
My pen never stopped moving all weekend, so it'd be impossible to share all the great takeaways, but I wanted to share a few more general ones:
- "Muscles don't take kinesiology. They violate the rules because they don't know the rules."
- "Neuromuscular control and performance is more important than muscle strength."
- "Just because you're wearing a muscle doesn't mean you're using it."
- "Find the muscle and use it. If you can't use it under controlled circumstances, using it functionally requires a lot of luck."
- "Doing things easily uses the little guys. Doing things big will use the big guys." (speaking of intrinsic vs large multi-joint muscles)
- "You get what you train."
- "There's no magic in an exercise unless you see what you want to happen happening."
- On mindful movement: "When a patient asks 'when can I stop doing these exercises?' I tell them when you stop taking a bath and brushing your teeth because you obviously don't care anymore."
- "If the patient doesn't take responsibility, we part company - there's no point."
- "I can't emphasize enough the importance of alignment with gravity."
- "What I had attributed many years to shortness, I don't believe any more is shortness. It's a relative stiffness problem - not fixed by stretching, but fixed by stiffening what's relatively flexible."
- "I firmly believe there are signs before symptoms." Followed by examples such as you don't wait 'till you have a stroke to get your blood pressure checked.
- "Identifying a pathoanatomic problem doesn't do anything to help you solve the problem."
- "If they taught med students like we teach PTs today, they'd say 'today we're covering cardiology. We've got beta blockers, transplants and antibiotics. Now you figure out who to use them on. We wouldn't want to tell you what we learned when we were old 'cause we don't want to stifle you're creativity'." with a hint of sarcasm ;-)
- "Evidence changes. We need to understand the underlying mechanisms."
- "I don't care how far you go, I just care how you get there."