Your hamstrings aren’t “short”... they are just hanging on for dear life! If your ribs live flared... pelvis tipped forward... and weight sits on your toes... your hamstrings become the emergency brake that keeps you from falling on your face. They feel tight because they’re holding, not because they need magically became too short... That’s why you stretch, feel loose for 10 minutes, then the tightness snaps right back. Here’s how I fix “tight hammies” without chasing stretching that never work
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Your hamstrings aren’t “short”... they are just hanging on for dear life! If your ribs live flared... pelvis tipped forward... and weight sits on your toes... your hamstrings become the emergency brake that keeps you from falling on your face. They feel tight because they’re holding, not because they need magically became too short... That’s why you stretch, feel loose for 10 minutes, then the tightness snaps right back. Here’s how I fix “tight hammies” without chasing stretching that never work
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While I am a fan of utilizing Lymphatic Drainage Techniques with my post op athletes… The second I demonstrate how I use it, all the “lymphatic specialists” come out of the woodwork to tell me I’m doing it wrong. 🤷🏻‍♂️ “Too fast…too much pressure! No tools! Why the massage gun!?! That’s not how ———insert guru here——does it! I’m a —-insert guru cert here—- certified provider and this is so wrong!” Get your 🍿 and head to the comments 😅😅😅 For whatever reason, the lymphatics arena of therapy i
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While I am a fan of utilizing Lymphatic Drainage Techniques with my post op athletes… The second I demonstrate how I use it, all the “lymphatic specialists” come out of the woodwork to tell me I’m doing it wrong. 🤷🏻‍♂️ “Too fast…too much pressure! No tools! Why the massage gun!?! That’s not how ———insert guru here——does it! I’m a —-insert guru cert here—- certified provider and this is so wrong!” Get your 🍿 and head to the comments 😅😅😅 For whatever reason, the lymphatics arena of therapy i
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Mike Stella, ATC - Sports Rehab & Performance Coach on Instagram: "My “no ice for injuries” video stirred things up… which I expected. Two rebuttals keep coming up, so let’s unpack together. Arthrogenic muscle inhibition. And the hunting response. So let’s talk about both without pretending we’re surviving in the arctic. First, AMI is real. Joint swelling, pain, and irritation absolutely alter motor output. No debate there. But that’s exactly why I’m choosing interventions that improve the joint
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Mike Stella, ATC - Sports Rehab & Performance Coach on Instagram: "My “no ice for injuries” video stirred things up… which I expected. Two rebuttals keep coming up, so let’s unpack together. Arthrogenic muscle inhibition. And the hunting response. So let’s talk about both without pretending we’re surviving in the arctic. First, AMI is real. Joint swelling, pain, and irritation absolutely alter motor output. No debate there. But that’s exactly why I’m choosing interventions that improve the joint
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Not everything needs to be fixed. But when you’ve got a young, healthy, active person in pain... Telling them to just “get stronger” is lazy at best. Not wrong. Just lazy... I've had pro athletes share with me that a therapist has told them they have back pain because their core is weak....get that....PRO ATHLETES... Like, seriously? The fact of the matter is this...Strong people still hurt. This comes from the big push of the "Evidence" over everything crowd who can't think outside the abstract
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Not everything needs to be fixed. But when you’ve got a young, healthy, active person in pain... Telling them to just “get stronger” is lazy at best. Not wrong. Just lazy... I've had pro athletes share with me that a therapist has told them they have back pain because their core is weak....get that....PRO ATHLETES... Like, seriously? The fact of the matter is this...Strong people still hurt. This comes from the big push of the "Evidence" over everything crowd who can't think outside the abstract
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MRI for orthopedic conditions are MOST USEFUL in ACUTE injury situations… But for repetitive stress injuries, or persistent pain, they can sometime do more harm than good. Imagine having a nagging back pain…it’s not terrible, but definitely impacting your day to day. Sound familiar? Get the MRI, and doc finds a myriad of structural changes and convinces you that’s the reason you have pain. He recommends 💊 and surgery; mostly because he’s a surgeon, and just trying to help you with the tools ava
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MRI for orthopedic conditions are MOST USEFUL in ACUTE injury situations… But for repetitive stress injuries, or persistent pain, they can sometime do more harm than good. Imagine having a nagging back pain…it’s not terrible, but definitely impacting your day to day. Sound familiar? Get the MRI, and doc finds a myriad of structural changes and convinces you that’s the reason you have pain. He recommends 💊 and surgery; mostly because he’s a surgeon, and just trying to help you with the tools ava
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Mike Stella, ATC - Sports Rehab & Performance Coach on Instagram: "One of the hardest athletes to program for? Jiu Jitsu/ MMA athletes. No real, consistent off-season. Inconsistent competition schedules. And a culture that rewards “just train more” until the wheels come off. (Much respect you savages...) I talked about this on Mark Bell’s Power Project a couple years ago, because it’s a problem I see constantly in MMA and BJJ athletes. Athletes stacking: Hard rolls Open mats Extra drilling Plus
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Mike Stella, ATC - Sports Rehab & Performance Coach on Instagram: "One of the hardest athletes to program for? Jiu Jitsu/ MMA athletes. No real, consistent off-season. Inconsistent competition schedules. And a culture that rewards “just train more” until the wheels come off. (Much respect you savages...) I talked about this on Mark Bell’s Power Project a couple years ago, because it’s a problem I see constantly in MMA and BJJ athletes. Athletes stacking: Hard rolls Open mats Extra drilling Plus
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Why you feel stiff has nothing to do with your vibrating recliner...or lack thereof. Massage chairs are cool… But if that’s your whole game plan, it’s like putting duct tape over your check engine light... All fixed bro! Relief? Sure. But results? Not a chance. You’re not stiff because you’re broken. You’re stiff because your body is slowly solidifying because you don't move enough—especially in the ways your body needs. That aching neck, those tight hamstrings, that “locked-up” lower back? That
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Just because the narrative is broken doesn’t mean the method is. Manual therapy is a perfect example. The model itself? Pretty solid. Manual work can definitely help. For a short time: It reduces pain. It increases range. It gets people moving again with less fear. That’s been shown time and time again. But the narratives? Have been rife with a lot of fear mongering, misinterpreted literature, and well, some good ole, grade A Bullshit... No, we’re not breaking up scar tissue. No, we’re not “real
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Mike Stella, ATC - Sports Rehab & Performance Coach on Instagram: "Most people don’t need more treatment… they need more accountability. Pain isn’t always this tangled web or deep mystery. Often…it’s a reflection. Of your habits. Your choices. Your mindset. And yeah…your unwillingness to change. You can keep searching for the perfect fix… Or you can start acting like someone who actually WANTS to get better. If I offered you a Bitcoin, I bet you’d do the work… But not if your life depended on it
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We don’t change Tissue. We change Movement. Most people think when they have pain or injury, that the problem is solely rooted in their physical structure, tissues, or other “part” They seek to solve the problem with a hardware solution, which is sometimes warranted… but for many, is only a small part of the puzzle. Thats why MRI scans can often lead people into thinking they are doomed, because their structure is altered or damaged in some way. Which is why in many cases the MRI almost never ch
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Fascia doesn’t “remember” like it’s got a soul... It remembers like the crater in grandpas recliner he always sits in. Like a groove on an old vinyl. Like the wear pattern on your favorite pair of sneakers. What people think is some mystical mind-body connection is really just a simple biological truth: fascia adapts to repetitive load, and organizes along the co-contractions of muscles used in particular movement patterns. It thickens, reorganizes, and adapts along lines of force…just like musc
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Back in 2008, I was a young Athletic Trainer working at the University of Florida. And one of the guys I worked with was a skinny, quiet freshman named Christian Taylor aka @taylored2jump If you know track & field, you know that name. 3x Olympic Gold Medalist. Triple Jump royalty. But before the medals and the world stages… He was just another hard-working athlete dealing with nagging shin pain. And like most of us at the time, I thought I knew the fix: Dig in. Break up the tissue. Get him throu
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