The Longevity Protocol — What a TPI-Certified Chiropractor Does for Your Golf Game After 40
Your swing doesn't have to decline with age. Here's how I keep golfers rotating, pain-free, and competitive well past 40 — and why it's really about longevity.
I’m a master sprinter — I compete in the 100m and 200m, and I’m not slowing down. So when a golfer in their 40s or 50s tells me their game is declining and they think it’s just age, I push back. Most of the time, it’s not age. It’s mobility. And mobility, we can fix.
Your swing is limited by your body, not your years
A good golf swing needs rotation — through the hips and through the thoracic spine, your mid-back. Now, as we get older and sit more, that mid-back stiffens up and the hips lose range. When you can’t rotate from where you should, your body steals the movement from somewhere else. Usually that’s the lower back.
So you lose distance, you lose consistency, and you start getting that ache after a round. That’s not aging — that’s a body that can’t turn.
The longevity mindset
Here’s how I want you to think about it. Golf is a longevity sport — you want to be playing well into your 70s and 80s, right? So the goal isn’t just to fix this season’s swing. It’s to build a body that keeps rotating, keeps loading well, and keeps you on the course for decades.
What we do (TPI-certified)
- TPI movement screen — assess exactly how your hips, spine, and shoulders move and tie it to your swing fault.
- Adjustment and mobility — free up the thoracic rotation and the hips so the movement comes from the right place.
- Strength — three sets of the right exercises, a few times a week, to own that range and protect the lower back.
- Recovery and consistency — sleep, nutrition, and showing up. That’s the longevity part.
Fix the body, and the swing follows. I’ve had patients back to golfing pain-free in a couple of sessions once we found what was actually limiting them.
Again, this is Dr. Kevin Tomassini. Let me take you from pain to peak performance.