Matt Kresnicka, PT, DPT, 10 Ragan Court, Washington, IL (2026)

No matter your sport, workout style, activity, I’m on a mission to keep you injury-free and get you back in your gym if you’re injured.

12/26/2025

Your hip keeps tightening up when you are doing faster, more demanding movements like running, cutting, heavier single leg lifts.

There’s a reason why it’s bothering you, and it’s probably not just because it’s “tight”.

The muscles that are supposed to stabilize your hip are probably too weak to handle those higher level demands. So when you run, cut, or push the pace, those muscles have to work really hard.

Afterward, they stiffen up because they are tired. That tightness is basically a fatigue response.

So the focus to fix this is not just loosening things up. 
It is making the hip more stable by strengthening it.

If you’ve ever seen a PT or chiro for this issue, they probably gave you some basic exercises — things like lying on your back or side and lifting your leg, and you were supposed to do 15 reps.

You probably ended up doing 25 or saying it’s not worth it because they were too easy. Those exercises are fine early on, but if you are blowing past the reps, they are no longer doing the job.

You need them to be harder and more specific.

✅ Challenging the hip in standing positions ✅ Adding resistance so the muscles actually have to stabilize ✅ Training the hip to control your leg the way it needs to during sport ✅ Building strength that carries over to running and cutting
Inside therapy, we will work on targeted stability and activation.

Outside of therapy, when you are in the gym, single leg work matters.

Single leg deadlifts. Single leg lunge variations. Once or twice a week. With real load.

That is how you build a hip that can keep up instead of tightening up afterward.

Please stop letting your providers dictate everything you do. Take responsibility for your progress and success in therapy or another other medical intervention for your overall health and well being.

Save this for when you need it.
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12/23/2025

Stop avoiding your pain acting like it’s going to get better without doing anything. Here’s what to do.

That pain you feel on the back of your wrist and hand usually comes from the small bones in the wrist not moving well.

When you bend your wrist into extension, those bones are supposed to glide.

If they do not, they run into each other and create the pressure you keep feeling on the back side of the joint.

That is the sharp ache that shows up every time you put weight through your hands.

Stretching the front of the wrist will help because those muscles are tight, but that is not the full solution.

The main issue is that the joint itself is stiff.

When the bones cannot move, the joint blocks you from getting into the position you need.

Instead of feeling a muscle stretch, you feel compression.

So part of your plan will be improving how the wrist actually moves:

✅ Mobilizing the small bones so they can glide ✅ Creating space in the joint when you bend your hand ✅ Letting you load your wrist without that back side pressure

Once the joint starts moving the way it should, the pain eases up and you can get into push ups and handstands without feeling like the wrist is stopping you.

Save this for when you need it. 
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12/22/2025

If you have been fighting your squat for months, depth disappears, everything feels tight, and somehow you end up doing a deadlift instead of a squat, there is usually a reason.

For some people, it starts at the ankles.

When your ankles are stiff and your knees cannot travel forward over your toes, your body has no choice but to send your hips back and your chest forward. That is not a squat. That is a hinge your body is forced into because it cannot balance any other way.

Here is the part most people miss:

If you have ever had knee pain, you probably learned to avoid bending your knees even when you could.

Your squat becomes knee avoidant, and over time that turns into a pattern that makes squatting feel impossible even when the joint is capable of more.

So the work is not just stretching. It is retraining.

✅ Teaching your ankles to move again ✅ Teaching your knees to bend again ✅ Teaching your hips to sit down instead of back ✅ Teaching your chest to stay upright ✅ Teaching your body it is safe to use the right pattern

When the joints move the way they are supposed to, the squat gets a lot easier and a lot less painful.

If this sounds like your squat, you are not broken. You just need the right plan and the right progression.

Save this for when you need it.

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10/14/2024

I completed the 30-mile trail run at the Farmdale Trail Run this weekend.

Shout-out to the awesome for running it with me and my buddy, Connor, for convincing me to do it in the first place.

The training, planning, eating, and competing were a huge challenge.

And I may lose a toenail…

But I’m thankful I completed it despite the sacrifices and setbacks.

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