Real People.
Real Movement.

A competitive runner came to me after two years unable to compete due to plantar fasciitis. She'd seen multiple physiotherapists with no lasting results. Every treatment had focused on the same place: the foot.

That's the obvious approach. It's also the wrong one.

I didn't treat her foot. I looked at why her foot was moving wrong in the first place. What I found was restricted internal rotation in her right hip. Because of that restriction, her foot couldn't complete its natural movement cycle — so it was compensating, over and over, on every single stride. Thousands of reps a day, every day. The plantar fascia was taking a load it was never designed to handle.

We corrected the hip restriction. We didn't touch the foot directly. Once the hip started moving as it was supposed to, the foot could do what it was designed to do — and the excessive load on the plantar fascia disappeared.

A professional golfer came to me after tearing his left oblique. He'd lost significant club speed and couldn't rotate properly through his swing. He'd been doing rehabilitation work — the standard protocol — but wasn't getting back to where he needed to be.

The obvious fix would have been to work the oblique directly. Strengthen the torn muscle. Get it back to where it was. But that wasn't the real problem.

What I found was that he was "stuck in inhalation." He couldn't fully exhale — his ribcage was locked in an expanded position, which kept his core in a constant state of tension and robbed him of rotation. You can't create power through a rigid system. The oblique tear was a symptom of deeper dysfunction, not the cause of it.

I started by improving hip mobility — both internal and external rotation — and taught him how to breathe fully again. Once he could get a complete exhale, his obliques began functioning the way they were designed to. With better stability and a greater range of motion, he had more to accelerate through. The swing became more efficient. The power came back.

One of my favorite clients is a 75-year-old golfer who came to me simply wanting to improve his balance. He never mentioned his chronic left knee pain — he'd lived with it so long he'd stopped thinking of it as fixable. Some things you just accept.

What I saw was a man who couldn't get into his left hip at all. He wore orthotics, was heavily one-sided, and had internally rotated femurs with externally rotated feet — meaning almost every movement he made was mechanically crooked. His body had found its own way to function despite all of this, but it came at a cost. Every step, every swing, every moment of balance was being negotiated by a compromised system.

I designed a program to strengthen his feet, reduce his reliance on the orthotics, and shift his center of mass back toward the left. The goal was to give him back the hip mechanics he'd lost — so his balance could improve because his mechanics had improved.

Within a month his balance had improved significantly. He's now pushing 280 pounds on the sled — a number that would surprise most people half his age.

Then he mentioned, almost as an afterthought, that his knee pain had gone away. That's when I found out he'd had it for years. He'd never brought it up because he didn't think anything could be done about it. Once the hip mechanics were restored, the knee — which had been absorbing load it was never supposed to — finally got a break.