Hi all! Hope you are having an amazing week. Check out what is making mine #BETTER: Injured? Having surgery? Consider the role of nutrition in your healing process. Check out this article from Life in Motion Sports Therapy in Arizona. Who doesn’t love the Script Cleveland signs around our city? Now the East Side has a new one. Looking … Read More
Research Roundup: Reactive Agility, Soccer Kicking Performance
Research Roundup- Week of June 13, 2016 What CLE Sports PT is reading to give athletes #BETTER care Relationship Between Reactive Agility and Change of Direction Speed in Amateur Soccer Players. No significant relationship found between reactive agility and change of direction speed, suggesting that reaction training for sports like soccer is more effective. ACL reconstruction in youth athletes results … Read More
Research Roundup: Fatigue, Arthritis, In-Season Strength Training Week of May 30
May 30, 2016: What CLE Sports PT is reading to give athletes #BETTER care Should player fatigue be the focus of injury prevention strategies for international rugby sevens tournaments? During the Rugby Sevens World Series, much more injuries seen in the second half of matches. The proportion of injuries also increased as the tournament went on- probably due to fatigue. The Relationship of Foot Strike Pattern, Shoe Type, … Read More
Research Roundup: Hamstring Injuries; Neck Strength in Football
Research Roundup- Week of May 16, 2016: What CLE Sports PT is reading to give athletes #BETTER care Proximal Hamstring Tendinopathy: Clinical Aspects of Assessment and Management: New ahead of print in JOSPT– a great read and management outline of an injury affecting many athletes. Strengthening the Gluteus Medius Using Various Bodyweight and Resistance Exercises. Explains why glute medius strengthening is important, and compares exercises based on … Read More
Research Roundup: Pain in Marathoners, Second ACL Surgery
Research Roundup- Week of May 2, 2016: What CLE Sports PT is reading to give athletes #BETTER care Prevalence of Musculoskeletal Pain in Marathon Runners Who Compete at the Elite Level. 75% of 199 elite marathoners had running-related pain, most often in the lower leg. Age, experience, and training volume had no effect on the presence of pain in these runners. … Read More
Research Roundup: Concussions in the NBA
Research Roundup- Week of April 25, 2016: What CLE Sports PT is reading to give athletes #BETTER care Concussion Incidence and Return-to-Play Time in National Basketball Association Players. Results From 2006 to 2014. The number of concussions in the NBA hasn’t increased over this 8-year study, but time lost from injury has. In 2006, most players returned to … Read More
Research Roundup: Don’t “Tighten Your Core”
Research Roundup: What CLE Sports PT is reading to give athletes #BETTER care Abdominal Bracing Increases Ground Reaction Forces and Reduces Knee and Hip Flexion During Landing. Many coaches and PT’s teach athletes to “hold the core tight” during certain exercises. But in this study, when athletes pulled their core tight during plyometrics (drop landings), researchers saw increased forces through the athletes’ joints … Read More
Hurt or Burnt Out From Your New Fitness Regimen? How to Fix it
Getting better mentally and physically means challenging your body through your fitness routine. However, there’s a delicate balance between how far to push and when to take a break. At this time of year, it seems we spend lots of time beating ourselves up over poor health choices during the holidays (Skipping workouts for holiday parties? The endless trays of Christmas … Read More
The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Early Sport Specialization- Part 2
In part one of this series, I discussed the myth that single-sport athletes are more successful than multi-sport athletes. I also examined the risks of specializing in one sport too early. See this link if you missed it. So now the question… If specializing in a sport early is not good, then how DO we set our kids up for long-term athletic … Read More
The Good, Bad, and Ugly of Early Sport Specialization- Part 1
The number of multi-sport athletes in the US is dwindling. The young athletes in our country are in a race to specialize in a sport earlier than their peers. This fits right into the American culture of “bigger, better, faster.” We want our kids to excel and we want a success quickly. Some parents dream of their kids getting college … Read More
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