Dr. Kyle Richmond DC

Dr. Kyle Richmond DC Rehab chiropractor who specializes in reducing pain through movement.
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06/08/2026

The posterior tibialis is one of the most important muscles for athletes, yet it’s rarely trained directly.

It helps control pronation, manage force through the foot and ankle, and creates a stable platform for sprinting, cutting, jumping, and landing. When this area lacks strength or capacity, athletes often compensate elsewhere, leading to inefficiencies and increased stress up the chain.

Mobility training isn’t passive stretching, it’s developing strength and control through ranges of motion that athletes need to perform at a high level.

Better feet and ankles often lead to better movement everywhere else.

06/06/2026

Most people focus on stretching their hips, but very few actually train hip internal rotation.

Hip internal rotation plays a huge role in running, cutting, squatting, rotating, and changing direction.

When it’s limited, the body often finds motion somewhere else, usually the low back, knee, or pelvis.

That’s why I regularly prescribe internal rotation exercises in both rehab and performance programs. The goal isn’t just to create more motion, it’s to build strength and control in the ranges your body needs to perform.

Mobility is only useful if you can actually own it.

06/04/2026

One of the biggest misconceptions in rehab and fitness is that your spine is fragile.

On the left, I’m training spinal flexion with a Jefferson Curl. On the right, I’m training spinal extension over a PVC pipe. Both are valuable. Both are normal movements. Both can be loaded and strengthened.

The problem isn’t flexion. The problem isn’t extension. The problem is often that people stop exposing their body to those positions altogether because they’ve been told they’re dangerous.

Your spine is designed to move. Just like any other joint, it adapts to the positions and loads you expose it to. Avoiding movement out of fear doesn’t build resilience

06/02/2026

If your chiropractors “solution” for your tight hips is an adjustment. It’s time for a new chiropractor.

I’ll be the first to admit that the chiropractic and even the PT field is getting lazy and will always try to find a quick fix.

Instead we should be giving our patients a wide variety of exercises and stretches to not only fix problems, but to build resilience as well.

06/01/2026

Tennis elbow isn’t just an elbow issue. It’s a load tolerance problem of the wrist extensors at the lateral epicondyle.

You’ll feel it with gripping, lifting, typing, or anything that loads wrist extension and the forearm repetitively.

Most people try to stretch it or just rest it, but tendons don’t respond well to that long term. They need progressive loading to actually adapt.

Common faults I see are excessive gripping, poor wrist positioning under load, and relying on passive care without ever rebuilding capacity.

05/31/2026

CARs ➡️ Controlled Articular Rotations.

This is how I assess and train true hip mobility in the clinic. It shows you exactly where you have access to motion and where you’re compensating.

Most people think they have “tight hips,” but when you slow it down and control it, you realize you don’t actually own those ranges.

And this is why most chiropractors don’t teach this. It takes time, coaching, and an understanding of how to build mobility through control, not just create temporary motion.

05/26/2026

An inversion ankle sprain occurs when the foot rolls inward, stressing the lateral ankle ligaments, most commonly the ATFL.

One of the biggest mistakes I see in rehab is completely avoiding inversion afterward.

The problem is that the injury happened in that position. If we never restore the ankle’s ability to control and tolerate inversion, we leave the joint underprepared for the exact stress that caused the injury.

That’s why rehab should progressively reintroduce controlled inversion through strengthening, balance work, and graded loading of the foot and ankle complex.

The goal isn’t just pain relief or ligament healing.

It’s restoring the ankle’s capacity to handle real movement again and reducing the likelihood of recurrent sprains.

05/25/2026

One of the biggest mistakes I see is people trying to force overhead mobility when they don’t even have adequate shoulder extension.

If shoulder extension is limited, you’ll usually see compensation through the low back, forward shoulders, pinching in the front of the shoulder, or poor pressing mechanics.

Shoulder extension is critical for things like pressing, sprinting mechanics, getting overhead, and even basic shoulder positioning.

These are some of the common exercises I prescribe to clients who need more shoulder extension because the goal isn’t just to stretch the shoulder.

It’s to improve mobility while building control and strength in those ranges so the motion actually transfers into real movement.

05/23/2026

Hip external rotation is the outward rotation of the femur within the socket.

It plays a key role in frontal and transverse plane control during cutting, deceleration, squatting, and rotational sport demands while also helping manage valgus stress at the knee.

It differs from internal rotation which is also a very hot topic in hip mobility
Both are essential for normal hip mechanics, but range alone is not enough. We need strength and control at end range.

And it is more than just pigeon stretching. I utilize CARs, 90/90 progressions, isometric loading, and progressive end range strengthening to develop active, usable motion rather than passive flexibility.

05/22/2026

Shin splints are rarely just an “inflammation” problem.

What’s actually happening ⬇️

The tissues along the shin being overloaded due to taking on more stress than they’re prepared for.

In a lot of these cases, it comes from poor load distribution.

Limited ankle mobility, poor foot control, or inefficient mechanics push stress into the anterior shin instead of spreading it through the system.

So the body compensates. You’ll see overstriding, hard heel strikes, collapsed arches, or just accumulating too much volume too quickly.

This is also why just resting, icing, or getting adjusted doesn’t fix it long term. It might calm symptoms, but it doesn’t change how force is being managed.

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