Sports Injuries and Prevention

Amplify Your Warm-Up: How to Implement a Dynamic Warm-Up with Female Athletes to Prevent Injuries, Enhance Performance, and Catapult Their Career

Amplify Your Warm-Up: How to Implement a Dynamic Warm-Up with Female Athletes to Prevent Injuries, Enhance Performance, and Catapult Their Career

If female athletes are still starting practice with “two laps and static stretches”, it’s time to amplify their warm-up routine and set them up for success, not injury. Find out how to prevent injuries and enhance performance with a step-by-step dynamic warm-up, like professional coaches and trainers are doing with elite athletes. For many years, …

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Quick Guide for MCL Sprains

Do you have pain on the inside area of the knee after taking a direct hit to the side of your leg? Does your knee feel unstable or loose when you step sideways or pivot? If you’re having pain on the “medial”, or inside area, of your knee, an injury to the Medial Collateral Ligament, …

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What’s That Pain Under My Kneecap? Understanding Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome

Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome That dull, achy, throbbing, sometimes-sharp pain around the knee or kneecap that comes-and-goes based on activity might be a condition known as Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome. Sometimes associated with cracking and popping, patellofemoral pain can range from not-so-bad to debilitating discomfort that causes people of all ages to avoid activities like walking, jogging, …

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ACL Re-injury: A College Athlete’s Journey through a Torn ACL…Not Once, But Twice

Sam’s Story: *Name changed to protect the identity of the athlete. It was early spring of 2020 and Sam was eager to prove herself on the soccer field in an off-season scrimmage against a neighboring university. She chased after a ball and attempted to evade an opponent. She planted her right foot and initiated a …

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