Rehabilitation
Can a 10-Minute Warm-Up Prevent ACL Tears?
Risk of injury is something all athletes face when they put on a uniform. Some injuries—like ACL tears, for example—require expensive surgeries and prolonged rehabilitation—meaning weeks or months away from [...]
Soccer Players: Kick Hip Flexor Pain
If your favorite sport involves sprinting or kicking, you may experience hip flexor pain. Located in the front upper thigh, the hip flexors include the...
What to Eat to Stay on the Field this Football Season
Diet for Teenage Football Players: Healing and Maintaining Muscle Foods/Beverages Throughout the Season By Jim Carpentier, CSCS Attention teenage...
A Tight Back May Hurt Your Performance and Health
Having optimal mobility is needed for optimal power. If muscles are too tight or restricted, this reduces your power capabilities. It can also result in...
Simple Ways to Treat or Prevent an Ankle Sprain
A sprained ankle is one of the most common joint injuries, prompting many athletes to consider it "just a sprain" and not treat it with the respect it deserves. The [...]
Bodhizone’s Unique Approach to Fitness and Injury Prevention
Dr. Scott Weiss The main goal of every training program is to ultimately prevent injury. Yes, you want to improve your fitness, but staying healthy and injury-free should [...]
The Most Underutilized Piece of Equipment for Healthy Shoulders
Since it does so much pushing, pulling, throwing and lifting, both in everyday life and in the gym, the shoulder joint takes a beating. And since it has the largest [...]
ACL 101: Get a Leg Up on The Nastiest Knee Injury
Tears of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL)—one of the four major knee ligaments—are among the most devastating injuries for athletes at any level because of the lengthy and costly rehabilitation. [...]
Soccer Injuries: The Psychological Response
The majority of competitive soccer players suffer an injury at some point in their careers. Each soccer injury is unique, presenting its own set of complications, limitations, physical and mental [...]
What Happens After an ACL Tear?
Every year between 250,000 and 300,000 athletes undergo the long and arduous process of recovering from an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear, according to Dallas Mavericks team physician Dr. Tarek [...]