LENAuthor: Lenny Macrina
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Lumbar Spine Stress Injuries in Baseball Players
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Low back pain can be very debilitating in an athlete, especially in an adolescent baseball player trying to make it through his season. More specifically, I have noticed an increase in lumbar spine stress fractures in baseball players and it is quite disturbing and frustrating! I wanted to dive deep into this rabbit hole, as…
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Risk Factors for Recurrent Instability After a Bankart Repair Surgery
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Recurrent instability after a Bankart repair surgery is unfortunately very common. This paper looks to highlight the most common risk factors associated with recurrent instability. I thnk it’s valuable to understand these various risk factors so you can better educate your patients. It may also help clinicians be mindful of the people that may need…
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ACL Volume Changes over a Women’s Soccer Season
I’m a bit interested, confused and looking to seek more on this open access paper that just came out in March of 2019 looking at the effects of season-long participation on ACL volume in female intercollegiate soccer athletes. The title of the paper is: “Effects of season-long participation on ACL volume in female intercollegiate soccer…
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An Update on Diagnosing SLAP tears
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Diagnosing a SLAP tear is not easy We hear a lot about trying to diagnose shoulder pain and to be as specific as possible. It’s often difficult to differentiate SLAP (superior labrum anterior to posterior) tears from other soft tissue injuries of the shoulder. For a review of the different types of SLAP tears, check…
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Is Early Physical Therapy Safe After a Rotator Cuff Repair?
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Physical therapy is vital after a rotator cuff repair and continues to be common in an outpatient setting. Unfortunately, there’s no true consensus on when to actually begin PT. Is early physical therapy safe after a rotator cuff repair or should we delay PT to protect the healing tendons? Let’s dive into this and see what the research…
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Treating Patients with Low Back Pain
My thoughts on treating low back pain As many of you may know, I have been practicing physical therapy since 2003. Throughout that time, the clear majority of my patients have had injuries to their extremities. Yet, I somehow was able to ‘avoid’ treating patients with low back pain (LBP). As has been with most…
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Why you need “Feel” as a Physical Therapist
Just thinking…some recent observations of first hand experiences from the field of physical therapy.
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The Week in Research Review, etc 12-24-18
The Week in Research Review, etc 12-24-18 only had two posts to social media this week but hopefully two very helpful posts for your practice. The back pain post was a repost from a previous time but I thought it was very important to share it again. I also put a new post from my…
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The Week in Research Review, etc 12-17-18
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Not a lot this week…sorry folks. Focusing a bit more on other projects. The Week in Research Review, etc 12-10-18 included only 3 posts but they definitely made some waves. Especially my latest Instagram post on burn-out in the PT field. Check it out and chime in…it’s never too late to like a post and comment…
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The Week in Research Review, etc 12-10-18
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This week we’re still playing with formats and learning these Instagram changes. With that, in the week in research review 12-10-18, we discussed many topics that I wanted to share! Surgery vs Physical Therapy for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome View this post on Instagram A post shared by Lenny Macrina MSPT, SCS, CSCS (@lenmacpt) on Dec…
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Knee Bracing After ACL Surgery: What the Research Says vs What I See
I recently came across a Facebook post that discussed bracing immediately after an ACL reconstruction and I was intrigued. I read some of the comments and chimed in with my observations and opinions. In turn, a multi-platform discussion revealed many new details. I wanted to briefly share some of the research and the discussions that…
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The Week in Research Review, etc 12-3-18
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Hey everyone, The Week in Research Review, etc for this week has a new look, compliments of Instagram’s new algorithm. Hope the new format doesn’t throw you too big of a curveball (maybe you’ll like it better), so here goes… ACL Injury Rates Higher on Synthetic Turf than Natural Grass in the NFL Preventing…
