As stated in the previous blog, cold therapy is vital to use after an acute injury has been sustained or within the first 72 hours post injury. Heat therapy on the other hand, is important to use for chronic or long term injury. After the 72 hour period post injury, heat therapy plays a vital [...]
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I’ve reviewed the benefits of Inversion Therapy and the use of inversion tables in a prior blog. For people that travel often and still need the back pain relief offered by inversion therapy there’s a new product from Teeter Hangups that can travel with you. This new product is also good for people like me [...]
Shoulder Pain can be caused by a wide range of injuries or conditions. The shoulder joint itself is an extremely mobile joint with very low stability, leaving it open to injuries such as dislocations. The shoulder girdle (the joint itself, plus the AC joint, Scapula and surrounding muscles/ligaments/tendons) is also heavily involved in upper back [...]
Tennis elbow braces and golfers elbow braces come in many different shapes and configurations. In a recent blog we reviewed some of the most popular tennis elbow braces on the market. They all have common characteristics: Changing tasks will change the amount of elbow strain and the amount of pain The tighter the brace, the [...]
All modern gyms and physical therapist’s offices have some form of a slant board or incline board. Slant boards are used by athletes, rehab specialists and personal trainers to effectively stretch calf muscles and rehabilitate injuries such as shin splints, plantar fasciitis, heel spurs and achilles tendonitis. Any athlete should consider using a slant board [...]
Selecting a shoulder brace is not an easy process. You can select a shoulder support for any shoulder injury and in varying support levels for each injury. Shoulder braces are also difficult to size correctly because every person has a different body type (i.e. thin/heavy,short/tall,male/female,muscular/normal). Since most shoulder braces are sized using simply chest circumference [...]
Welcome to my Return2Fitness Sports Medical blog site. We discuss Sports Medicine topics including injury resources and information about braces, supports,insoles,cold & hot therapy, electrotherapy, inversion therapy, wobble boards and more…If you have any any ideas for future topics or anything you’d like to share about what I’ve posted please let me know. ~Bruce the [...]
Most golfers go right to the driving range and start pounding balls. I know from personal experience that this practice can produce two negative consequences. Since a good golf swing is predicated on a flexible range of motion, your swing will not flow freely until you are completely warmed up after a couple holes. For [...]
Postural issues are a big contributor to many different injuries. Poor posture itself can be caused by many things, but in most cases, a very sedentary lifestyle, poor training techniques and the use of high heels etc are the main culprits. Injuries related to poor posture tend to be overuse injuries which build up over [...]
