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.

09/02/2026

You can’t turn your torso if you can’t turn your ribs.

Most golfers try to force movement, but the body doesn’t work that way.

Movement first. Swing second. Results follow.

09/01/2026

Force plates, instrumented insoles, 42 motion-capture markers. 15 pros, 15 amateurs, matched on age, height, and body mass.

Center-of-pressure control? No meaningful difference between the groups. The exact thing every pressure mat in every studio is measuring. Nearly identical between a 111 mph swing and a 92 mph swing.

What did separate them: how efficiently mechanical impulse got transmitted from the ground, up through the chain, to the clubhead. Foot-ground variables alone explained about a third of clubhead speed. Add energy transfer efficiency and you explain three quarters of it.

Here’s what that means for you.

Force isn’t your problem. You’re producing plenty of it. It’s escaping before it ever reaches the club: usually at a hip that won’t internally rotate, or a ribcage that can’t get to the other side.

That’s why “use the ground more” makes some golfers faster and does nothing at all for everyone else. It’s a transmission problem wearing a production problem’s clothes.

I’ve assessed over 600 golfers in the Chicagoland area. The leak is almost never where the swing coach is pointing.

Movement first. Swing second. Results follow.

08/30/2026

You’ve been stretching the wrong thing.

Your thoracic spine doesn’t have much rotation to give on its own. It’s a stack of small joints buried inside a rib cage. When your ribs can’t expand on one side and compress on the other, the spine has nowhere to go.

That’s why the open book, the thread the needle, the foam roller under the T-spine all feel productive and never actually change your turn. You’re pulling on a segment that’s being held hostage by the structure around it.

Rotation is really a breathing problem in disguise. Ribs expand on the left, compress on the right, and the spine rotates as a consequence. Get the rib cage moving and the turn shows up without anyone cueing it.

In 600+ golfer assessments, restricted rotation almost never traces back to a “tight” spine. It traces back to a rib cage stuck in one position, usually the same position it sits in all day.

Movement first. Swing second. Results follow.

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08/29/2026

Nobody’s ever told you that ball striking starts at the trail foot.

“Stay on the inside of your trail foot” is one of the most repeated cues in golf. It’s also why a lot of golfers can’t load the trail hip at all.

To actually get into that trail hip, the foot has to pronate. The heel has to accept weight. That’s what lets the pelvis shift and rotate into the trail side.

If the foot stays locked in supination, the pelvis has nowhere to go. So you slide, you hang back, and the low point of your swing moves behind the ball. Fat one. Thin one. Repeat.

Then you go take a lesson about “staying down through it” and you’re grinding on a technique fix for a foot that won’t give you the range of motion to do it.

In 600+ golfer assessments, trail-side loading restriction is one of the most common things I find in people who “can’t stop hitting it fat.”

It’s access. Not effort.

Movement first. Swing second. Results follow.

08/28/2026

600+ golfers assessed. Almost none of them had an “early extension habit.”

They had a pelvis with nowhere left to go.

Comment SWING to find out which one you are.

Movement first. Swing second. Results follow.

08/26/2026

There is in fact, a better way.

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Movement first. Swing second. Results follow.

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Carol Stream, IL
60188

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