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How to Recover from Training
By using these recovery techniques, individuals can facilitate positive adaptation to stress and continue to improve their performance in sports and training. Remember, recovery is just as important as the actual training itself; without recovery, performance and health will decline.
Lightning Safety for Sports
So, if you think lightning won't strike the athletes you work with, you're probably right. But is it worth the risk? Are you going to explain to the family and friends of the dead athlete how important that one training session was and why it had to happen during a lightning storm? Play it safe – play indoors.
What does Biofreeze do?
Ahhh, Biofreeze. The magic gel. Ask any athlete how it works, and you will get a very undeveloped answer. “You put it on your skin and your pain goes away”. Well, how does a gel that sits on the skin cure injuries that are deep underneath it? The answer is, simply, it doesn’t.
How to Hydrate
Hydration has become a bit of a comical concept to me. Cramping? Hydrate. Tired? Hydrate. Running slowly? Hydrate. What’s next? Want to be a millionaire? HYDRATE!!! Hydration has become the duct tape of sports medicine. Coaches (especially high school football coaches) love to yell, “WATER! WATER! WATER!” during every timeout and at the end of every quarter. While I agree that hydration is important, there is a lot of misunderstanding about how water works in the human body and how it can/cannot improve athletic performance.
Ice Ice Baby
Ice has been on quite the rollercoaster ride when it comes to support in medicine. The once popular treatment has recently undergone scrutiny, largely because of self-titled ‘The Anti Ice Man’ Gary Reinl’s publication ‘Iced’.
Playing Through Pain
Pain is an infinitely curious subject. We, as a scientific community, know so little about the phenomena. Pain's most objective measure to date is through the Visual Analog Scale – a diagram that shows 0/10 pain with a smiley face and 10/10 pain with a crying face.