Austin's injury recovery Blog

How to Instruct Transverse Abdominis Contraction
During a presentation on injury prevention, I taught a group of personal trainers how to instruct transverse abdominis contraction. If you’re in the Austin area and you’d like to learn how to prevent injuries during your workouts (for FREE), you can request a free...

Planks: Are You Using Abs or Glutes?
We are often helping patients understand how to do their exercises properly so they don't get hurt during workouts. And we sometimes provide exercise instruction for other professionals. In this video segment taken from a presentation I gave on injury prevention, I am...

How to Mobilize Your Thoracic Spine
We help lots of patients to overcome their mobility problems with a variety of physical therapy techniques. And we also sometimes teach personal trainers how to help their clients exercise without injuring themselves. This video is a segment from such a presentation....

How Certain Equipment and Exercises Can Cause Injuries
Some abdominal exercises can cause back injuries Certain abdominal exercises are often associated with back injuries for many people. If you're one of them, you've probably wondered what's going on. It's a question we answer often enough for patients in our...

Common Golf-Related Injuries
During a presentation on injury prevention I gave to some Austin-area personal trainers, someone asked about the most common golf injuries we treat in our physical therapy clinic. This video clip shares my answer, plus what contributes to those injuries. Need help...

Common Cycling Injuries and How to Treat Them
Injury prevention is a real mission for Carter PT, and I have been doing presentations about how to recognize the factors that contribute to injuries and address those issues before a problem occurs. In this video, I teach a group of personal trainers about some of...

How to Perform a 5-Step Injury-Prevention Screening
Injury prevention has become a passion of mine. so I have been doing presentations to different groups on how to use a screening to identify an injury waiting to happen. We also cover how to address the issue before a problem occurs. If you’re dealing with an injury,...

Identify Injuries Before They Happen – Presentation for Personal Trainers
Preventing the kind injuries I treat every day in my Austin physical therapy clinic has become a passion of mine. So I have been doing presentations to different groups on how to screen for an injury waiting to happen and address the issue before a problem occurs....