Shoulder pain does not have to be complicated and long lasting.  Check out the P3 Sports Care system of treatment.

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P3 Sports Care, previously Orange County Pain Management, has been serving Southern California for over 5 years. Although many of our patients live right in the city of Huntington Beach, many of them will come from a great distance to receive our Active Release Techniques®, Chiropractic Care, and Rehabilitation. Our customer service is second to none; our patients always come first. Even patients who are afraid of going to a chiropractor love our style of care.

Serving the cities of Orange, Irvine, Villa Park, Mission Viejo, Fountain Valley, Santa Ana, Newport Beach, Anaheim, Placentia, Yorba Linda, Costa Mesa, Stanton, Westminster, Buena Park, Aliso Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, Lake Forest, Seal Beach, Long Beach, Sunset Beach, Fullerton, Brea, Laguna Hills, Tustin, and Huntington Beach.

Check out our other articles and information on Active Release Techniques® and Injury Prevention Assessments to see if it can help you or any of your loved ones get out of pain and prevent new injuries.

Check out the status of our one of a kind Triathlete Gym! We are striving to bring the best possible in and off season training tips, injury preventing exercises and performance programs!

Bootcamp does not have to be outside and it doesn’t have to be canceled because of rain or cold.  Check out our indoor bootcamp.

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P3 Sports Care, previously Orange County Pain Management, has been serving Southern California for over 5 years. Although many of our patients live right in the city of Huntington Beach, many of them will come from a great distance to receive our Active Release Techniques®, Chiropractic Care, and Rehabilitation. Our customer service is second to none; our patients always come first. Even patients who are afraid of going to a chiropractor love our style of care.

Serving the cities of Orange, Irvine, Villa Park, Mission Viejo, Fountain Valley, Santa Ana, Newport Beach, Anaheim, Placentia, Yorba Linda, Costa Mesa, Stanton, Westminster, Buena Park, Aliso Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, Lake Forest, Seal Beach, Long Beach, Sunset Beach, Fullerton, Brea, Laguna Hills, Tustin, and Huntington Beach.

Check out our other articles and information on Active Release Techniques® and Injury Prevention Assessments to see if it can help you or any of your loved ones get out of pain and prevent new injuries.

Check out the status of our one of a kind Triathlete Gym! We are striving to bring the best possible in and off season training tips, injury preventing exercises and performance programs!

Here is an example of the TRX Rip Trainer class we offer at our Facility in Huntington Beach

TRX also offers suspension training, we offer a similar product in the Cross Core 180, which allows for more instability for more challange!

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P3 Sports Care, previously Orange County Pain Management, has been serving Southern California for over 5 years. Although many of our patients live right in the city of Huntington Beach, many of them will come from a great distance to receive our Active Release Techniques®, Chiropractic Care, and Rehabilitation. Our customer service is second to none; our patients always come first. Even patients who are afraid of going to a chiropractor love our style of care.

Serving the cities of Orange, Irvine, Villa Park, Mission Viejo, Fountain Valley, Santa Ana, Newport Beach, Anaheim, Placentia, Yorba Linda, Costa Mesa, Stanton, Westminster, Buena Park, Aliso Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, Lake Forest, Seal Beach, Long Beach, Sunset Beach, Fullerton, Brea, Laguna Hills, Tustin, and Huntington Beach.

Check out our other articles and information on Active Release Techniques® and Injury Prevention Assessments to see if it can help you or any of your loved ones get out of pain and prevent new injuries.

Check out the status of our one of a kind Triathlete Gym! We are striving to bring the best possible in and off season training tips, injury preventing exercises and performance programs!

Trochanteric Bursitis (Hip Bursitis) can be troublesome if you dont have the proper plan of attack when treating it.  Here is some insight on how we treat it at P3 Sports Care in Huntington Beach.

Huntington Beach, Orange County

Enjoy!

aka: Pain on side of knee with runners

More new information on IT Band Syndrome and treatment of it… Enjoy

Sebastian Gonzales DC CSCS ART – Huntington Beach, CA

I love complicated cases.  A college football player had come a number of times for various injuries but one primary concern of his was an ache in the right side of his neck, which extended out onto the clavicle.  It was nothing he couldn’t live with but it had been apparent for about a year and was affecting his lifting and performance.

The first 5 treatments consisted of Active Release to the scalenes, levator scapula, and trapezius relieving the pain for only hours before it returned.  On the 6^th session, after a little “trouble shooting,” we encountered some success.  Feedback from the patient lead us to find an area of tenderness running in a diagonal fashion from the spine to the clavicle.  The muscle closest to the location and orientation is the Omohyoid.

Just a few passes of treatment on this muscle released the pain immediately, which has not returned.  Who would think a tiny muscle like the Omohyoid would be the cause of this athlete’s pain.

MORAL OF THE STORY

“Trouble shooting” and not just going through the traditional orthopedic and neurological testing will give more information, which may sold hard cases.  Listening to the patient is critical in the “trouble shooting” process.

1. Ask the patient to point on the area of pain with 1 finger
2. See if the pain can be increased or decreased with isolated movement to the surrounding the joints
3. Treat and re-test

Using this approach, we are able to solve majority of the injuries we see.

 
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P3 Sports Care, previously Orange County Pain Management, has been serving Southern California for over 5 years. Although many of our patients live right in the city of Huntington Beach, many of them will come from a great distance to receive our Active Release Techniques®, Chiropractic Care, and Rehabilitation. Our customer service is second to none; our patients always come first. Even patients who are afraid of going to a chiropractor love our style of care.

Serving the cities of Orange, Irvine, Villa Park, Mission Viejo, Fountain Valley, Santa Ana, Newport Beach, Anaheim, Placentia, Yorba Linda, Costa Mesa, Stanton, Westminster, Buena Park, Aliso Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, Lake Forest, Seal Beach, Long Beach, Sunset Beach, Fullerton, Brea, Laguna Hills, Tustin, and Huntington Beach.

Check out our other articles and information on Active Release Techniques® and Injury Prevention Assessments to see if it can help you or any of your loved ones get out of pain and prevent new injuries.

Check out the status of our one of a kind Triathlete Gym! We are striving to bring the best possible in and off season training tips, injury preventing exercises and performance programs!

I have been getting some questions lately about why I am so hot on suspension training systems such as TRX and Cross Core 180′s “War Machine,” as well as what the differences between different systems.

I’ll lay the reasons out and try to be as simple as I can. I sometimes go into too much depth and lose people on the main points

They require synergistic stabilizer muscles to work

In other words, in everyday life we are in an uncontrolled environment. External forces are all around us whether they be in the form of another athlete or slippery ground. Everyone encounters unanticipated forces and we need to be ready for them.

On traditional bulky gym equipment the machine fixates you automatically so you can move a weight. Remove the machine and you will have very strong “prime mover” muscles and severely under utilized stabilizer muscles.

Suspension trainers challenge more than one plane of motion at a time

Again go back to traditional gym machines… They usually work in one plane at a time. In sports such as running, movement is mainly in the sagittal plane but that is not all. In baseball much of the motions producing power is rotation or in the transverse plane. No motion is ever only using one plane of motion.

Suspension trainers provide the ability for eccentric rehabilitation for old and new injuries

Eccentric training has some good small scale research behind it for rehabilitation for sports injuries but personally I believe the reason why it has only been used for certain injuries is because it is hard to manipulate gravity and body weight to position the athlete accordingly. Suspension training provides a whole new ball game.

Suspension training gives working out real life applications

We have gone over this. Stability and outside forces are not challenged in traditional resistance training to the degree as it can be with suspension training.

What is the best type of suspension trainer?
As for what is the best type of suspension trainer, there are pros and cons of both. Actually TRX was the main developer and brought the concept of suspension training into the public eye and I think they have done a great job at creating a very user-friendly trainer. Door mounts, tree anchors, easily adjustable handles all make TRX the chose for beginners who are just getting in it or those of you who want to have a home suspension trainer.

The Core Core 180 “War Machine” boast having more challenge by having a pin and pulley system creating more instability to fight as you lift body weight. The handles are also adjustable but instead of an easy “slide and go” type of system, you need to master a simple knot instead. Not as simple for beginners. Essentially they are the same. If you place the pin to stabilize the War Machine, you have a “TRX”. If you pull the pin, you have an unmatched device, which eliminates your body’s dominant side.

Personally I have gone back and forth, about which suspension trainer is better to have within my facility.  TRX or Cross Core 180’s “War Machine.”  I feel what it comes down to is the user.  If you choose to buy a suspension trainer for your home, try out a TRX and a War Machine.  TRX gyms exist most people’s areas and a War Machine might be harder to come by but you might want to check your local MMA shop.

If you need more information/ videos etc on suspension training check out our website.

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P3 Sports Care, previously Orange County Pain Management, has been serving Southern California for over 5 years. Although many of our patients live right in the city of Huntington Beach, many of them will come from a great distance to receive our Active Release Techniques®, Chiropractic Care, and Rehabilitation. Our customer service is second to none; our patients always come first. Even patients who are afraid of going to a chiropractor love our style of care.

Serving the cities of Orange, Irvine, Villa Park, Mission Viejo, Fountain Valley, Santa Ana, Newport Beach, Anaheim, Placentia, Yorba Linda, Costa Mesa, Stanton, Westminster, Buena Park, Aliso Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, Lake Forest, Seal Beach, Long Beach, Sunset Beach, Fullerton, Brea, Laguna Hills, Tustin, and Huntington Beach.

Check out our other articles and information on Active Release Techniques® and Injury Prevention Assessments to see if it can help you or any of your loved ones get out of pain and prevent new injuries.

Check out the status of our one of a kind Triathlete Gym! We are striving to bring the best possible in and off season training tips, injury preventing exercises and performance programs!

Sebastian Gonzales DC, CSCS ART Huntington Beach CA

Ever since I can remember I would look for ways to incorporate chiropractic, muscle work, and strength training altogether. However traditional strength training encompasses lifting large amounts of weight within unsupervised gyms. Most of the time it can cause flare-ups of common overuse types of injuries even majority of sports injuries. What I was looking for was a unique way to incorporate these 2 worlds. There’s a few things I found to be useful in my quest for the perfect rehabilitation process.

What I found is that majority of overuse injuries or even small terrors which occurring of with overuse injuries respond very well towards lengthening contractions. Lengthening contractions are commonly known as Eccentric contractions.  The shortening contractions you do at the gym most time with curls or any other type of workout is in concentric, shortening contraction. Everything I’ve really found leads me to believe most of these small tears occur within the elongated position of the muscle as it is trying to fight a lengthening contraction.  What I feel would be useful is to actually train the muscles with a within a controlled environment how to effectively withstand lengthening contractions which occur in every motion.

For this reason eccentric training is most useful during their early recovery process of an injury.

Instability train I think is the next step after that you talk about that within the different article.

Look over some of the brief research studies, which have been conducted for the eccentric training. Although they are short and sample sizes, I think there is a lot of evidence out there to suggest this is a very effective way of training overuse and tears within sports injuries. Personally what I’ve seen in my own facility is people respond very well to this type of training.

To learn more about how to prevent sports injuries check out our BOOK

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P3 Sports Care, previously Orange County Pain Management, has been serving Southern California for over 5 years. Although many of our patients live right in the city of Huntington Beach, many of them will come from a great distance to receive our Active Release Techniques®, Chiropractic Care, and Rehabilitation. Our customer service is second to none; our patients always come first. Even patients who are afraid of going to a chiropractor love our style of care.

Serving the cities of Orange, Irvine, Villa Park, Mission Viejo, Fountain Valley, Santa Ana, Newport Beach, Anaheim, Placentia, Yorba Linda, Costa Mesa, Stanton, Westminster, Buena Park, Aliso Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, Lake Forest, Seal Beach, Long Beach, Sunset Beach, Fullerton, Brea, Laguna Hills, Tustin, and Huntington Beach.

Check out our other articles and information on Active Release Techniques® and Injury Prevention Assessments to see if it can help you or any of your loved ones get out of pain and prevent new injuries.

Check out the status of our one of a kind Triathlete Gym! We are striving to bring the best possible in and off season training tips, injury preventing exercises and performance programs!

Huntington Beach/ Fountain Valley CA

Again the diagnosis of IT Band Syndrome walked in but after a few sessions of manual therapy, the patient had not improvement.  If you have been following the P3 Sports philosophy, by now you should know improvement with most all sports injuries should be noted after only a few sessions if the correct treatment is being applied to the offending muscles etc.

This runner started treatment unable to run more than 3 miles without experiencing an ache in the side of his left knee.  With the Nike Full Marathon coming in 3 months, there was plenty of time to correct the issue but it had been going on for a few months now.  Foam rolling and stretching were not working either.

After treatment #4 and minimal success, an area of tenderness and swelling was found just to the front (anterior) side of the IT Band insertion, around the lateral side of the lateral quadriceps muscle (vastus lateralis).  Treatment on the area yielded immediate success on a post treatment run.  The patient was able to run more than 3 miles without pain.

Over the course of the next few sessions, the runner had started a recommended hip dominant strengthening/ stability program.  He attributes his continued success and improvement to not only the soft tissue work but also the aggressive exercises he is doing.  He’s plan is to keep this type of treatment up till the longer miles of his training begin.  At that point his focus should be on aerobic activity with only one day of resistance training mixed in after is long runs.

MORAL OF THE STORY

Runners continually look for answers about injuries on forums and other peer sites but fact is not all injuries are the same.  This runner in the case presented above is the perfect example of someone who was told by his peers this issue was IT Band Syndrome, when in fact it was not even close.  Constant home stretching and foam rolling did not resolve this issue.

Do yourself a favor and visit a professional who runs him or herself.  Someone with years of personal experience in the field of running and endurance sport injuries can only help you get back to your training faster.

For more information about treatment of sports injuries check out the P3 Sports Care ebook!

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P3 Sports Care, previously Orange County Pain Management, has been serving Southern California for over 5 years. Although many of our patients live right in the city of Huntington Beach, many of them will come from a great distance to receive our Active Release Techniques®, Chiropractic Care, and Rehabilitation. Our customer service is second to none; our patients always come first. Even patients who are afraid of going to a chiropractor love our style of care.

Serving the cities of Orange, Irvine, Villa Park, Mission Viejo, Fountain Valley, Santa Ana, Newport Beach, Anaheim, Placentia, Yorba Linda, Costa Mesa, Stanton, Westminster, Buena Park, Aliso Viejo, Rancho Santa Margarita, Lake Forest, Seal Beach, Long Beach, Sunset Beach, Fullerton, Brea, Laguna Hills, Tustin, and Huntington Beach.

Check out our other articles and information on Active Release Techniques® and Injury Prevention Assessments to see if it can help you or any of your loved ones get out of pain and prevent new injuries.

Check out the status of our one of a kind Triathlete Gym! We are striving to bring the best possible in and off season training tips, injury preventing exercises and performance programs!