Injury Recovery
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 [...]
3 Exercises to Conquer Cranky Knee Pain
Cranky knee bumming you out? Time to fight back. Knee pain often impacts active people who engage in high volumes of training or spend many hours playing sports. “One of the [...]
‘What Can I Do?’ Is the Most Important Question You Can Ask After an Injury
When training or sports are a huge part of your life, injuries can be a nightmare. Constantly going through the pattern of injury, recover, rehab, and ease back to full [...]
Crucial Steps Injured Athletes Often Overlook as They Rush Back to Action
Return-to-sport protocols are integral in ensuring athletes are healthy and capable of safely performing at the highest level. Sports medicine staff as well as strength and conditioning coaches commonly agree [...]
Scaphoid Fractures: How They Happen, Signs You Have One, and How To Treat It
The scaphoid bone is one of eight carpal bones in the wrist. It is situated on the thumb side of the hand and wrist connecting the two rows of carpal [...]
Just Tore Your ACL? Do These 4 Things Before Surgery
The period after an ACL injury can be a difficult time. While your mind is full of questions as to your future in sport or what procedure to undergo, there [...]
The NBA Is Considering a Short Season. Here’s Why it Makes Sense
“Load Management.” The Toronto Raptors and Kawhi Leonard should take a page from Pat Riley’s book and trademark this term, as they took it from an obscure term to a [...]
4 Ways to Continue Training Hard With an Upper-Body Injury
Injuries happen. If you play hard and train hard, chances are you'll sustain an injury at some point. "No risk, no reward," as they say. And while injuries should be [...]
What Is ‘Load Management’ and Why Does it Matter for Athletes?
Fans, coaches and developing athletes throughout the world now have yet another term to tackle and decipher: load management. Throughout this NBA season, we have witnessed the deliberate shelving of [...]
Why Seeing a Physical Therapist—Even if You Don’t Think You’re Injured—Can Make You a Better Athlete
If you've ever played a sport or engaged in serious strength training, odds are good that you've been injured at one point or another. The trauma could've been anything from [...]