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Everything You Need To Know About Functional Range Conditioning
There are many sports that people can play for a lifetime like golf, tennis, and swimming. In addition to those sports, there are so many recreational activities and great ways to stay in shape as we age. In order to enjoy sports, leisure activities, and fitness throughout our lives, maintaining optimal physical functioning is essential. ...
After Surgery: What To Expect From ACL Rehab
It can happen to football players, basketball players, moms, runners, and anyone who happens to run, jump, or play sports. Three little letters can be the source of some very big physical problems: ACL. The anterior cruciate ligament is one of the knee’s major ligaments. It can tear as a result of twisting, impact, or...
5 FAQs About Group Strength Training
There are so many reasons to exercise in a group setting—motivation, collaboration, connection, and support are among them. From group settings for spinning, rowing, running, or cross training, today’s communities offer a lot of opportunities for working out with a group. There’s also the option of group strength training, which involves using weights or resistance...
Plyometric Training: What It Is And How It Can Help You Win
In order to shoot a basketball, block a goal, serve a tennis ball, or grab a high line drive, an athlete must be able to jump explosively. In order for your body to land safely, muscles, tendons, ligaments, and joints all have to work well together. Jumping is a key component in so many sports....
7 FAQs About Dry Needling
Acupuncture has been around for thousands of years, with origins in traditional Chinese medicine, and is based on Meridians and the flow of Qi; whereas dry needling is anatomically based and targets dysfunctional tissues. Dry needling has been in use for a few decades, and it’s commonly offered as a modality for people experiencing muscle,...
What Should Be Included In An Injury Assessment
Athletes push their bodies to compete, and sometimes pushing hard in a sport can result in an injury. There are a variety of injuries that athletes might experience. Athletes can sometimes face sprains, fractures, dislocations, strains or concussions. On occasion, an athlete might suffer from inflammation and tendonitis, shin splints, tennis elbow, or knee issues....
An Amateur Athlete’s Guide To Athlete Assessments
In anything from business to education to sports, measuring progress is a great way to ensure positive growth. As an athlete, knowing your baseline measurements and abilities is essential for planning and reaching athletic goals in the future. Athlete assessments can help with personal health knowledge and growth. Through specialized techniques in sports therapy, athletes...
The Beginner’s Guide To Sports Performance
For excellent sports performance, athletes need a combination of elite strength, speed, conditioning, plyometric, and movement patterning . Across all sports, specific skills, extensive endurance, and sensible recovery all come into play. Preparing for sports in the preseason, off-season, as well as rehabilitating post-injury are all necessary parts of athletic training. What truly sets high...
9 Physical Therapy Tips To Boost Your Recovery
It happens to the best athletes, and it can happen to any of us who are trying to stay fit through athletics: injury. Whether it’s an ACL tear, a labral tear, a meniscus tear, or another type of injury, surgery is often necessary to reconstruct or repair. After surgery, a patient’s rehabilitation is essential for...
What Every Athlete Should Know About BFR Training
Blood flow restriction training (BFR) is a modality that temporarily occludes venous and arterial blood flow to stimulate a hormonal cascade within the body.. In recent years, BFR has become quite popular in weight rooms and gyms all over the world. One benefit of this training is that it allows athletes to exercise at a...