Running places stresses on the body. Normally, if given adequate rest and time to recover those stresses cause a normal adaptation to running and improve your ability to run. Meaning, you can run further and faster. Which is great! However, there are a large number of runners who are trying to run through injuries, rehabbing … Read more
The idea of sport-specific training has become a huge topic among athletes, trainers and physical therapists. This has become such a big topic that many people have created whole exercise programs that only use exercises that simulate the movements that are done on the field, created course on them for trainers and therapists, and created … Read more
Over the last 30 years, participation in youth sports have increased over threefold in the United States (from 18 million participants in 1987 to over 60 million in 2008 and growing). Unfortunately, the number of multisport athletes have dropped precipitously. Leading to vast quantities of kids to specialize in one sport at early ages as … Read more
Over the last decade, Golfers have begun to look more like a “typical athlete” than the stereotypical golfer of the previous decades. Tiger Woods has not only grown the game of golf to the masses; he has changed the perspective of what a golfer should look like. The new generation of golfers that includes Rory … Read more
Baseball has been played in some form since at least 1344, but the first recognized game was played on June 19, 1856 in Hoboken, NJ. Baseball has been played for 162 years, so why is it that all of a sudden there is an epidemic of kids with shoulder and elbow injuries from throwing a … Read more