Let me share a quick story about my friend Amy. She’s my basketball buddy, and she loves working out and playing basketball.
But two years ago, after a practice, she had such strong pain in both thighs that she couldn’t squat. Since then, every squat and every game came with pain.
When she tried to squat, you could see her hesitation. She had about 4 out of 10 pain. She could still go down, but the discomfort made her avoid squatting, rebounding, and jumping.
After testing her movement and checking her injury history, we found she wasn’t absorbing shock well when landing, and her glutes weren’t firing. That caused poor alignment, putting too much stress on the front of her thighs and knees.
Her main issue wasn’t something manual therapy could fix—it was muscle imbalance and movement control. So we trained her glutes and her landing strategy.
And amazingly, after just one treatment session, she sent this video to me. The pain dropped to 2 out of 10, and suddenly she was able to squat smoothly again.
I’m so happy for her, because now she has no excuse to just stand on the three-point line and skip rebounding anymore!
