Shoulder Rehab device heads to St. Louis and Upgrade your Blog with the WPAU Plugin

June 16, 2008 · Posted in Blogging, Entrepreneurship, The Rotater 

I’ve been busy, busy, busy (this is my very weak attempt to excuse my lack of posting here at soupornuts.com).

The Rotater is attracting international attention. Two highly respected physicians from the U.K. have contacted us about our shoulder rehab and stretching device and have expressed an interest in distributing the Rotater in the U.K. One of theses physicians ( a distinguished orthopedic surgeon who specializes in shoulder injuries ) has ordered a Rotater for testing and evaluation. We are very excited.

The Rotater Guys go to the NATA conference in St. Louis

The Rotater is Going to St. Louis

(photo used courtesy of merfam)

Scott Kay and I will be in St. Louis ( June 17–21 ) at the America’s Center Convention Center (booth #2242) for the National Athletic Trainer’s Association’s annual convention to demonstrate and answer questions about our shoulder rehab and stretching device – the Rotater. This should be another great opportunity for us to make the sporting world aware of the benefits of stretching your shoulder with the Rotater.

Scott unveiled a very crude prototype of the Rotater at the 2006 NATA annual conference in Atlanta. This initial showing was a viability test for the Rotater. The response of these sports professionals was beyond our wildest dreams and provided the motivation for refining the design, producing a mold and proceeding to mass production.

If you’re coming to the NATA convention or live in the St. Louis area, then please stop by booth #2242 and say hi. I’d love to meet you.

Shoulder Rehab Device at the ACSM in Indianapolis

(this is me and Scott at the ACSM conference in Indianapolis)

WordPress Automatic Uprgrade Plugin Saves “Shoulder Performance & Rehab”

After returning from Indianapolis a couple of weeks ago, I started having problems with Blogjet / Wordpress – but only on our blog – Shoulder Performance & Rehab. I sent an inquiry to the support staff at Blogjet ( I love Blogjet and they have very good customer service ) and was informed that I needed to upgrade my WordPress software. Sadly, I was running version 2.02 and had been putting off this dreaded task.

I have done some research into the WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin in the past, but was never really convinced that something terrible wouldn’t go wrong and cause me to lose everything. Now I had no choice.

  • I down-loaded the WPAU
  • I uploaded it to my plugins folder as directed
  • I activated the plugin
  • WPAU walked me through the entire procedure
  • Everything worked perfectly

Ten minutes and I’m done. It was simple, filled with instructions and explanations. If you’ve been putting off a badly needed upgrade, don’t wait any longer. Down-load the plugin and get it over with.

Soupornuts.com is next on the upgrade agenda – if I can just make time to do it.

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4 Responses to “Shoulder Rehab device heads to St. Louis and Upgrade your Blog with the WPAU Plugin”

  1. Stephen Hopson on June 16th, 2008 8:06 pm

    I continue to follow you and wish you the very best with your endeavors. Congrats on making inroads with the “Rotater.” I’m glad to see its popularity grow by leaps and bounds. That’s got to be quite exciting.

    With regards to the plug-in, I had the same reservations at first b/c I was concerned, like you, about something going wrong. But I bravely downloaded it a few months ago and have had no problems with it except when I tried to upgrade to 2.5. I had my new server upgrade it for me.

    But hopefully the next time a new version rolls out, I’ll give it another shot. The strange thing is that this plug-in works well for upgrading plugins themselves but until WP version 2.5 came around, I had no problems with it. Go figure.

    Onward and upward!

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  2. Peter | Pick The Brain on July 9th, 2008 3:48 pm

    Hi Chris,

    Great to hear the rotater is receiving international attention - how exciting for you! And I share your opinion of the Wordpress Automatic Update plugin - very quick and easy to use.

    Peter

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  3. Chris Melton on July 12th, 2008 9:58 am

    HI Peter,

    I’m sorry for the delay in responding to your comment - but the Rotater is keeping me extremely busy as you can tell by my lack of posting here.

    I have several articles on the drawing board, but little time.

    I can say that we will begin to be listed in several sports medicine catalogs and the Rotater is being used by five NFL teams.

    Thanks for stopping by. I’ll get over to PTB soon.

  4. Peter | Pick The Brain on July 12th, 2008 10:16 am

    Hi Chris,

    No problem. I’ve been pretty busy myself. Our second son was born on July 4. How’s your little one?

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