Setting Your MVC Goal
If you don’t know where you want to go, you’re never going to get there What is MVC? MVC stands for maximum voluntary contraction, and is a measure of muscle strength, where “maximum strength [...]
Gamification in Physical Therapy: Everybody Wins
What is gamification? If you’ve ever played Mario Kart – or been thwarted by a video game more complex – you’re probably familiar with “button mashing”, or have felt the soreness in your thumbs [...]
Top Clinical Applications for the mTrigger Biofeedback System
With Dr. Kevin Wilk & Russ Paine, PT Get an in-clinic view with sports PT experts Dr. Kevin Wilk and Russ Paine as they review their most impactful uses of biofeedback to help their patients [...]
Built to Sense, Not Stim: mTrigger’s Custom Sensing Electrodes 101
Electrode placement is one of many variables impacting sEMG readings, so here we go into detail about the importance of this sensing apparatus to the mTrigger Biofeedback System. Best Practices for Placement Parallel to [...]
Restoring Muscle Function with Biofeedback ft. Mike Reinold
"The mTrigger device is really amazing and ridiculously affordable, there's no reason why everybody shouldn't be using this. Some of the best sports physical therapists I know are using it." -Mike Reinold Spend a quick [...]
Breaking the Chain of Injury with Preventative Evaluation | pt. 2
Customer Spotlight Feature: Lesley Parrish, DPT and James Boyd III Underlying much of what was discussed in part 1 (Performing Arts Athletes & Injury Prevention) is an all-too-common scenario plaguing collegiate and professional athletes: the [...]
Performing Arts Athletes & Injury Prevention | pt. 1
Customer Spotlight Feature: Lesley Parrish, DPT and James Boyd III Preventing injury in under-served arts athletes Dance, like all sports, has a language of its own – one in which therapist Lesley Parrish has [...]
Addressing Muscle Atrophy in Post-op Knee Patients
Muscle atrophy is a hurdle all musculoskeletal injuries can bring about. Understanding the cause of and options to work against atrophy is absolutely critical to deciding on an effective recovery path for patients. Above, [...]
Returning to Sport with Biofeedback
By Russ Paine, PT | Originally featured on MikeReinold.com Return to sport is a hot topic in rehab right now. It’s difficult to determine if the athlete is ready to return to sport. There are [...]
How to Use Biofeedback in Rehabilitation
By Russ Paine, PT | Originally featured on MikeReinold.com I use biofeedback on virtually every knee patient that has decreased neurological EMG output. As previously mentioned, we are able to use the mTrigger Biofeedback System [...]
