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Why Trigger Point Dry Needling can help endurance athletes

Have you ever had a slight throbbing in your foot suddenly begin during a run? You’re a few miles in to your run, and there it is.  Each step sends a little bit of pain up your leg, and...read more


Sports

3 ways proper injury reporting benefits athletes

Last Tuesday night (12/3/2013), some of our Sports Med staff participated in a Twitter chat about athletic injury reporting. If you haven’t ever seen a Twitter chat before, it’s quite the rodeo.  People’s fingers fly as they frantically type...read more


Sports

ACL Tears Part 2: Why women are 3.5 times more likely to tear an ACL than men

Perhaps, that number shocks you: 3.5 times more than men.  Well, to a certain extent, it should.  But some people claim even higher numbers up to eight times as likely, though the data do not necessarily support those claims. ...read more


Sports

Jackie’s ACL surgery 14 years ago got her across an Ironman finish line

The goal was simple: to complete the 2010 Austin, Texas Longhorn 70.3 Ironman in six to seven hours.   The time wouldn’t set any records, but just the idea of entering an Ironman competition may have seemed ludicrous to Jackie Mohr fourteen...read more


Sports

ACL Tears Part 1: What are they, and did you tear yours?

As the fall sports season ramps up, I see more athletes in the office who are worried that they may have torn an ACL. It’s not that sports cause ACL injuries, but let’s face it, the more you move...read more


Sports

6 tips to avoid running injuries

(Article via RRStar) After surviving a long, hard winter and much of a cold, wet spring the warmer weather has arrived! Better weather means more people will be lacing up their running shoes and heading out to the recreation...read more