Eccentric Isometric Dips

Eccentric-isometric dips can be an effective & challenging rehabilitative exercise for people experiencing elbow pain during benching or pressing movements. It should go without saying that one needs healthy shoulder/scapulothoracic mobility & strength in order to perform these--addressing pain in one joint at the expense of others is not the goal here! _ While using lighter dumbbells can be an effective way to isolate certain muscles crossing the elbow (triceps, forearm musculature) and are an excellent choice for reactive patients or acute pain, it's hard to get a meaningful loading stimulus with them in later stages of rehab. Dips however target the triceps very well in addition to demanding strong scapular retraction and shoulder extension, which may be meaningful to you if your sport requires this (gymnastics movements, Crossfit, bench pressing). _ Additionally, literature has supported isometric exercises as having analgesic (pain-relieving) effects on the treatment of tendinopathy if your tendons are the source of your pain, or the driver of your nociception (Rio et al 2015). The eccentric portion adds time under tension to loading and can be controlled based on where in the range you experience pain. The pause at the bottom is the isometric portion, and the concentric portion can be included or excluded based on patient presentation. #ClinicalAthlete #ClinicalAthleteProvider

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