The Ask Mike Reinold Show

Heavy lifting builds the strength behind every jump and sprint. But during a grinding competitive season, all that mechanical load piles onto athletes who are already worn down from games and practice, and at some point it stops helping and starts hurting. So what if you could ke ...  Show more

We're taught to treat systematic reviews and meta-analyses as the gold standard. They sit at the top of the evidence pyramid, so when one lands in our inbox saying an intervention works, we tend to believe it and move on. But what if that instinct is exactly the problem?A new edi ...  Show more

If you've ever programmed rotator cuff work, you've probably hit the same wall this week's listener did. You start with the classic light band or dumbbell external rotations, everything progresses nicely for a few weeks, and then it just stops. Add a couple pounds and the movemen ...  Show more

If you treat young athletes, you have seen this note a hundred times. A 14-year-old gets referred for low back pain, and somewhere in the orthopedic report is the phrase "hamstring tightness," presented as if it settles the question. Tight hamstrings, tilted pelvis, cranky back. ...  Show more

Hamstring strains are incredibly frustrating. You get an athlete feeling great, they go for a sprint, and the muscle grabs again. We have all been there. It is the most common time-loss injury we see in running and field sports.For years, sports medicine professionals have debate ...  Show more