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Dr. Garrett Kuhlman, DC, CCSP is a sports chiropractor that has a clinic called Elite Movement Chiropractic Clinic. Dr. Garrett Kuhlman talks to your host Blake Bowman about techniques for rehab, the body from a holistic standpoint, various exercises to improve movement, and common misconceptions about chiropractic procedures and the contributors to chronic pain.
Episode Highlights:
- Dr. Garrett Kuhlman talks about his experience in strength, conditional, and as a sports chiropractor.
- Garrett Kuhlman explains fascial lines to understand movements as documented by Thomas Myers.
- Your body will compensate until it can’t.
- What is the superficial backline?
- What techniques does Kuhlman utilize for rehab?
- Lymph follows a lot of the Chinese meridians and acupuncture points.
- The body is a holistic system of systems.
- What are the most common dysfunctions that Dr. Garrett Kuhlman comes across in people that are wrecking their movement patterns or contributing to their pain?
- What is “The Bird Dog” exercise?
- Just because you have a ripped six-pack doesn’t mean you have a strong core.
- Keep variety in your exercises and movement patterns.
- What are his thoughts on anti-rotation exercises?
- Unfortunately, we tend to only focus on working out the muscles that we can see from a vanity perspective.
- Running is powerful because we have these spiral lines and it takes some of the work off the muscle and places it on the fascial lines.
- What is Garrett Kuhlman’s problem with traditional chiromatic manipulations?
- More strength resilience education is needed in the medical field.
- When you can no longer do the things that you love is when you truly become old.
- Healthcare is a proactive process, not just a passive process.
- The exit to treatment is strengthening.
3 Key Points:
- Fascial lines are lines of connective tissue that run throughout the body. They are found through dissection cadaver dissections. There are seven different lines that have been found to run through the body.
- For knee pain look at the ankle and the hip. For lower back pain look at glutes and the thoracic spine. It is always the muscles and joints above and below the joint where the pain is.
- The Spiral Line starts up in the shoulder on the backside and rotates down across your core down to the front side of your legs and the backside as well. Rotation is where we create power.
Tweetable Quotes:
- “I’m a sports chiropractor. I focus a lot on functional movement, rehab, basically, all things movement is what I try to work with my patients on. My original background was strength and conditioning.” - Garrett Kuhlman
- “I’m a chiropractor. But I do a lot of PT rehab and functional movement and corrective exercise. I just find that, that is really powerful when linked with the chiropractic side of things.” - Garrett Kuhlman
- “Where you feel the pain is not necessarily where you have the problem. And I think our medical system, and to a degree are rehab system, are focused on the area that hurts” - Garrett Kuhlman
- “Your brain will compensate, and so if there is an injury to the peck or there is chronic groin strains or something like that. Your brain will look further up or down that line to try and compensate for that.” - Garrett Kuhlman
- (Trauma pain) “It turns chronic because they have these dysfunctional patterns in place that won’t let the initial tissue heal.” - Garrett Kuhlman
- (The Bird Dog exercise) “You are on all-fours and you extend, say, the right leg and left arm at the same time. I will attach a band to the wall above your head.and you just pull at the same time you extend your leg.” - Garrett Kuhlman
Resources Mentioned:
- GuerrillaZen.com
- Get Complete Essentials at BSLNutritionshop.com
- Guerrilla Zen Fitness YouTube: YouTube
- Dr. Garrett Kuhlman: Linkedin Instagram
- Elite Movement Chiropractic Clinic: petoskeymovementchiro.com
- Book: Anatomy Trains by Thomas W. Myers
- Book: Advances in Functional Training by Mike Boyle