Happy May everyone, hopefully the weather is starting to improve near you as spring time approaches!  Before we get to the latest Plays of the Week, I wanted to take the opportunity to send out some thanks and to make a few announcements:

Thank you!

• I want to thank the 41,000 people that have visited my physical therapy blog,
• More importantly I want to thank the 555 subscribers, 262 followers on Twitter, and 54 friends on Facebook.  If you haven’t yet, feel free to follow me on any of these social media websites.  We just started a great discussion on kettlebells on Facebook.  Also, don’t forget that if yousubscribe via emailyou will receive all my latest posts in your email but also gain access tomy other website with all the latest articles from orthopedic and sports medicine journals.
• I want to thank all the many people that comment on posts and create such a nice discussion each week.  This is truly the highlight of my week.  Keep up the comments and interaction.  If you haven't commented yet, please do so and join the discussions!
• I also want to thank the guest contributors, Christie Downing, Trevor Winnegge, Harrison Vaughn, and Dan Lorenz for the excellent contributions of articles on Transversus Abdominis, the QUADAS tool, the relationship between hip pain and low back pain, immobilizing the shoulder in external rotation, complications following distal radius fractures, and predicting which patients will not respond to physical therapy.
• I welcome all readers to contact me to discuss some ideas on guest posts.  I know you all have a lot of experience and ideas to share, please do so!  You can contact me with any idea that would fit the theme of this blog.  It can be a discussion about a new concept or technique that you use or a review of a book or journal article you have recently read.  I would still love any posts related to: spine, manual therapy, hip, foot and ankle, or trigger points.
• An update on the webinars:  The response to my webinars so far has exceeded my expectations, thank you for that.  To present these is time consuming and expensive.  I am still working on making this more automated and upgrading my website to allow the downloading of recorded webinars.  I plan on working on this the next month or so and then releasing a schedule of monthly webinars.  Once this gets rolling it should be easy to keep going.  Here is an example of my past webinar on NMES of the rotator cuff

• Leon Chaitow has a new post about a new approach to fascial manipulation from Italy.  Interesting and anything new and excited to Dr. Chaitow is a read for me.  I picked up a copy of the book, click here to join me.
• Among other things, Eric Cressey discusses a little bit about the current trend towards Vitamin D supplementation. 
• If you are a student or interested in working in professional sports, be sure to read my post on 5 tips on landing a sports medicine job in professional sports.
• Alwyn Cosgrove wants to help you fit into a bathing suit by Memorial Day … 3 weeks left!
• Video of the Week.  So you want to get your groove on while picking out a soda during a break at work?  There is nothing wrong with that, just realize you never know who is watching you…

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