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How To Avoid The Most Common Volleyball Sports Injuries

[ 2 ] October 16, 2012

  All volleyball players, whether playing sports or training for competition, experience strains, sprains, pulled muscles and tendons. Any sporting activity which requires repetitive jumping and compression of the ankles, specific muscle group overuse, and rapid body weight shifts, has a high propensity for injury. Knowing what preventive steps you, as a player, can take [...]

Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome

[ 0 ] July 8, 2012

Millions of people suffer from patellofemoral pain syndrome or what is more commonly known as runner’s knee. There are several ways to help you over the pain and agony of this common ailment. Patellofemoral pain syndrome is pain that is felt in the front of the knee.  Runners get it because they over use their [...]

Thank God for Sports Medicine

[ 1 ] March 2, 2010

As I hit the big “60″ today I’m thinking about all the times I’ve been injured competing in various sports over the years. I’ve had a broken foot, broken collar bone, broken fingers, numerous sprained ankles, many cases of tennis elbow, rotator cuff surgery, a couple knee surgeries and last but not least numerous trips [...]