BRINGING SCIENCE TO TREATMENT
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Recovery from injury means regaining strength, but injuries also necessitate load modification. Therefore, a load of 60% to 80% of 1 rep max (RM), needed to stimulate hypertrophy and make strength gains, might be too great of a strain on injured tissues. The opposite approach, performing high reps of a low load, may be challenging... MORE
in Email Newsletters, Improve, Musculoskeletal injuries
Hockey player Marc-André Fleury recently demonstrated the extreme ranges of hip motion and pelvic stability a goalkeeper needs to do their job well (see video 1). Historically, hockey players in all positions report of hip and groin problems. However, goalies demonstrate more extremes of hip motion, especially internal rotation, as they contort their legs in... MORE
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A recent newsletter explored the effect of post-exercise cryotherapy on the uptake of protein in muscles. While the immediate use of cooling after resistance exercise might diminish muscle building, it is a common strategy used to decrease delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) after endurance exercise. Muscle cooling post-exercise comes in many forms: Cold water immersion... MORE
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With 14% of United States runners preferring to train on an motorized treadmill (MT), many clinicians using the MT as a tool in gait-retraining, and its role in the collection of sports science data, it is important to understand the differences between running on an MT and overground(1). A group from the Netherlands wondered what the... MORE
When training athletes, resistance training should be executed with the same zeal and importance as skill and endurance training. However, this is rarely the case. Athletes tend to enjoy playing the sport the most and therefore gravitate toward drills and endurance play. Some find being stuck in the weight room boring and fail to see... MORE
in Email Newsletters, Shoulder injuries
A significant aspect of sports injury prevention is understanding the mechanism of injury. Knowing how the damage occurs leads to the development of strategies, such as increased strength or flexibility, which help the athlete either avoid the injury situation or cope with the incident in a better way. Researchers in Dublin sought such information regarding... MORE
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Common sense tells us that athletes who play certain sports tend to suffer particular injuries. However, we lack the data to substantiate which athletes have more particular injury prevention needs. A group of researchers from France undertook the monumental task of surveying the injuries from international track and field championships and categorizing them according to... MORE
in Email Newsletters, Improve, Joint injuries
The sports medicine industry is lately taking a hard look at the reliance on imaging for diagnosis, as well they should. Diagnostic imaging has become a multi-billion dollar industry in the United States(1). The dependence on imaging for clinical decision making decreases the amount of time the practitioners spend with patients and possibly the number... MORE
Soccer is the world’s most-played sport. More than 265 million people play soccer each year(1). The number of soccer-related injuries is growing along with the numbers of players. Nearly one-quarter of these injuries are concussions. Of these, almost one-third are related to heading the ball. The rest of the injuries are the result of player-to-player... MORE
Recreational running is simultaneously held to be the savior of our inactive population and the cause of most musculoskeletal woes. Which is true? Two late-2019 studies present interesting perspectives on this issue. The first, conducted by the Department of Sports Medicine at Goethe University in Frankfurt, surveyed 720 runners participating in a corporate-sponsored 3.5-mile run(1).... MORE
