This one’s for the manual therapists out there. A brief little review of 2 landmark papers pertaining to fact joint pain and referral patterns.
Accept this challenge and continue providing evidence-informed, contemporary care for your patients. Arm yourself with current knowledge and stay ahead of your competition!
An online platform to promote safe hockey as skill enhancement and education are the keys to injury prevention.
With Christmas rapidly approaching and shopping days swiftly diminishing, many of you may be looking for last minute gifts to reward yourself with (no need to be ashamed, we all do it!). Therefore, over the next couple of days, I will be profiling several items that may contribute (either directly or indirectly) to sports health [...]
The following post highlights some of the key points provided in the most recent position paper on Nutrition and Athletic Performance. It should be noted that this position paper was produced based on the the current state of the literature and that an Evidence Analysis Process (American Dietetic Association) was utilized to standardize this review. [...]
This is the 3rd of a three part series on Excellence through an examination of Tiger Woods. It is well known that the displacement of a golf shot is a direct function of the club head velocity (CHV) at the point of impact. Now, Linear CHV however, is a function of angular velocity of the club [...]
Knee pain. Knee Injury. “Certain athletes are at higher risk of knee pain and non-contact knee injury than others.” End of post. (just kidding) The above statement is well known but unfortunately, not many of us know exactly why. Thankfully, the American Journal of Sports Medicine gave us some input into the biomechanical reasons some [...]
This is quite a touchy subject and while you may THINK you have a good idea on whether to stretch or not, guess again! By now (2009), most of you think stretching is bad. Some on the other hand, still use “stretching” and “warming up” synonymously (these people probably tug really hard on a slab [...]
The use of compression garments have increased in popularity in recent years thanks in part to Allen Iverson of the NBA, hockey players suffering from adduction-related groin pain, and speedo-clad, energy bar eating, multisport athletes called triathletes. Along with this increase in compression wear have been the recent emergence of what the urban dictionary would [...]
Scientific knowledge expands daily. This article was published in 2008. I started this blog 3 days ago…THEREFORE…the information you are about to read MAY contain concepts that are obsolete…READER DISCRETION IS ADVISED! The following is a summary of the IOC current concepts statement published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine last year. Contained within [...]
I’d like to introduce everyone to a website that I’ve recently started to contribute to. Research Review Service is a great opportunity for manual therapists to stay current with the literature, especially when evidence-based medicine is considered the standard for contemporary health care. Don’t worry, for those of you in the strength and conditioning world, [...]
For my first post, I would like to summarize the developments of the most recent symposium on concussion in sport. This was held in Zurich last year and brought together the “big dawgs” in sports concussion. Since this is merely a summary, I ask that you all read the original document in its entirety as [...]
