Hi listeners, old and you, coach Kevin Donne here with another weekly injection of fitness facts.

This week's episode is centered around an eyebrow raising experience I had recently with a couple of different physical therapists.

In my quest to always understand, rather than blindly follow, I couldn't

help myself but to try and unravel the mysteries of their recommendations. If you're a long-time

listener of the show, thank you, you will know that I play a few different sports. I do gymnastics,

judo and karate mostly, but I also enjoy the anti-aging hedge of resistance training.

So it's fair to say that my physical avatar has some ongoing wear and tear.

I had some knee surgery in 2011 that affected my gait,

so I have pain often in my hip and glute on the same side.

In the last couple of weeks, I've seen a couple of different people, both of whom recommended

protocols that I would have considered to be pseudoscience.

So with their definitive claims that I needed to do these protocols to recover and that their

patients all see relief from doing them,

was it the case that I was the one who was misinformed and biased?

Join me today as I take a look at foam rolling and wet cupping.

I was first introduced to foam rolling at least 20 years ago, so it's been around a while, and was

in fact created in 1970s by Moshe Felden-Kraise, the originator of what was known as the

Felden-Kraise method. The aim of the method was to improve pain and mobility issues.

In 1987, one of Felden-Cray students, a physical therapist named Sean Gallagher,

was hired to keep a Broadway dancing troupe in a conditions where they could dance every single night.

The list led to the deployment of foam rollers across the dancing industry.

Eventually, this made its way into the gym arena via a book called

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