It's that time of the year again! By that, I mean it's a holiday in the US, so the team needs to take a break from writing and shooting all our awesome content. If you missed any of it this year, here are our Top 5 Posts of the First Half of 2017.

5) Single Leg Rehab Considerations

• by Dr. Peter Malliaras of Tendinopathyrehab.com
• Peter's posts have been very popular and welcome on MMT Blog as they provide a great insight and clinically applicable information for Tendinopathy

4) Pain Free Subscapularis Inhibition

• need to improve shoulder elevation, but many of your go to techniques are uncomfortable?
• this is a great variation on a classic technique that uses PNF to make the technique pain free and greatly reduce perception of stretch and tone

3) A Novel Mobilization for Frozen Shoulder

• this was a recent but very popular post
• true frozen shoulders are slow responders and I have been guilty in the past just like many other clinician in trying to hurry the process along
• while typically we cannot drastically improve their mobility rapidly, we can modulate pain, decrease tone, and get them moving better in all planes with much less perceived threat

2) [CLINICAL PEARL]  A Novel Technique to Improve Lateral Shifts

• this was one of my favorite posts of the year as I discovered this technique as kind of a last ditch effort to correct an ipsilateral lateral shift
• I've since started this as an assessment for people with recurrent loss of ability to accept load in the LQ or with single limb stability issues (it's not just glut med weakness)
• I'll shoot that video soon as it's become part of my "chains" assessment

1) 5 Things That Should Be Retired from the PT Profession

• ahhh controversy never fails to be popular
• What does contributor Dr. Dennis Treubig think should be retired from the PT profession along with my quick list?

Thanks to everyone for reading this year, sharing, and all your comments and questions. Keep them coming and to everyone in the US or if you happen to have an upcoming holiday, have a great time with your friends and family!

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Keeping it Eclectic...

It's that time of the year again! Like the best TV shows from the 80s and 90s, it's a flashback episode because content recycling is easier than new content (coming again next week - don't worry!)

These posts have been some of our most popular so far, and I only wrote one of them! Special thanks to the MMT Team for producing such amazing content.

5) Technique Highlight: Functional Upper Thoracic Mobilization

• a quick and novel variation on upper thoracic mobilization
• done in WB and involves shoulder elevation and trunk rotation

4) 5 Things Clinician Overlook When Treating Rotator Cuff Repairs

• by Dr. Dennis Truebig, DPT
• just because the rotator cuff has been repaired, does not mean you shouldn't screen the cervical spine
• same goes for the thoracic spine
• stuck in phase 1? You still have plenty to treat!

3) Child's Pose as an Assessment

• by Dr. Christine Walker, DPT
• how you can screen multiple areas in a novel and threat free way

2) A Review of Red Flags

• via rising star Sian Smale, one of MMT's most popular contributors!
• read this post for a great review on red flags, and what to look for in serious pathology, nerve root compression, spinal cord compromise, and more!

1) 5 Common Mistakes for NMES to the Quads

• two posts in the top 5 for Dr. Dennis Truebig!
• it was a close race between this and Red Flags, but E-stim is apparently several hundred more views popular!
• this makes me think I should do a modalities blog and be 10 million times more popular

Thanks for reading as always, 2016 has been the biggest year for the blog so far, going multi-author, becoming Modern Manual Therapy Blog - but keeping the url for SEO reasons. 

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Keeping it Eclectic...

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Many of these scripts came back when I took less direct access patients. Here are some of my favorites from yesteryear.

Sorry for the rehash, but with a lot of new readers, it's good to go back to the archives once in a while. Here are my Top 5 Most Read or commented on posts by category.