QUOTE OF THE DAY "WE CAN SEE FARTHER WHEN WE STAND ON THE SHOULDERS OF GIANTS"

Dr. Jack C. Hughston (4/17/07-9/6/04) was an orthopaedist and "Pioneer" of Sports Medicine. He was one of the earliest team physicians in sports. He was the team physician for Auburn Football in 1952. His writing, research, and passion helped create the National Athletic Trainers Association (NATA). He is responsible for so many things related to sports injury rehabilitation, strength coaches should also be tremendously indebted to him. For a nice biography of Dr. Hughston go to journal.ajsm.org/cgi/content/full/32/8/1816
One of Dr. Hughston's many contributions revolved around the area of shoulder rehabilitation and stabilization. The Hughston series are eight sequential exercises I use with many of my athletes, including myself. You can use it for all sports, but especially sports where throwing occurs, or what I call the "stick" sports. This would include baseball, basketball, football (QB's), ice hockey, field hockey, volleyball, archery, tennis, and hey you get the story!!!
The eight exercise are:
1) Stand up (like ludacris) have your arms at your sides. Raise your hands straight ahead until they are above your head. Keep your arms straight. Have the thumb up as if you were Fonzi from the TV show "Happy Days".
2) Repeat except have your thumbs down to the ground.
3) Have your arms come out to the side as if doing jumping jacks. Have the thumb up again. Keep the arms straight.
4) Repeat the jumping jack type movement except have the thumbs down.
5) Repeat exercise number 1, except do it in a skier position. This is similar to the tucked position a skier would have while competed in the downhill (Alberto Tomba was the man). Have the thumbs up.
6) Stay in the tucked skier position and have your thumbs down.
7) Stay in the skier tucked position, with the arms going out to the sides, and have the thumb up.
8) O.K. you alter the thumb position with each exercise. The last exercise was thumbs up, so this must be thumbs down. Very Good!!
You do all exercises without a rest. Start somewhere between eight and twelve reps. You will need no weights. Yes, that's correct, no weights. When you can get twenty reps, then proceed to start the sequence with 2.5 pounds or smaller. This is demanding but a great prehab/rehab exercise. Dr. Hughston, Thank You!!!