Rehab
3 Exercises to Alleviate Knee Pain
Knee pain is quite common among athletes, caused by a wide variety of factors, including stress from competition and genetics. To counter knee pain, regularly perform corrective exercises during your [...]
Get Back in the Game After Pulling a Muscle
Pulled a hamstring or quad muscle recently? Don’t let it derail your season. Adhere to these general rehab guidelines, enhance your recovery and return to action sooner than expected. Recovery time [...]
The Athlete’s Recovery Guide
Athletes, you play and work out hard. Now you need to rest, recover and regenerate for your next game or training session. The best professional athletes understand this, but they [...]
Tips to Speed Up Healing of an Injured Wrist
Currently sidelined by a painful wrist issue? From on-the-field work to weight room exercises, healthy wrists are crucial for athletes. (See Get Healthy Faster With Three Injury Recovery Tips.) Below are [...]
The Dwight Howard Project: How D12 Rebuilt His Body for L.A.
When Dwight Howard got traded to the Lakers this past summer, the best center in basketball found an opportunity for a fresh start. Howard's divorce from the Orlando Magic was [...]
Cure and Avoid Low Back Pain With These Rehab Techniques
Up to 80 percent of the world suffers from back pain, specifically lower back pain, at one point or another. Although leading an athletic lifestyle usually protects people from common [...]
Basketball Rehab: How Damian Lillard Gained Muscle During Rehab
Damian Lillard, Portland Trailblazer point guard, suffered a fracture in his foot that ended his 2010-2011 college basketball season. Lillard turned the injury into opportunity by transforming the rest of [...]
Simon Dumont and Torin Yater-Wallace Prepare for Their Comeback
At age 16, freestyle skier Torin Yater-Wallace has modeled his career after his mentor, half pipe icon Simon Dumont. A decade apart in age, the X Games medalists have paired up [...]
Back Exercises for Rehab and Performance
Just like athletes, back exercises come in all shapes and sizes and have various strengths and weaknesses. Individual techniques are more effective in different rehab phases, but all help with [...]
3 Steps to Coming Back Better From an Injury
Want to return from a sports injury even better than you were before it happened? It may sound impossible, but it's not. Many athletes have mentally (and in some ways [...]