Due to a left shoulder injury, Iโve had to adapt my training. And I donโt just mean rehabbing my shoulder.
was born out of a relentless determination to keep moving. Iโve been physically active my whole life, and injuries have been part of the deal. For me, rehab was never just about โgetting betterโ โ it was about not losing my ๐ช GAINNNZZZ.
My muscle mass.
My capacity.
My strength.
Itโs a mindset:
Not settling for the bare minimum, but pushing to work as hard as possible while still respecting the injury.
Every detail matters. Training unilaterally. Holding isometrics where I can. Finding ways to load the system safely.
Not minimum effort. Maximum tolerable effort.
Not โlimit muscle atrophy.โ Stimulate hypertrophy.
Rehab is training. Always has been. Always will be.
โ And thatโs the approach I teach when building shoulder rehab programs.
๐ If you want to learn how to design programs that donโt just โprotectโ the shoulder but actually drive progress, join me in my next Shoulder Rehab Masterclass happening this Sunday !
Iโll walk you through the exact principles and strategies I use to turn setbacks into opportunities for growth.
For the hypermobile athlete, the real issue isnโt stiffness โ itโs control.
When joints move too freely, the passive stabilizers (ligaments, capsule, labrum) canโt do the job alone. Thatโs where functional stability comes in.
โก๏ธFunctional instability = the inability to dynamically stabilize a joint for proper control and movement.
๐ The takeaway: without control and awareness, strength gains wonโt stick โ and the hypermobile athlete risks chronic wear and tear.
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To truly restore stability, your intervention must address four key elements:
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4๏ธโฃ Functional motor patterns
๐ก In this weekโs article, I break down how each of these elements contributes to re-establishing stability โ and why strength alone isnโt enough for the hypermobile athlete.
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When dealing with insertional Achilles tendinopathy, the tendon gets compressed against the heel bone โ and this compression increases with ankle dorsiflexion (think deep lunges, squats, or letting the knees drift forward).
๐ In the early phase of rehab, when pain and morning stiffness are high, avoiding dorsiflexion helps:
๐ Reduces compressive load on the tendon
โ๏ธ Keeps symptoms manageable while still allowing safe loading
โ Buys time to build tolerance without flaring things up
This doesnโt mean we ban knees-over-toes forever. In fact, restoring tolerance to dorsiflexion is an essential long-term goal. But in the beginning, smart rehab means choosing movements that challenge the tendon without exceeding its current capacity.
๐ก Examples: hip-dominant lifts (RDLs, hip thrusts) and controlled eccentrics with the knee stacked over the ankle.
Rehab isnโt about avoiding load. Itโs about loading strategicallyโand early on, that means managing compression.
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Mai-Linh Dovan is a Certified Athletic Therapist and leading industry expert in functional rehabilitation. She holds a Bachelorโs degree in Athletic Therapy and a Masterโs degree in Exercise Science from Concordia University, where she worked in collaboration with the Department of Psychology and the Centre for Research in Human Development. With over 20 years of experience in clinical rehabilitation and strength and conditioning, she has developed a comprehensive and unique functional training approach with integrated rehabilitation.
She uses this approach with a diversity of athletes and clients from bodybuilders, powerlifters, CrossFit athletes, as well as athletes from many sports and recreational lifters struggling with various problems: recovery from cervical and thoracic fractures, low back and shoulder dysfunction, dysfunctional movement patterns. It has led many to unleash their full performance potential.
Mai-Linh is also the founder of Rehab-U | Movement and Performance Therapy, an online platform for innovative movement optimization and (p)rehabilitation tools and services for athletes and active individuals. The platform also serves as a resource for personal trainers, strength coaches, and fitness professionals.
It is using this innovative approach rooted in clinical strategies and geared towards prevention and performance, that Mai-Linh developed the Movement Optimization for Prehab and Performance Course. This course provides the principles to effectively assess and identify movement dysfunction as well as strategies, means and methods to build a rehabilitation- integrated intervention.
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Mai-Linh Dovan est Thรฉrapeute du Sport agrรฉรฉe et une experte de l'industrie en matiรจre de rรฉadaptation fonctionnelle. Elle est titulaire dโun baccalaurรฉat en Thรฉrapie du sport et dโune maรฎtrise en Sciences de lโexercice de lโUniversitรฉ Concordia, oรน elle a travaillรฉ en collaboration avec le Dรฉpartement de psychologie et le Centre de recherche en dรฉveloppement humain. Forte de plus de 20 ans dโexpรฉrience en rรฉadaptation clinique et en entraรฎnement, elle a dรฉveloppรฉ une approche en entraรฎnement fonctionnel complรจte et unique avec rรฉadaptation intรฉgrรฉe.
Elle utilise cette approche avec une diversitรฉ d'athlรจtes et de clients tels que bodybuilders, dynamophiles, athlรจtes CrossFit, ainsi que des athlรจtes de nombreux sports et des gens actifs aux prises avec divers problรจmes. Cela a permis ร plusieurs de libรฉrer leur plein potentiel de performance.
Mai-Linh est รฉgalement la fondatrice de Rehab-U | Movement and Performance Therapy, une plateforme en ligne offrant des outils et services novateurs d'optimisation du mouvement et de (p) rรฉadaptation, destinรฉs aux athlรจtes et aux personnes actives. La plate-forme sert รฉgalement de ressource pour les kinรฉsiologues et professionnels de lโentraรฎnement.
Cโest en utilisant cette approche novatrice ancrรฉe dans des stratรฉgies cliniques et axรฉe sur la prรฉvention et la performance que Mai-Linh a dรฉveloppรฉ le cours ยซ Optimisation du mouvement pour la prehab et la performance ยป. Ce cours enseigne les principes permettant d'รฉvaluer et d'identifier de faรงon efficace les dysfonctions du mouvement, ainsi que des stratรฉgies, des moyens et des mรฉthodes permettant de mettre en place une intervention avec rรฉadaptation intรฉgrรฉe.
