Do you have shin splints with running? What about knee or hip pain? Lower back pain? Maybe all of them! Find out if your lack of ankle flexibility is causing it.

Mobility, Training, TreatmentWes HendricksAugust 14, 2017running, mobility, chiropractor, charleston, southcarolina, kneepain, backpain

You may have Flexible Hamstrings, but can You Control Them?

Athletes spend a lot of time in order to try to make their hamstrings longer or more flexible. While this is a great thing to be working on, unfortunately this is only one piece of the puzzle.

You Need To Improve Your Grip Strength

If you can’t hang from a pull-up bar EASILY for 60 seconds you need to work on your grip. Even if you can, you should still work on your grip! When you give that test a try make sure you wrap your thumb around the bar.

Athlete Highlight - Training not Treatment fixed his Sciatic Pain

Having chronic sciatic pain and back pain for a while due to a car accident, I needed guidance to get back into being active again. After training with Wes, It is the pain-free life I can have after training that lead me to come back for more. Also the 26 lbs I lost and fitting in my clothes better was encouraging too.

Stop Stretching your Hamstrings Incorrectly

Unfortunately for the majority of people they aren’t even stretching their hamstring, they are instead stretching their sciatic nerve. And just incase you didn’t know stretching nerves is a really bad idea.

Your Hip Flexion Stretching isn't Working

Poor hip mobility is without a doubt a cause for not being able to achieve a biomechanically sound squat. Where do we start then? I always start by addressing athletes hip INTERNAL rotation.

External rotation and flexion of the hip are easy and hip internal rotation is a better predictor of overall hip health.