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12/19/2025

Farmer’s carries are a great way to build endurance of the forearm muscles if you are a baseball player looking to decrease elbow injury risk. I love how easy it is to scale this exercise by increasing your weight or time spent walking. You can also make it harder by taking fingers off of the weight, forcing you to use the muscles you use when throwing a baseball. Stay tuned for more exercises to improve forearm strength and decrease elbow injury risk in baseball players!

12/18/2025

Want to prevent elbow injuries in baseball players? Strengthen the muscles around the elbow!

We know that training the shoulder muscles helps prevent shoulder pain, but we struggle to prescribe exercises for the elbow. Follow along for the next few days where I will highlight some exercises and strategies that I use to decrease elbow injury risk. Check out the link in my bio for a blog post and longer video that gives much more detailed information.

12/15/2025

I wanted to give my opinion on the TJ Watt injury and some misconceptions around trigger point dry needling. Too often we don’t include subject experts in the conversations. What are your thoughts on dry needling?

12/14/2025

Do not neglect scapular mobility with your throwing warmup!

Plyo balls are a great way to improve scapular mobility, particularly with a heavier ball. Try feeling your scapula retract and protract around your body for a few repetitions before throwing. Do this as part of your warmup and it will translate into your regular throwing routine.

Often, physical therapists neglect sport-specific exercises. Rows, open books, and other exercises that I have shown are great, but if you want to improve your scapular mobility with throwing then you might want to throw. Many physical therapists are scared of incorporating plyo balls because they don’t understand them. They are a tool like anything else and can help athletes understand the feeling of scapular mobility.

Give these a try as part of your plyo routine and try to feel your scapula moving as smoothly as possible!

12/11/2025

Baseball players, learn how to actually stretch your shoulder if you have throwing pain!

Stretching your pecs can help with scapular and shoulder mobility. It helps you achieve a cleaner layback position and can even help with velo. However, most people don’t perform this stretch correctly!

Elevate your arm to around 90 degrees and do one arm at a time. Have the foot away from the wall in front. This prevents your back from extending. Perform a pelvic tilt to further prevent your back from extending and losing the point of the stretch. Shift your weight forward while looking straight ahead. Hold the stretch and take deep breaths. Try and stretch a bit further with each exhale. Hold for about 30 seconds and do it 3 times.

Most people let this lower back arch with this stretch and they lose the benefit of stretching their pecs. Staggering your feet and tilting your pelvis should prevent this.

Give this a try consistently over the off-season to avoid the early season shoulder pain with throwing. If you want more info, check out the link in my bio for a blog post and video about scapular mobility and arm pain in baseball players!

12/08/2025

How to understand pain from a physical therapist:

Red light means we have gone too far. Your body is not ready for this load or movement.

Yellow light means your body is not sure how to handle this movement. It could be too much but it could be pushing you out of your comfort zone to promote healing. Pay attention to how you feel for 24 hours. If your pain stays the same or decreases, you are probably fine.

Green light means your body is comfortable with the movement. This could mean that you are underloading and need to progress to make sure you are making changes.

Your physical therapist should be your guide during healing. I am constantly taking calls, texts, and emails from clients to determine their status and how they can progress their workouts. Find someone who can guide you on the process to make sure you are progressing responsibly!

12/07/2025

Want to prevent back pain⁉️

Try moving your back! Side bends are an easy way to stretch your back in a way that you can tolerate and load. We spend most of our life bending forwards and backwards, and sometimes we just need to mix it up.

Start with no weight but add weight to really feel a stretch and a little extra mobility at the end. Your back will thank you.

Want more information about how I treat back pain? Check out the link in my bio for a blog post and YouTube video!

12/06/2025

Here is a simple way to help with back pain!

Our backs love to move in all different ways. Most of us spend the day sitting at a desk. It is natural to be slumped forward when sitting, causing your back to flex. Spending some time in extension can help stretch the back and decrease tight muscles. It also helps it relax into different positions to prepare you for different movements.

Sometimes the answer to back pain or any other pain is just moving in different ways and giving your body some variety. Maybe you don’t need 2 sessions of physical therapy for 6 weeks? I see a bunch of patients for a single visit and give them some exercises and suggestions on movement. Sometimes that is all you need!

08/28/2025

What makes us the best option for physical therapy in Northern Virginia? Check out our 5 star reviews. If you want more info, check out our most recent blog post about what really sets Eclipse Wellness apart!

01/03/2025

I firmly believe the key to growth is stepping outside of your comfort zone. I guess I need to practice what I preach. I have spent the last 7.5 years as a physical therapist and strength coach. It’s time to add a new challenge: coaching.

This year I will be an assistant varsity baseball coach with Herndon High School. Thank you to Coach Frank and the staff for taking a chance on a guy who has spent a lot of time working with baseball players, but never in this capacity. Special shout-out to my friend Patrick who was a coach in the program and reached out to me about the opportunity. We played baseball in Herndon when we were 11 and now our lives come full circle.

Gandhi and a bunch of IG bios said “be the change you wish to see in the world”. Baseball rehab sucks right now. We need to do better. I can either sit on the side and complain about coaches or I can step up and try to help.

This is honestly a scary challenge, but I’m excited to see what it brings. For those of you who don’t know, I grew up a few miles down the road from Herndon High School and I was in the stands at the baseball field as a 3 year old cheering for my brother. Part of having Eclipse Wellness is getting to take unique opportunities and this is certainly that and more.

I would be remiss if I didn’t give a special shoutout to Sarah. When you have a 2 year old and tell your partner that you might want to do something out of your comfort zone that is going to take up a lot of your time and they respond with “I guess our son needs some Herndon gear” you know that you have the right partner.

This isn’t going to change much at Eclipse, other than the fact that our afternoons in the spring might be busy 😂 Thanks for all of your support, I couldn’t do this without the awesome community that we all have built together. Now let’s change the baseball landscape in Northern Virginia.

Go Hornets!

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109 Carpenter Drive Ste #130
Sterling, VA
20164

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Monday	7am - 9pm
Tuesday	7am - 9pm
Wednesday	7am - 9pm
Thursday	7am - 9pm
Friday	7am - 9pm
Saturday	7am - 5pm
Sunday	7am - 5pm

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