injury prevention
How to Incorporate Acupuncture Into Your Fitness Routine
Whether you're a weekend warrior or a seasoned marathoner, there are many ways acupuncture can benefit your fitness routine. Acupuncture prevents sports- and exercise-related injuries, accelerating recovery post-injury, and relieving [...]
Are You Making This Gigantic Training Mistake?
Corrective exercise is all the fad right now. While lifting weights has its benefits, it still has its drawbacks like pain, stiffness, burnout, and fatigue. This is why you often [...]
16 Injury Prevention Tips For Goaltenders
Goaltenders are good at reading pucks, so reading this would hopefully help your game as a 'go-to' person on the ice!
Preventing Collegiate Arthritis In Athletes
When college-age people come to see me with severely damaged joints, it’s a challenge. High school kids with the same issues are depressing. There are solutions, but they simply are [...]
How Do We Increase Playing Time Without Injury?
The increasing number of injuries in all sports for all ages begs the question: Is the risk worth it? Can the risks be decreased? How do we increase the fun/time [...]
How to Run Forever
I often get this question: "Doc, does running hurt my knee?" The answer is no. Injury hurts your knee. If you have healthy knees, you can run forever. If you [...]
Debunking Common Post-Pitching Treatments
During the midst of this global pandemic, it is easy to become complacent; it is okay to feel anger, frustration, and sadness. I feel those emotions, not for myself, but [...]
Is Your Diet the Reason You Keep Getting Injured?
The last thing any athlete wants is to get injured. Despite sometimes being an inevitable consequence of being an athlete, missing out on training or competition is never ideal. If [...]
Why Triathletes Should Strength Train Every Week
You swim. You bike. You run. However, if you're like most triathletes, you probably don't do much strength training. I believe this to be one of the most common mistakes [...]
Nordic Hamstring Curls: Why Everyone Should Try This Ultra-Challenging Exercise
The hamstrings are some of those muscles that people always seem to have problems with. They're weak. They're tight. They're one of the most common muscles that get pulled or [...]
