12/22/2025

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Learn more about the #1 most prescribed and practiced movement at Integrated Rehab this year.

The hip shift and swivel is a versatile movement. We can work on hip mobility, hip capsule tightness, pelvic mobility, lumbar spine muscle tightness, rib cage and posture positioning, breathing strategy, and more!

Low back pain, hip pain, knee pain... we can benefit from this movement even through multiple diagnosis and chronic pain.

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This blog addresses common sport and weightlifting injuries. Topics include nutrition, supplementation, rehab exercise, and performance training.

12/21/2025

Take a step back and look at your golf performance from a bigger perspective. Go beyond a single trackman data point this off season and ask yourself...

Are you addressing your strength, mobility, and pain? Have you committed to practicing your short game? Can you reach the swing speeds you need to for the distance you are looking for? Is your swing efficient enough to repeat it?

Learn more about creating a well rounded golf swing in this podcast episode "Golf Podcast Episode 37: Ben Pellicani from Westhaven" available on YouTube and Spotify.

In this golf episode of the Integrated rehab and Performance Podcast, Dr. Nick talks with ben Pellicani about the evolution of golf instruction. From Harvey Penick's little Red Book to the introduction and advancement of Trackman technology, how has golf instruction kept up with the rate of change, access to new data, and interpretation of these tools? Get Ben's take in this episode.

12/20/2025

Try this his capsule opener.

This might look similar to a pigeon stretch, but there is a key difference. We are not searching for a big stretch and hold of the muscles around the hip here. Instead, this movement is designed to get deeper and effect the hip capsule. The hip capsule consists of the non-contractile tissue of the hip socket like the ligaments that help secure the joint.

It is important to make the distinction between muscle tightness around the hip joint and joint capsule restriction. When joint capsule restriction is the limiter, this move helps drive hip movement into the back and side of the capsule, allowing proprioception and tension to help improve the restricted regions.

12/19/2025

Working through shoulder pain can be challenging. We need to address the painful tissue, improve mobility at the shoulder and surrounding joints, and finish with challenging and integrating these movements into bigger patterns (so you stay pain free while exercising and golfing). This drill here works as a great way to combine and integrate all of the regions that help to move the shoulder.