Top 5 Fridays! Top 5 Blog Posts of 2016

Thanks for helping make 2016 one of MMT Blog's biggest yet! We had just short of 1 million visits this year! I still remember the milestone of 1 million hits about 2.5 years into blogging! Now we hit that annually!

In 2016 we launched the MMT Team of bloggers, many of whom instantly had huge hits that made this Top 5 list. I also launched my Untold Physio Stories short form podcast with Jason Shane, and Therapy Insiders Podcast had our biggest year yet!

Stay tuned for some big announcements in 2017, including partnering up for more courses under the MMT Brand (Corporate Wellness, Strength Training, Motor Control to name a few). We're psyched for 2017 and couldn't have made it this far without you.

5) 5 Ways to Improve Hip Mobility Without Stretching

sometimes stretching improves mobility - other times it does nothing but beat a dead horse
if stretching activates the neurotag association of strong stretch, discomfort or pain, often mobility does not improve
in this post, I go over ways to improve hip mobility using isometrics, repeated lumbar loading and more

4) Please Stop Pressing and Guessing or Poking and Hoping. Time to Eliminate Passive Intervertebral Assessment

does passive intervetebral (or any passive movement assessment) really enhance your clinical decision making?
or do you use it just because that's what you were taught?

3) Child's Pose as an Assessment

Dr. Christine Walker's debut on MMT was one of our biggest posts of the year (and ever really)
people like simple assessments that help you dictate treatment, and the Child's Pose falls into that category
check out Christine Walker's awesome Therapy Insider's Podcast here while you're at it

2) A Review of Red Flags

Sian Smale, one of MMT Team's most popular bloggers had a great review on Red Flags
it was a follow up an inspired by one of our first Untold Physio Stories podcasts here

1) 5 Common Mistakes for Neuromuscular Electrical Stimulation to the Quad

Dr. Dennis Treubig proves that people love physical agents! He had the number one post and several very popular posts on post op ACL, Ranting on SLR, a safer and better alternative to Codman's Pendulums.
If you like his posts, just click on his name after the title to see them all! congrats Dennis!

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Keeping it Eclectic...