Tag: Prevention
Why Female Athletes Have More ACL Injuries Than Males
Female athletes rupture their anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) more frequently than males…nearly 6-8 times more! In a case like this, health insurance [...]
Best Off-Season Conditioning Strategy for Serious Soccer Players
Every year, as Summer approaches and many sports are winding down for a brief rest period, supportive parents of serious athletes ask, “What should I [...]
3 Ways to Protect Your Players’ Knees in 3 Minutes
In this series, I’ve put together 3 exercises showing 3 different components of training that will help to strengthen your legs and protect your knees [...]
An Injury Prevention and Performance Secret Revealed
You have 60 SECONDS before the most competitive event of your life… What do you do to optimize performance and safe execution?
In the final minute [...]
Why You Should Strengthen Your Hip Muscles
Have you ever wondered why you need to strengthen your hip muscles? Hips were the forgotten link for a long time, but now we put a lot of focus on the [...]
What exactly is a pulled hip flexor?
Chances are, that pain is probably not from a pulled hip flexor.
Hip impingement, also known as femoroacetabular impingement syndrome (or FAI), is [...]
5 Tips on the Art of Preventing Ankle Sprains
Ankles are anatomically stabilized passively with ligaments and actively with muscles that cross the ankle complex. An ankle sprain occurs when the jo [...]
Goalkeepers Get Injured Too!
When we mention soccer and injuries in the same sentence we tend to think of ankle sprains, torn ACLs and other injuries that are specific to the lowe [...]
ACL Injuries – Get to Know the Risk Factors
The Anterior Cruciate Ligament, commonly referred to as the ACL, is a dense band of tissue that provides stability to the knee. Fibers of the ACL can [...]
Recover Faster, Injury or No Injury: FDM Q and A with Dr. Chad Wells
It was just another night of pick-up with friends. You know the kind where everyone is out to have fun try new tricks, maybe pull a meg or two. As I a [...]