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Nov. 4, 2025
Dr. Tom LaFountain Featured On golf.com
If you are well-versed in the Book of Tiger, certain figures from his (nearly) 50 years on this earth are so familiar to you no surname or ID is required.
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Oct. 22, 2025
Non painful structural problem
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Sep. 25, 2025
Difficult foot problem
Transferring body weight in all athletes, especially golfers, is extremely important for your movement pattern to be efficient. You must transfer your weight and control your center of gravity.
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Aug. 15, 2025
Peak challenges
We are at Caves Valley Golf Club in Baltimore, Maryland for the second leg of the FedEx Playoffs.
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Jul. 24, 2025
A pain in the neck.....
Neck pain can disrupt everything you do as a golfer. Aside from neck pain disrupting your sleep patterns at night it can completely change or compromise golf swing mechanics.
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Jun. 27, 2025
Intensity build-up challenges the body
There are many great tournaments on the PGA schedule each year. Certain events draw golf fans’ interest due to field strength, personal player favorites, or the particular venue the tournament...
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May. 7, 2025
Healing-When is it complete?
When an athlete sustains an injury the sports medicine specialist will establish a comprehensive treatment and rehabilitation regime.
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Mar. 7, 2025
Foot Pain
Foot pain in all professional and amateur golfers can disrupt sequencing components of a golf swing. All bodily forces of a golf swing start and end with the ground-foot relationship.
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Jan. 26, 2025
Pebble Beach: An early season test
It is early in the 2025 PGA season and all of the big names are due to begin the season in Pebble Beach.
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Sep. 17, 2024
Challenging your treatment capabilities
Lower back pain is an ailment professional golfers deal with on a frequent basis. Whether it is acute or chronic it must be alleviated, controlled, or it can be career ending.
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Dr. Tom LaFountain Featured On golf.com

Non painful structural problem

Difficult foot problem

Peak challenges

A pain in the neck.....

Intensity build-up challenges the body

Healing-When is it complete?

Foot Pain

Pebble Beach: An early season test

Challenging your treatment capabilities

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— Jim Furyk

— Phil Mickelson

— Dustin Johnson

— Matt Kuchar

— Russell Henley

— Tiger Woods

— Jack Nicklaus

— Arnold Palmer

— David Toms