Dr. JC Aikenhead - Golf Physio

Dr. JC Aikenhead - Golf Physio 🏌️ Golfers with back, hip, or shoulder pain
We assess movement & swing — not just pain
No rest. We are only focused on YOU getting back to your activities.

No guessing.
👇🏼Apply for a Golf Performance Diagnostic in Links Section We are the opposite of typical Chiropractic and Physical Therapy. The current Chiro/PT field is only looking for more patients per hour, your insurance dictates your care, they hand you off to assistants to do exercises, you get temporary relief, and treatment with no end date. We offer 60 min 1 on 1 appointments, only. We off

er customized care plans with an end date. We find the root cause behind your pain and we work for YOU, not the insurance company.

06/13/2026

Smooth isn’t a feel you’re gifted. It’s a signature — what a swing looks like when the body isn’t fighting itself.

Watch where amateurs lose it: the transition. The club hasn’t finished going back and they’re already yanking it down with the arms. That’s a tension spike. And tension is the #1 thief of speed and rhythm in golf.

Scott does the opposite. Lower body starts down while the club is still loading up top. Nothing rushed. Speed builds from the ground and peaks at impact — not at the top.

Here’s what nobody tells you: you can’t try to be smooth. “Swing easy,” grip softer, slow it down — none of it works. Tension isn’t a mindset. It’s your body bracing against a position it doesn’t trust.

Free the body up. Give it stability and room to move in sequence. Then it stops fighting — on its own.

So if your swing feels like a fight, that’s not a tempo tip you can think your way out of. That’s a movement problem.

Movement first. Swing second. Results follow.

06/12/2026

Late-stage back pain rehab and speed training are the same thing. Most golfers don’t believe me until they feel it.

Here’s why: your low back gets overworked when your feet can’t transfer force into the ground. No root = no push. No push = your spine becomes the engine instead of the chassis.

When your feet stay connected through the swing, force travels foot → hip → trunk in sequence. Your back stops absorbing what your hips should be producing.

That’s how the same drill that finishes your rehab adds ball speed — ground force isn’t something you create with effort, it’s the output of being in position to use it.

Movement first. Swing second. Results follow.

Comment or DM “Diagnostic” and I’ll send your ticket into finding your most efficient swing.

06/12/2026

Mobility gets you into the position. Control lets you use it.

Plenty of golfers pass a hip mobility test on the table, then lose that range the second they’re standing over a ball. The hip isn’t tight — your brain just doesn’t trust it under load.

That’s why stretching alone never fixed your turn. You don’t have a flexibility problem. You have an access problem.

Train the range you already own. Distance follows.

Comment ROTATE and I’ll send you where to start.

Movement first. Swing second. Results follow.

06/11/2026

You don’t lose speed because you got old.

You lose speed because your body stopped transferring force — and no amount of swinging harder fixes a transfer problem.

This kettlebell drill trains the one thing most golfers over 45 skip: loading the trail side fast, then snapping it to the lead side. That’s where clubhead speed actually comes from. Not your arms. Not “swinging out of your shoes.”

The kettlebell forces you to feel the shift. Heavy enough to load, light enough to move fast.

Add this 2x a week before you touch a club.

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Movement first. Swing second. Results follow.

06/10/2026

Watch Cam Young’s hips in transition.

They’re not sliding toward the target. They’re TURNING — rotating around his lead hip while everything stays stacked. That’s where 123 mph comes from.

Most amateurs do the opposite. The hips slide laterally, the pelvis never rotates, and the only move left is to stand up out of posture. That’s your early extension.

And here’s the thing — you’re not sliding because you chose to. You slide because your lead hip can’t rotate. No internal rotation, no turn. The slide is your body’s plan B.

Cam Young doesn’t have a better swing thought. He has access you don’t.

Want to find out what’s blocking your turn? Drop DIAGNOSTIC below - we’ll get connected.

Movement first. Swing second. Results follow.

06/10/2026

You’re standing up at impact because you have to.

You’re standing up because your hip ran out of room. 👇

Every coach says the same thing — “stay in your posture, hold your spine angle.” As if early extension is a focus problem you can think your way out of.

It’s not. It’s a space problem.

To finish your swing, your pelvis has to rotate over your lead leg. That takes hip internal rotation. When the hip can’t roll far enough, it hits a wall — and your body finds the only exit it has left: it pushes toward the ball and stands you up.

That’s early extension. Not a flaw. A workaround.

So you can keep grinding on “staying down”… or you can give that hip the room to actually clear.

Fix the hip, and the posture fixes itself.

Comment ROTATE and I’ll send you the drill that opens it up.

Movement first. Swing second. Results follow.

06/09/2026

You’re not clearing your lead hip. You’re spinning past it.

“Clear the hips” got turned into “spin them out of the way” — so you fire open, the lead leg straightens, and you stand up out of the shot. That’s not clearance. That’s escape.

Real clearance starts by moving into the lead hip, not around it. The femur has to rotate into the socket and accept load before the pelvis can rotate over a stable lead leg. Get into it, and rotation is the byproduct. Try to skip it, and your body finds the same exits every time: early extension, slide, flip.

The hip has to take you before it can turn you.

Movement first. Swing second. Results follow.

Comment ROTATE and I’ll send you the drill that teaches your lead hip to accept load instead of running from it.

06/09/2026

Your brain will never let you fully load something you can’t control.

This is why stretching misses the mark.

Lots of length, no control.

Long term fixes require mobility, control and loading.

Follow for more about how to make your hips your biggest weapon in your swing! 🏌️

Movement first. Swing second. Results follow.

06/09/2026

You were told to flare your lead foot so your hips can “clear.”

That advice is quietly robbing you of distance.

Here’s what actually happens when you turn that foot out:

You think you’re making room. But you’ve already spent the rotation before you started. Flaring the foot biases the whole leg into external rotation — which means there’s barely any internal rotation left for your pelvis to turn over on the way down.

So you don’t clear through a stacked lead leg.

You spin around it.

And here’s the part nobody mentions: a flared foot can’t push straight down into the ground. The force leaks out sideways instead of stacking up your lead leg. No post. No rotational force. No speed.

You didn’t earn clearance. You traded your ground force for the feeling of clearance.

The fix was never a foot position.

It’s hip internal rotation. Restore the IR and you can clear over a quiet, stable foot — and finally post into the ground the way speed actually demands.

Movement first. Swing second. Results follow.

06/08/2026

You’ve heard it a thousand times: “Clear your hips.”

So you try. You yank the lead side open, you spin hard, you force the turn.

And nothing changes. Maybe it even gets worse — more low back tightness, more early extension, less distance.

Here’s what nobody tells you: clearing your hips isn’t a cue. It’s a capacity.

Your lead hip has to be able to rotate internally to create the space your pelvis turns into. No internal rotation, no room. And when there’s no room, your body finds it somewhere else — your spine, your knees, your timing.

That’s not a swing flaw. That’s a movement problem showing up in your swing.

Build the internal rotation first. Then “clearing” stops being something you chase and starts being something that just happens.

Movement first. Swing second. Results follow.

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