Co-Presenters at the 2011 BSMPG Summer Seminar, Dr. John DiMuro and Mark Toomey return to Boston in May for the 2012 BSMPG Summer Seminar for a series of lectures that are sure to provide attendees with a number of monumental "ah-ha" moments as they show with fluoroscopy EXACTLY what is happening during exercises in both your rehabilitation and performance training programs.  

The difference between what you thought was happening during simple exercises and what is actually occuring at each joint will have you thinking twice before you prescribe your next exercise program or therapeutic intervention.

Click HERE to listen to a recent interview with Dr. DiMuro and Mark Toomey on SportsRehabExpert.com

Dr John DiMuro DO, MBA

Dr. DiMuro is a Board Certified Anesthesiologist and Pain Medicine expert who specializes in advanced interventional pain treatments for all types of pain conditions. He grew up in central New Jersey prior to attending medical and business school in Philadelphia . He has an M.B.A. in health care management from St. Joseph 's University and completed his internship at the Tampa Bay Heart Institute. He was chief resident during his Anesthesiology residency at Georgetown University in Washington , D.C. prior to completing a pain medicine fellowship at the world-renowned Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York City . He currently serves on the Carson Tahoe Hospital Cancer Committee. He continues to work in private practice and lectures nationally for the Kimberly Clark Company and Boston Scientific.

Mark Toomey, Sr RKC, CSCS

Mark Toomey is a fitness instructor from Reno , Nevada . He serves as a Subject Matter Expert (SME) in fitness and conditioning for the United States Navy and the United States Marine Corps. He is the Director of Operations for Dragon Door Publications, a producer of cutting edge material on strength and conditioning and acts as a Senior Instructor for the RKC, the first and largest entity specializing in kettlebell and body weight exercise instruction. Mark is an NSCA Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist and a certified CK-FMS practitioner.

Be sure to register for the 2012 BSMPG Summer Seminar today before they sell out!

Congrats to the University of Kansas Men's Basketball team and Strength & Conditioning coach, Andrea Hudy for their return trip to the 2012 Men's Final Four!

Learn how the Kansas Basketball team was able to power through the competition in the Big 12 and now find themselves in the Final Four by attending the 2012 BSMPG Summer Seminar and attending lectures from the nations top basketball minds including Jayhawk Strength Coach, Andrea Hudy.

Seats are limited for this event.

Don't miss out on this lecture as well as lectures from other top professionals in both Sports Performance and Medicine throughout the weekend including keynote speaker Craig Liebenson!

See you in May!!

ANDREA HUDY

University of Kansas

Topic: An Overview of Kansas Basketball Strength & Conditioning

Andrea Hudy joined the Kansas staff as the Associate Director of Strength and Conditioning in September 2004. She was promoted to Assistant Athletics Director for Sport Performance in July 2008. Since her arrival Hudy has handled the strength and conditioning responsibilities for the Kansas Basketball.

Hudy came to Kansas after nine and a half years at the University of Connecticut, where she worked closely with the Huskies' national champion men's and women's basketball teams. In all, Hudy was part of eight national championship teams while at Connecticut - two men's basketball; five women's basketball; and one men's soccer.

Including the seven Jayhawks that have been drafted in the NBA, she has worked with 25 former student-athletes who went on to play in the NBA. A native of Huntingdon, Pa., Hudy was a four-year letterwinner in volleyball at Maryland where she graduated in 1994. Her freshman season at Maryland, she was a member of the 1990 ACC volleyball championship team.

Hudy earned her Bachelor of Science degree in Kinesiology at Maryland and her Masters in Sport Biomechanics from Connecticut. She is a certified strength and conditioning specialist by the National Strength and Conditioning Association and a USAW Level I Coach.

Andrea Hudy has worked with 25 NBA players (current and former)

Cole Aldrich, Kansas
Ray Allen, UConn
Rashad Anderson, UConn
Hilton Armstrong, UConn
Darrell Arthur, Kansas
Josh Boone, UConn
Denham Brown, UConn
Scott Burrell, UConn
Caron Butler, UConn
Mario Chalmers, Kansas
Sherron Collins, Kansas
Khalid El-Amin, UConn
Rudy Gay, UConn
Ben Gordon, UConn
Richard Hamilton, 

Xavier Henry, Kansas

Darnell Jackson, Kansas

Travis Knight, UConn
Keith Langford, Kansas
Donny Marshall, UConn
Aaron Miles, Kansas
Emeka Okafor, UConn
Brandon Rush, Kansas
Wayne Simien, Kansas
Charlie Villanueva, UConn
Jake Voskuhl, UConn
Marcus Williams, UConn
Julian Wright, Kansas
Marcus Morris, Kansas
Markieff Morris, Kansas
Josh Selby, Kansas 

Readings from last week.

Enjoy!

Cold-Water Immersion for Preventing and Treating Muscle Soreness After Exercise  

Predictive Factors for Ankle Sprain  

Assessing the SI Joint   

Don't forget to sign up for the 2012 BSMPG Summer Seminar featuring Dr. Craig Liebenson along with 14 other leaders from the worlds of sports medicine, performance and hockey/basketball specific training!

by Art Horne 

I recently travelled to Minnesota to visit a few friends and spend time with the strength coaches from both the Minnesota Timberwolves and the University of Minnesota.  If you’ve ever been to Minnesota you know that packing a winter jacket is a must and this trip this was clearly not the exception!

My first stop was with Cal Dietz from the University of Minnesota.  I’ve mentioned Cal’s new book, Triphasic Training a number of times before, but sitting down with Cal in front of a whiteboard and reviewing his training philosophy gave me a new appreciation and a monumental “ah ha” moment for the three phases of muscle action.

Excerpt from Cal’s book: Preface p. VII

ALL DYNAMIC MUSCLE ACTION IS TRIPHASIC! 

That one simple sentence is what ties every sport together and allows all athletes to be trained using the same method, yielding the same results.  It is what this entire book is about.  Understanding the physiologic nature of muscle action taking place during dynamic movements gives you, the coach, a foundational training method that can be applied to every sport.  Couple this method with a periodization schedule that can be altered to fit with any training time frame and you have the tri-phasic undulating block method.

In a very brief and basic explanation that will be expanded upon at length in later chapters, the triphasic nature of all dynamic movement can be broken down into three phases:

1)   Eccentric phase: This is the deceleration or lowering portion of the movement.  It is associated with muscle lengthening.  During this phase, kinetic energy is absorbed and stored in the tendons of the muscle structure to be used during the stretch reflex.

2)   Isometric phase: This is where the mass, or athlete, comes to a complete stop before being accelerated in a new direction. (This is actually governed by Sir Isaac Newton’s Laws of Motion. More on that and physics later.)

3)   Concentric phase: This is the acceleration of an athlete or mass. It is associated with muscle shortening.

As the adage goes, a chain is only as strong as its weakest link.  If your training program consists solely of methods that train the concentric portion of dynamic muscle action, your athletes are heading into the season with a chain consisting of one strong link and two weak links.  This book is designed to show you how to develop the other two phases of dynamic human movement with a periodization model that will make all three links strong and optimize the performance of your athletes. Remember that:

            ATHLETIC MOVEMENT = DYNAMIC MOVEMENT = TRI-PHASIC MOVEMENT

Now, for the very large majority of us, “triphasic” muscle action is not new. In fact, if you were to look at your college anatomy and physiology books it might be discussed within the very first chapter, but looking at your athlete’s strength programming I’d bet you’ll find it (or at least the isometric and eccentric portions) as scarce as tourists wearing shorts and a t-shirt during a Minnesota winter!  Sure you’ll find some isometric holds or eccentric tempos from time to time but rarely will entire phases be dedicated to developing these qualities.  And even more rare would be finding these qualities developed or emphasized within a sports medicine rehabilitation program!!

With close to 400 pages of information along with sample programs, Cal’s book leaves no preverbal stone unturned.  The addition of video links to each exercise in each sample program and video explanations and other recorded presentations throughout the book makes Triphasic Training one of the most complete training books I have ever read-watched-(and stole from)!

Whether you work in the performance arena and train elite athletes or a sports medicine clinic working with athletes looking to return to activity, Triphasic Training is a must read and will immediately impact each and every athlete you work with!

See Cal Dietz present at the 2012 BSMPG Summer Seminar May 19-20^th in Boston.

Register today before seats are sold out!

Recommended readings from this past week in Sports Medicine and Performance.

Enjoy! Remember to register for the 2012 BSMPG Summer Seminar, May 19-20 in Boston MA.  Seats are limited.

The Brain: How The Brain Rewires Itself 

Vitamin D and Athletic Performance  

Variability in Leg Muscle Power and Hop Performance After Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction    

by Art Horne

Over the last five years the landmine has become a fixture in almost every strength training center across the country.  Although this piece of equipment surely has its merits when it comes to developing ground based and functional core strength, many performance coaches currently use it for only a handful of exercise selections with the majority of exercise variations coming from handle selections or foot position only, and not a true change in movement pattern or muscle emphasis.  At a cost of around $250, performance coaches need the landmine to become a one stop functional resource – and now they can!

Exercises for the Landmine by SB Coaches College featuring Shawn Windle of the Indiana Pacers, demonstrates exercise variations ranging from kneeling or beginning exercises to more dynamic multi-joint and multi-planar exercises.  Many of the variations and exercises demonstrated within this video I never thought could be used with the landmine including the snatch, deadlift variations and standing rotational press.

With an endless number of exercises and variations demonstrated throughout this video with key points discussed by Shawn Windle, this video is a must for coaches looking to purchase a landmine for their performance center in the near future and for all those that are currently using this piece of equipment on a limited basis only.

See Shawn Windle present at the 2012 BSMPG Summer Seminar May 19-20^th in Boston.

Register today before seats are sold out!

I recently took part in a workshop where both manual and instrument assisted soft tissue therapy were heavily promoted as the gold standard in plantar sided foot pain presentations. While certainly such therapeutic interventions as Active Release Techniques and Graston Technique may act as positive adjuncts in the management of such cases, I often find myself using exercise interventions with relatively more rapid results. As always, patient management should always be context dependent but this is what I’m finding.

Interestingly, when therapists do consider exercise interventions, heel raises/lowers off stairs seem to be the “exercise of choice”. Often such presentations are acute or “hot” and based on Craig Purdam’s work on tendinopathies, such exercises may be too advanced for significant progress to be made.

Now before I introduce some alternative exercises, I’d like to address the “One Toe Syndrome”. Patients with plantar sided foot pain, especially women for some reason, often present with this “syndrome”. They may indeed have five toes, as most of us do, but if you look closely the toes actually function as one unit rather than five individual units.

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The "One Toe" Syndrome

Continue to read this article by Jeff Cubos by clicking HERE.

Remember to Save the Date for the BSMPG 2012 Summer Seminar - May 19-20th in Boston MA.

Although a trip to sunny Monaco sounds nice, many of us just aren't able to make a trip to attend a sports medicine conference there.  But don't worry - four of the presentations regarding core training, influences, and screening from the SPORTS INJURY PREVENTION SEMINAR held there in 2011 can be found here.

Enjoy!

Trunk Motor Control and its influence on running mechanics

Core Training to Prevent Hamstring/Groin Re-injury

Hip Muscle Training to Prevent Low Back Pain

Development of Large Scale Screening Programs Assessing Core Stability for Injury Prevention

Remember to Save the Date for the BSMPG 2012 Summer Seminar - May 19-20th in Boston MA. Registration is open but seats are limited!

Check out three of John Berardi's previous nutrition articles here:

EATING FOR INJURY RECOVERY

WEIGHT GAIN FOR THE BASKETBALL ATHLETE

EATING BEFORE, DURING, AND AFTER COMPETITION

Remember to Save the Date for the BSMPG 2012 Summer Seminar - May 19-20th in Boston MA. Registration is open but seats are limited!

In 2011, BSMPG invited the titans of Sports Medicine and Performance to Boston for the largest conference of its kind, and many attendees left asking the question, "how could you ever top that speaker line-up?"

Well, we did.

BSMPG is proud to announce May 19-20, 2012 as the selected date for Sports Medicine and Strength professionals to desend upon Boston MA for another monster conference! So how could we ever top last year's speaker set? Let's just say that we asked last year's speakers who they wanted to hear and we got em! As we did last year, this seminar will be divided into three distinct educational tracks including a Hockey focus, a Basketball Focus, and a clear Sports Medicine/Rehabilitation Track with Keynote Speakers throughout the weekend bringing each track together for common lectures. Attendees may choose to stay within one track throughout the entire weekend or mix and match to meet their educational needs. Remember to save the date now - you won't want to miss another great summer seminar presented by BSMPG.

Date: May 19-20, 2012

Location: Boston MA. Campus of Northeastern University

Agenda: Click HERE to view

Get to know Keynote Speaker at the 2012 BSMPG Summer Seminar, Craig Liebenson below in an interview by Everything Basketball: