Flexibility and the Golf Swing
For many golfers, flexibility is the key for longer drives, better accuracy, and a faster club head speed. This is the missing link not found in other types of golf swing training programs.
“Flexibility might be one of the most important components of the successful golf swing because it increases the movement distance for force application. Studies have demonstrated that greater amounts of force can be produced when a muscle is prestretched before performing the activity demanded of it.” Shark.com
If you have limited flexibility in the spine, hips or shoulders, your golf drive distance, drive accuracy, and handicap will be limited as well. A wider range of trunk motion results in a faster club head speed, a longer drive, and more accuracy throughout the swing.
If you have poor flexibility, you are more prone to injury. Restricted motion in the shoulder will cause other body parts to (poorly) compensate, Poor spinal muscle recruitment will inevitably result in back pain and golf-disability. A stiff low back will disable proper thigh muscle power.
Because of the poor muscle recruitment patterns inherent with a limited range of motion, your golf swing typically results in inconsistencies, slices, and poor distance. Our unique protocols give you, the golfer, a greater arc of motion, fluid muscle recruitment, more elastic recoil in the muscle “anatomy trains.” These protocols are only available in Santa Rosa , CA .
Our doctor-supervised protocols of golf swing enhancement will evaluate your lumbar and cervical spinal range of motion, your shoulder range of motion and muscle recruitment, and hip range of motion. We apply standardized neurological and orthopedic testing to identify problem areas and to get a baseline condition assessment for your frame. If necessary, your vertebral joint condition will be accurately evaluated for pathology and movement with our dynamic x-ray analysis, looking at joint movement in the end range of motion. We apply this in a clinical setting where your information is lawfully kept private, and a differential diagnosis and treatment recommendations are given to you or your doctor if any health problems are found.
Our Santa Rosa clinic, 5 th Street Spine, developed our unique protocols for golf swing enhancement after studying and applying techniques utilized around the world, then we put these protocols in a specific, golfer oriented clinical setting, with the accuracy and record keeping inherent in a doctor's office. We are expecting results from each of our golfers.
“Comprehensive muscular development is the first step toward improving your golf game and avoiding physical setbacks. The second step is to do more specialized stretching, strengthening and sequencing exercises that take your golfing abilities to higher performance levels.” Shark.com
As your spinal, hip, and shoulder range of motion improves, you start to notice longer drives, pinpoint accuracy, and more fluidity of motion. How would it feel, three months from now, if you were to play consistently with a lower score, with less pain, and more accuracy? Picture yourself surrounded by the approbation of your partners as you drive the ball farther and down the middle.