Fast Track Physio

Fast Track Physio We help active people feel better, move better, and quickly recover from injury to get back to the game of life!

Hands-on 1-on-1 physical therapy care optimizing movement, performance, and results.

06/06/2026

💎 JEFFERSON CURLS 💎

💪 are a loaded mobility exercise where you sequentially flex your spine—curling down one vertebra at a time—while holding a light weight. They offer profound benefits for flexibility, spinal health, and injury resilience by training the body to safely tolerate and generate force while bent.

⭐️ Superior Posterior Chain Flexibility
The exercise places a deep, active stretch on the entire back of your body (the posterior chain). This allows you to achieve significantly deeper hamstring flexibility and dramatically improve your ability to touch your toes.

⭐️ Segmental Spinal Control and Health
Many people move their backs as one rigid block. Jefferson Curls force your nervous system to focus on individual vertebral segments. This builds strength and body awareness in the deep-core muscles of your lower, middle, and upper back.

⭐️ Injury Resilience
The movement prepares your spine and connective tissues to handle vulnerable, rounded positions. By gradually loading (*LIGHT LOAD) the spine in a controlled manner, you condition the discs and tissues, reducing the risk of a “thrown out” back when picking up heavy, awkward objects in daily life.

⭐️ Corrects Posterior Tightness
Spending hours sitting causes the lower back and hamstrings to tighten. Jefferson Curls counteract these unnatural, shortened positions through active stretching and movement.

⭐️ Improved Athletic Performance
Weightlifters and gymnasts use them heavily to achieve the extreme flexion required for positions like pikes, V-sits, and cleans.

Props to for engaging in all the Movement Prep necessary to optimize his performance here before doing his Hall of Fame jam at the PBA50 World Series of Bowling (WSOB)! 🙌. His commitment to conditioning has been no doubt one of the key components of his success over the last four decades! 🏃‍♂️ 💪 🎳





06/02/2026

Triumph of Grit & Determination to Overcome Adversity - MATT SANDERS

After sustaining a freak and gruesome injury to his right lower leg on July 6, 2025, was uncertain if he would walk again. A large and HEAVY piece of glass fell on his leg, 🤕 severing tendons and causing nerve damage to the muscles and tendons in his foot and ankle. Matt put his nose to the grindstone and was steadily steering the ship to optimize his post-operative recovery. Amazingly, in just 8 short months later, he performed so well that he earned an exclusive spot in the Finals in a Major, the U.S. Open! 💪🤩🙌

Appreciating the opportunity to work with Matt at the World Series of Bowling (WSOB)🙏 The video clips above don’t show our manual work together: myofascial release, joint mobilizations, manual resisted exercises (MRE), among others…but the real story here is Matt! Never complaining, maintaining a positive mental attitude, and focusing only on what we can control (the task at hand); results manifested! I can’t wait to see what happens when this athlete gets close to 💯!
Watch out!!
Thanks for the lesson, Sandy! 👊🫵





05/22/2026

On lane treatment helps propel Ronnie Russell to lead Shark Championship at the World Series of Bowling (WSOB)

Appreciate the for their support of to provide necessary on site care during the grind of these events. was one of THREE athletes receiving on lane care within an hour 😮
Though this may have been Ronnie’s last event competing on the PBA Tour (in favor of aNOTHER Tour ⛳️ ), it was satisfying to have him compete at his best!




05/17/2026

Kyle ‘s De-Sherman-ation and partnership produce RESULTS despite overcoming injuries at the World Series of Bowling (WSOB)

Always humbled and excited to help athletes of ALL levels to perform at their best. It was especially fulfilling to advance my partnership with @ k_sherm32 during the gauntlet that is the WSOB. The unrelenting schedule of 12+ consecutive weeks of bowling without time off, combined with the stop/start AND ultimate volume turned the tournament into a veritable MASH unit of sorts.

Despite all that, Kyle took advantage of frequent sessions with to gain a leg up on recovery, activation, & performance, many times 2x daily sessions. It was no small wonder that by the 4th day of consistent hands-on care, he began moving with less restriction, became essentially pain-free by day 5, and also was rolling it as best as I’ve seen in our 2+ years of working together! 🫵 His performance showed the dividends of his diligent efforts, as he qualified for 2 of the 4 TV shows to compete for a championship! 🙌🤩 💪

Again, not lost on me is the immense juggling act of serving 3 masters while performing his jobs as a TV broadcaster, YouTube personality & channel curator, and most importantly, professional bowling athlete. How he harnesses the dogged determination is simply inspiring! Appreciate you, Kyle Sherman, our partnership, and look forward to further fostering your ascension into continued greatness!





05/16/2026

SIDE PLANK CLAM SHELL

Most athletes don’t train sufficiently in the coronal (lateral) plane and have dysfunction directly related to weakness or neglect of training your LATERAL POWERLINE!

It is important to focus on training BOTH CORE STABILITY and HIP MOBILITY & STRENGTH 💪🏻 which is the essence of FUNCTIONAL STABILITY

In this video, demonstrates this exercise as a GREAT, SIMPLE, & EFFECTIVE way to facilitate External Rotators of the HIP while simultaneously training your LATERAL POWERLINE👍🏼

You know we are all about feeding multiple birds with one crumb, so this exercise is a keen way to work both the TOP & BOTTOM sides, as your bottom side needs to STABILIZE YOUR PELVIS AND SPINE 👌🏻

Tips:
⭐️ Elongate your spine through ENGAGING YOUR CORE
⭐️ Maintain straight and neutral head and neck throughout
⭐️ Place your hand on your core or your top hip to prevent compensation from your low back 🤙🏼
⭐️ Really emphasize control and getting to the absolute end Range of Motion (ROM), while keeping everything stable!

Don’t forget to do the other side as well.
Oh yeah…and BREATHE! 🧘

Give this a try and drop a comment to share how much better YOUR BACK feels from doing just 2 sets of 8-10 of these with CONTROL on both sides!






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05/16/2026

Proper Preparation Prevents Pain & Poor Performance
(6 P’s)

I’ve gotta hand it to Miguel.
He sought help, remained diligent, patient, and embraced the process!

To say that this was one of the most banged up shoulders that I’ve evaluated in my career might still be an understatement. 🥴

Miguel presented to me with 3 goals:
✅ Avoid surgery
✅ Eliminate Pain
✅ Resume Bench Pressing SAFELY

Hard work, sessions of manual work, education, and reframing his Movement Prep & Training regimen started to move the needle, increment function, and minimize pain. 🙌

His diligence, grit, showing up, and no excuses are what carried him to this point and shall serve him well progressing forward. Miggy made my WEEK today, when he was able to get on the bench, grab a pair of Dumbbells (not a Barbell to foster more natural and healthier mechanics with his lift), and achieved a stimulus necessary aligned with all our mutual goals! 🫵

Damn, I love my job!
Thanks Miguel for your trust & support! 👊

The exercises depicted in this montage:
1) Prone Scapular W’s on Incline Bench w/ weight
2) 1/2 Kneeling High Row/90-90 ER/OH PRESS vs Band
3) Scaption Raises w weight in 1/2 Kneeling
4) Bell UP Supine KB ER/IR Long Lever w/ end ROM hold
⭐️ 5) Dumbbell (DB) Flat Bench Press

Those 4 exercises preceding the Bench Pressing are not some “Magic 4,” but part of a compendium of a dozen or so keen Movement Prep stuff that ought be done for successful Bench Pressing to AVOID INJURY & OPTIMIZE PERFORMANCE. 🙌




05/12/2026

💪 Segmental Glute Bridge with Single Leg Marching 💪

Who: Hall of Fame PBA athlete, Amleto Monacelli

Where: PBA 50 World Series of Bowling - Monacelli Championship, in Bloomington, MN

Why:
⭐️ Activation & Strengthening of PosteriorChain Musculature in order to STABILIZE & PROTECT SPINE AGAINST INJURY

⭐️ Enhance & Maximize BRAKING FORCE to assist with deceleration of your body as it approaches the foul line during delivery.

It was an honor to work with a legend and one of the BEST ATHLETES the has ever seen! 😊
Learning and integrating new motor control activities can often times be a challenge…but what a moment to instruct Amleto in these new neuromuscular control drills only to have him nail the desired output of expressed movement!



05/11/2026

Darren Tang doing the necessary work to perform at his best!

The World Series of Bowling (WSOB) is a gauntlet of volume in a condensed period of time. Considering the previous 3 months offered no time off, which is compounded by all the “stop/start” format of the WSOB, it’s not a matter of IF, but WHEN nagging injuries begin to manifest.

To overcome Quadriceps Tendonitis from the relative crazy volume, is taking advantage of prolonged isometrics to help ABOLISH PAIN & IMPROVE NEUROMUSCULAR ACTIVATION 💪 of his muscles to maximally support his lower body during the demands of bowling in this first video clip. He’s getting bang for his buck by holding a Spanish Squat vs band for 30+ seconds. Resting 90 sec & performing 5 reps are plenty to do the job!

The second clip shows Darren getting after a functional balance drill, Single-Leg ball pick up/downs, which are integrating functional demands needed for the specificity of his sport.

Last clip demonstrates the importance of as he’s performing the keen Active Mobility Drill of ‘World’s Greatest Stretch” under the tension of mobility bands. 8 reps on each side are all that’s needed to MOBILIZE the HIP JOINT to prepare him for the global MOBILITY needed to bowl.

Finally, I need to shout out Darren here. Last year, after a few tournaments, Vitamin D decided to abandon his one-handed technique in favor of 2-handed…mid-stream. It mostly blows my mind that he was able to ascend that new skill acquisition to be one of the most competitive athletes on the within a year.

Congratulations, Darren, with your well deserved win on the 2026 PBA Chameleon Championship! Your dedication, training regimen, and skill are to be celebrated! 🙌 🫵🏆
Further evidence that !



05/03/2026

Dynamic Hip Flexor Mobility UNDER LOAD

Adding LOAD during helps take better OWNERSHIP of that NECESSARY end range mobility.

Here, is performing 1/2 Kneeling Quad & Hip Flexor Stretch while using both hands to raise a KB overhead (OH). This OH lift with load LENGTHENS the Hip Flexors, Abdominals, DECREASES ANTERIOR PELVIC TILT, & DECOMPRESSES your LUMBAR SPINE! 👍

During the OH loaded raise, Kyle is reaching in 3 different directions to bias all fibers of his Hip Flexor Musculature.

To intensify the quad mobility & better incriminate the hip flexor 🎯 elevate the rear leg on a chair to really feel that LENGTHENING in from of your hip, like Kyle Sherman indicates through his interjections. 😮

Give these a try and drop knowledge in comments on how it felt! You probably won’t make the Finals at the World Series of Bowling (WSOB), but you’ll:
⭐️ ELIMINATE BACK PRESSURE
⭐️ IMPROVE POSTURE
⭐️ Mobilize your much needed tight business!




05/01/2026

Fast Tracking RECOVERY at the World Series of Bowling (WSOB) in Minneapolis

Shout out to the trust that these elite athletes place in the process! From Hall of Famers to Major Champions to consecutive 3-time Player of the Year, there’s no “me” without you guys! ‘Preciate! 🙏
Thank YOU:
EJ Tackett
Kevin McCune
Kyle Sherman
Tommy Jones
Sean Lavery-Spahr
as well as those not included in this video: Zach Wilkins & AJ Johnson.
This was just from Practice Day.
Many more to follow to keep their bodies performing at their BEST!




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