The Magnolia journal
Short reads on golf movement, evaluation and working with your care and coaching team.
Body-Swing Connection
Casting spends your wrist angle at the top of the downswing and costs easy speed. How to spot it on video and fix the cause, not the symptom.
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Early extension is golf's most common power leak. The four physical causes, a 10 minute self test, and fixes matched to what your body can do.
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Force plates measure what your swing does against the ground, and research ties those forces directly to clubhead speed. What a session reveals.
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90 percent of hip and 70 percent of knee replacement patients return to golf, most in about 4 months. The timelines, the data, and a staged return plan.
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Surgeons recommend golf at 4 to 8 weeks after microdiscectomy and 6 months after fusion. The timelines by procedure and how to make the return stick.
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Swedish golfers live about five years longer. Part is selection, part is 17,000 steps a round. The honest version of the golf and health evidence.
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The golf swing puts over six times body weight through the lumbar spine. Why golfers' backs complain and how to keep playing while you fix it.
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A research based weekly exercise program for golfers over 60: mobility, strength, balance, and speed work that protects the swing you have.
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Elite golfer imaging shows labral tears in 37 percent of trail hips. What groin, side, and buttock pain each mean, and when to stop stretching.
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Over half of golfers get injured, the lower back and elbow lead every count, and most injuries are overuse. The verified numbers and what they mean.
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The lead shoulder takes the swing's most awkward positions and most golf shoulder problems live there. The conditions by location, self checks, and how to keep playing.
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Strength training adds 4 to 6 percent clubhead speed in trials, and core work alone failed in an elite RCT. The weekly golf lifting template, from the data.
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Static stretching before golf cut clubhead speed 4 percent and accuracy 31 percent in testing. What to do instead, and the after golf routine by region.
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Average driving distance peaks at 256 yards in the 30s and falls to 230 by the 60s. The swing speed charts by age and handicap, and what is trainable.
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Most golfers never warm up, yet dynamic warm ups add measurable speed and static stretching subtracts it. The evidence based 8 minute routine.
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Two thirds of elite golfers' wrist injuries hit the lead wrist, most on the ulnar side. The causes by location, the injury not to miss, and how to keep playing.
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Inner elbow pain or outer elbow pain point to different tendon problems. Tell them apart in 60 seconds and see what the research says actually works.
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Limited lead hip internal rotation is the most studied physical finding in golfers with back pain. How to measure it, train it, and when not to stretch.
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Strength and power training adds 4 to 6.4 percent to clubhead speed in the research, and flexibility alone adds almost nothing. The evidence based path to more speed.
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Pelvis, torso, arm, club: the kinematic sequence explains where clubhead speed comes from, and why your sequence graph deserves a skeptical eye.
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Your mid back produces most of your shoulder turn, and it stiffens quietly. Test your thoracic rotation in two minutes and train it back.
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A sports chiropractor evaluates and treats movement and musculoskeletal problems in athletes. The training, the evidence, and how they differ from a PT or orthopedist.
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TPI certified appears in thousands of bios. What the Titleist Performance Institute teaches, how its levels and tracks work, and which one you need.
Read the article ↗Junior & College
Why a left-right difference needs context before it becomes a clinical decision.
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A useful handoff helps a return-to-golf plan respect the guidance already in place.
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One useful part of a golf movement examination, and the limits of a single measurement.
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A practice built around useful clinical questions about movement and golf.
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