Today I've got a guest feature for the Myth Bust Monday series. This blog comes from Nima Mehran, M.D. Orthopaedic Surgeon & Sports Medicine Specialist who was previously medical staff with the Lakers, Kings, Dodgers and USC. Do all meniscus tears need surgery? Absolutely not!!! A tear on an MRI does not equate with needing surgery. This is a common misconception. Let's discuss this more! What is a Meniscus? The meniscus is a C-shaped tissue between your femur (thigh bone) an

“Lifting makes you tight” “Stretch to get loose” “If you don’t stretch you’ll get stiff” These are just a few common statements I hear regularly. I train at a commercial gym at the moment and at least once a week I’ll hear people telling these kinds of statements to each other. In clinical practice I’ve heard therapists telling patients these kinds of narratives and used them to support their clinical reasoning for interventions. It seems these statements have been around for

The fields of rehab and performance are inundated with many myths - beliefs that we hold to be true, passed down from the ages and rarely questioned. A new series that we are going to be running on The Strength Therapist blog and social media will be looking to address this: Myth Bust Mondays. Going forward we are planning to have a new post each week on a different myth within these fields. We’ll be having lots of guest features of friends and colleagues joining us to help c