Dr. JC Aikenhead - Golf Physio

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 off

er customized care plans with an end date. We find the root cause behind your pain and we work for YOU, not the insurance company.

08/02/2026

Range of motion you can’t control isn’t range of motion…it’s a threat. The nervous system will not let you turn into a position you can’t stabilize on the way out of it. So it locks you down, and you call that “tight.”

That’s why you can stretch into a deep hip turn on the floor and lose it the second you’re standing over a ball with a club moving 90 mph. On the floor there’s nothing to decelerate. In the swing there is.

Mobility opens the door. Control is what lets you walk through it at speed.

Get the second half wrong and you don’t just leave distance on the table. You hand the joint a range it has no plan for. That’s where the pain shows up.

Stretch less. Control more.

Movement first. Swing second. Results follow.

Every coach tells you to stop sliding. Almost nobody tells you why it’s happening.A slide isn’t a discipline problem. It...
08/01/2026

Every coach tells you to stop sliding. Almost nobody tells you why it’s happening.

A slide isn’t a discipline problem. It’s what the pelvis does when it has nowhere to rotate into.

Your lead hip needs internal rotation to accept the transfer and turn. Without it, there’s no brake — the pelvis just keeps translating laterally until your lead leg or low back stops it. That’s why “stay centered” cues never hold. You’re asking for a motion the joint can’t produce.

Restore the internal rotation and the slide stops on its own. No cue required.

Movement first. Swing second. Results follow.

08/01/2026

What separates the efficient swings from inefficient is typically what happens at the lower body, and how much the player can generate using their hips and legs.

Not only does it make their swing more repeatable, it protects their joints such as the hips and low back from tightness, aches and pains.

Many golfers can’t use the ground because they can’t create the right foot pressures. And that’s where we start.

Movement first. Swing second. Results follow.

07/31/2026

Most problems in the golf swing start with being able to load and unload in your swing.

Many golfers that can’t use the ground, or have issues using their lower body swivel back and forth without stability.

This can lead to pain and performance loss (shorter distances).

This is a drill we use with many of our golfers to help them load and clear their hips. If you have trouble loading your trail side or clearing your lead side…this is for you.

Movement first. Swing second. Results follow.

07/30/2026

The PGA published a golf fitness guide, and honestly? Nothing in it is wrong.

90/90 hip stretch. Glute bridges. Dead bugs. Walk 9 holes. All fine. For the right person.

Here’s the problem: it’s a list, not a plan.

Telling a golfer to “fix your hip mobility” without knowing which hip, which direction, and why it’s restricted is like handing someone a key ring and telling them to open the door. Something on there works. Good luck finding it.

Your right hip not rotating internally is a completely different problem than your left hip not clearing — and they need opposite inputs. Stretch the wrong one and you reinforce the pattern you’re trying to break.

Same with the core stuff. Dead bugs only build stability if your rib cage is stacked over your pelvis first. Do them in extension and you’re just getting stronger at the compensation.

Generic advice isn’t bad advice. It’s just advice without an address.

Link in bio if you want to find the actual key 🔑

Movement first. Swing second. Results follow.

07/30/2026

Stop trying to turn your pelvis. Start giving it something to turn on.

At impact the pelvis should already be rotating open — but rotation needs a post. If your weight is still trailing, there’s no lead leg to rotate over, so the pelvis stalls and the arms finish the job. You feel it as a stall, a flip, a block right.

Two things have to happen in order:

1. Get there. Pressure moves into the lead heel and inside edge before the club changes direction. Not a slide — a transfer. The lead hip accepts load and holds it.

2. Then turn on it. Once that leg is loaded, the lead hip goes into internal rotation and the pelvis clears off it. You don’t force this. It’s what a loaded leg does when it’s positioned to.

Most golfers train step 2 with no step 1. That’s why “clear your hips” never worked for you — you were asking the pelvis to rotate around nothing.

Drills that build it in order:

• Lead-leg only stance — hit balls at 50% with the trail foot back on the toe. Nowhere to hide.
• Step-through — start narrow, step into the lead leg on transition, feel the pelvis follow the load.
• Lead heel pressure hold — take your address, shift pressure into the lead heel, and turn the belt buckle without letting pressure leak back.

Movement first. Swing second. Results follow!

07/29/2026

When you live in extension — ribs flared, pelvis tipped forward, back muscles holding you upright — you lose the position that rotation actually requires. The diaphragm and the abs can’t work together to compress the rib cage. So the T-spine has nowhere to turn from.

The body still needs to get to the top of the backswing. So it borrows. It borrows from the lumbar spine, which is built for maybe 13 degrees of rotation total, and asks it for 40.

That’s not a mobility problem. That’s a strategy problem. You’re extending to create the appearance of a turn, and the low back is paying the bill every rep.

Get out of extension first. Ribs down, pelvis under you, air out. Then rotation shows up without anyone having to force it.

Movement first. Swing second. Results follow.

07/29/2026

Your hip won’t rotate because your foot won’t let it.

Everyone chases hip internal rotation with stretches and 90/90s. But rotation up the chain starts at the inside edge of the foot. Pressure into the inside edge → tibia turns in → femur turns in → the pelvis finally has something to rotate over.

Push into the outside edge instead and the femur spins out. Now the hip is locked before the backswing even starts, and you compensate everywhere above it — early extension, lifting, sliding, arms taking over.

That’s why the mobility work never sticks. You’re training a joint that’s being blocked from the ground up.

Movement first. Swing second. Results follow.

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