{"id":1927,"date":"2013-03-12T14:53:29","date_gmt":"2013-03-12T20:53:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/?p=1927"},"modified":"2013-03-12T14:55:03","modified_gmt":"2013-03-12T20:55:03","slug":"1927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/2013\/03\/12\/1927\/","title":{"rendered":"PT Professor interviewed about golf fitness in The Tennessean"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\"\"<\/a>Dr. Mike Voight, professor of physical therapy at Belmont University, was featured today in the sports pages of the Tennessean (http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/article\/20130312\/SPORTS11\/303120022\/2072\/SPORTS<\/a>).\u00a0 Rich Hayes interviewed Voight and Lance Gill, the head athletic trainer at the Titleist Performance Institute in Oceanside, CA for his Midstate Golf Notebook which is featured regularly in the paper.\u00a0\u00a0 He inquired about golf fitness.\u00a0 Voight also serves as a consultant with Titleist Performance Institute.<\/p>\n

The printed article is included below:<\/p>\n

from The Tennessean<\/strong>
\nby Rich Hayes<\/strong>
\nMidstate Golf Notebook<\/strong>
\nMarch 12, 2013<\/strong><\/p>\n

Men, it\u2019s time to roll out the yoga mat. Women, you all need to hit the weights.<\/p>\n

That advice comes from two leaders in the field of golf fitness: Dr. Michael Voight, a professor of physical therapy at Belmont University; and Lance Gill, the head athletic trainer at the Titleist Performance Institute in Oceanside, Calif.<\/p>\n

I met with both men recently at Dr. Voight\u2019s golf laboratory at Belmont. (Yes, Belmont has a golf lab.) They urged recreational golfers to follow the example of touring pros and spend more time on their physical conditioning.<\/p>\n

\u201cAt a country club, roughly 40 percent of membership can\u2019t play golf at any given time because of injuries,\u201d said Dr. Voight, who serves on the advisory board of the Titleist institute.<\/p>\n

He and Gill have worked with some of the world\u2019s best golfers, including Luke Donald, Rickie Fowler and Padraig Harrington. Last year, 32 out of 42 PGA Tour wins were associated with a Titleist fitness team.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe personally both work with 10 to 15 guys directly on tour\u2026their fitness level correlates directly with their success,\u201d said Gill, who was in Nashville for evaluation of his own sports injury. He added that \u201cfitness does not mean we\u2019re in a gym pushing around weight and hurting ourselves and getting sore.\u201d<\/p>\n

I hoped to share a few of their go-to exercises today, but Gill said there is no \u201cgolden routine.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe make each person an ideal program for them. It\u2019s targeted specifically to whatever impairment they have. Poor motor patterns are centered around physical limitations. If we get rid of the physical limitations, the motor pattern can be fixed.\u201d<\/p>\n

In his Belmont lab, Dr. Voight studies a golfer\u2019s physical potential with high-tech monitoring devices. One involves sticking magnetic reflective balls on the body. Multiple videos cameras capture infrared signals, which are converted into a 3-D computer swing sequence.<\/p>\n

A different gadget has radio transmitters that attach to the body. Another has electrotransmitters that can be strapped on to the upper and lower back and wrist.<\/p>\n

He said his tools allow him to catch what teaching pros miss with traditional video cameras.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat we do is like using an MRI\u2026we go deeper to see everything that is going on,\u201d Dr. Voight said. \u201cWe could tell you what your swing fault is without ever seeing a person pick up a club. It\u2019s that telling.\u201d<\/p>\n

He and Gill aren\u2019t suggesting that golf instructors are obsolete. Swing coaches need to be part of the assessment team, so they understand the physical limitations of their students and adapt swing fixes as necessary.<\/p>\n

The goal is to maximize efficiency \u2014 basically, to get the most out of a golf swing given the body\u2019s limitations.<\/p>\n

The biggest hurdle for men is a lack of mobility. Men often have a limited rotation of the hips and thoracic (mid-to-upper) spine. Golfers often compensate with swing flaws that can cause lower-back pain, the most common injury in golf.<\/p>\n

Thus, the general recommendation for guys is yoga.<\/p>\n

Most women are already extremely flexible. They need to focus more on stability exercises, like lunges and squats, to keep their bodies from rotating too much.<\/p>\n

Dr. Voight and Gill will be tough to hire if you\u2019re interested in a one-on-one session. They travel around the world working with their pro clients and teaching others their methods. However, their assessment techniques are available at the Performance Golf Institute in Franklin.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt\u2019s a best kept secret,\u201d said Dr. Voight.<\/p>\n

Learn more at performancegolfinstitute.com.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dr. Mike Voight, professor of physical therapy at Belmont University, was featured today in the sports pages of the Tennessean (http:\/\/www.tennessean.com\/article\/20130312\/SPORTS11\/303120022\/2072\/SPORTS).\u00a0 Rich Hayes interviewed Voight and Lance Gill, the head athletic trainer at the Titleist Performance Institute in Oceanside, CA … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chs","category-physical-therapy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1927"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1930,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1927\/revisions\/1930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forum.belmont.edu\/health\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}