As a Physical Therapist, I have seen countless injuries that are due to avoidable predispositions. There are common patterns of compensations, muscle weakness, and muscle tightness that we see over and over again. These patterns can then lead to injuries, ranging from mild discomfort to severe, debilitating pain.
When treating my patients, I often hear “I never knew that muscle existed” or “I didn’t know I was supposed to do it like that”, and my response is always “Well, how could you have known?” My goal with Kaz Injury Prevention is to give you the knowledge of common deficits that you may face, how you can overcome them to reduce your chance of injury, and if you do experience pain what you can do for it.
Injury Prevention is not just learning about how your body works, it’s also about learning how to listen and move your body in the right ways. They say that “motion is lotion” for your body, so let’s get up and moving and get ahead of pain and injury.
The Battle Against Avoidable Injuries
My name is Ceili Kacmarcik-Jaenicke and I am the creator of Kaz Injury Prevention. I got my Doctorate of Physical Therapy at the University of Dayton, Ohio, but was born and raise in the PNW. I currently work as a PT at Premier Physical Therapy in MillCreek, but I am also a certified personal trainer and a professional dancer with the Seattle Irish Dance Company.
I was a competitive Irish dancer for over 13 years, even making it to the World Competition in 2018, held in Glasgow, Scotland. Dance was my life, and although I still dance professionally to this day, my dance career was not free from injury.
Going to physical therapy as a child led me down the path of becoming a PT myself. Although I love what I do and being able to help those in need, I found that I was only given the opportunity to help those already experiencing pain. During my time as a PT I have treated countless injuries, many of which are born from common patterns of weakness, compensations, and poor body mechanics.
It became a goal of mine to provide this knowledge of what can be done to reduce someone’s risk of injury BEFORE it impacts them. All walks of life experience unique patterns that can put them at risk: from someone who works at a sedentary job, to an athlete. There are always common patterns of injuries that can be targeted, to reduce the chance that they would feel the debilitating pain that my patients come into the clinic for.