Dr. JC Aikenhead - Golf Physio

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Dr. JC Aikenhead - Golf Physio 🏌️ Golfers with back, hip, or shoulder pain
We assess movement & swing — not just pain
No rest. We are only focused on YOU getting back to your activities.

No guessing.
👇🏼Apply for a Golf Performance Diagnostic in Links Section We are the opposite of typical Chiropractic and Physical Therapy. The current Chiro/PT field is only looking for more patients per hour, your insurance dictates your care, they hand you off to assistants to do exercises, you get temporary relief, and treatment with no end date. We offer 60 min 1 on 1 appointments, only. We offer customized care plans with an end date. We find the root cause behind your pain and we work for YOU, not the insurance company.

10/25/2026

Can’t clear your lead hip? Rotation is only half of it.

Clearing the hip takes two motions. The first is the one every golfer has heard of: hip internal rotation. Turning the lead hip in is what lets the pelvis open up at impact.

The second is the one nobody thinks about: adduction. That’s the lead leg moving in toward the other one, and it’s what your weight shift depends on. If either motion is missing, your body still has to get through the ball, so it finds another way. That’s often where the stall, the spin-out or the early extension comes from.

So you get told to “clear your hips.” You drill it on the range, it feels right for a bucket, and it’s gone by the first tee. The cue never gives your hip the two motions it needs.

We don’t coach the clearance. We build the motions it depends on, then let the swing use them.

Movement first. Swing second. Results follow.

Send this to the golfer in your group who never gets through the ball.

Comment TURN and I’ll send you the breakdown⛳️

10/24/2026

Hanging back on your trail foot isn’t a downswing problem. It starts at the top.

If your hips spin all the way around in the backswing, your belt buckle ends up pointing away from the target and your weight rolls to the outside of your trail foot. From there, getting to your lead side is a very big task. So you hang back, flip it, and get told to “shift your weight.”

You can grind that cue on the range all summer. It won’t stick, because hanging back is usually a compensation, not the problem. Often the trail hip isn’t rotating in its socket (trail hip internal rotation), so the whole pelvis spins instead of loading.

The shark tooth fixes the position you swing from:
Take the zipper of your pants and move it over onto the front of your trail thigh.
That loads your trail glute.
It keeps the inside edge of your trail foot in the ground.
And it stops your hips from spinning all the way around.

Load the trail hip, and the lead side is there for you to get to.

Movement first. Swing second. Results follow.

Send this to the golfer in your group who always finishes on their back foot.

Comment TURN and I will send you the breakdown.

10/24/2026

Standing up through impact isn’t a posture problem. It’s a room problem.

When your lead hip can’t turn, your body still has to get through the ball. So the pelvis pushes toward it, the chest lifts, and you stand up. That fault is usually compensation. The compensation often comes from a lead hip that can’t rotate in the socket (AF IR). And that hip can’t rotate when the femur has no space to turn into.

So you get told to “stay in your posture.” You feel it in slow motion, you grind it on the range, and the moment you swing at speed you stand up again. The cue never gave your hip any room.

This femur distraction drill is where we start building it:
Foam roller under the lead hip.
Knee and foot heavy into the ground. They’re your anchor.
Use your upper body to slowly drag forward, then slowly let it back.
Toe and knee stay in the exact same spots.
You should feel the femur getting pulled out of the cup a little bit.

Movement first. Swing second. Results follow.

Send this to the golfer in your group who stands up every swing.

Comment ASSESS and I will send you the breakdown.

10/24/2026

Swaying off the ball isn’t a hip problem you fix by holding still. It’s a hip that can’t turn.

In the backswing your pelvis has to rotate into your trail hip. If that hip can’t rotate inward, the turn has nowhere to go, so your hips slide sideways instead. That’s the sway. Then you spend the downswing trying to get back to the ball.

“Keep your hips still” just freezes the one thing that needs to move. You trade a sway for a short, armsy backswing.

The fix is teaching the hip to turn. Here the belt pulls the hips sideways, and the job is to turn into the hip instead of sliding with it, then control it back.

Movement first. Swing second. Results follow.

Send this to the golfer in your group who sways off every tee shot.

Comment TURN and I’ll send you the breakdown.

10/23/2026

Stuck on your trail side? It’s probably not your weight shift. Your hips aren’t turning, so your low back is doing their job.

At the top of the backswing, your pelvis has to turn into your trail hip and your chest has to turn the opposite way. That’s where the force comes from that gets you to your lead side. Without it, your body has no real way of getting you there.

So it borrows. The lumbar spine bends and twists to make up the turn your hips can’t make. You still get through the ball, but your low back is paying for it, and the lower body efficiency that should push you to the lead side is gone.

That’s why “get to your lead side” and “shift your weight” never stick. You’re drilling a move your body doesn’t have the access to make. Getting to the lead side is one of the biggest problems we see, whether a golfer comes in for performance or for pain.

So we don’t start with the swing. We find what’s keeping the hips from turning, give the body that motion back, and then the shift has somewhere to come from.

Movement first. Swing second. Results follow.



Comment ASSESS and I’ll send you the breakdown.

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Carol Stream, IL
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