Posts related to youth in sports- injury prevention, rehabilitation, psychology, performance, etc…
Ankle sprains are the most common sports injuries. In physical therapy we help people recover from this often. If you are dealing with an ankle sprain sports injury you know the pain it can cause! So what can you do to take care of the ankle sprain right when it happens? What to do with …
Should I go to the doctor? Probably the worst part about youth sports is when a kid, your kid, gets hurt. Immediately there comes this question, “Are they OK?” Let’s be honest, what we really mean is, can they keep playing or is this something more serious. It is a difficult call to make. Most …
Youth Sports Injuries: Does my kid need to go to the doctor? Read More »
What is sports physical therapy? Sports physical therapy is a specialty in physical therapy which focuses on the athletic population’s recovery from injury. While we are treating the same body, and dealing with the same parts, there is a difference in our approach when working with an athlete. Due to the fact that athletes test …
So your daughter has knee pain and you don’ t know why. Over the past couple weeks we have seen a few younger girls coming into the clinic with knee pain. Parents are obviously concerned why their active and healthy daughter is having knee pain. If there hasn’t been an obvious event which caused the pain, …
Low back pain in athletes can be a crippling condition. It is also one which we can easily overlook. I think this has to do with the fact that so many people have themselves suffered from low back pain. When their young athlete tells them their back hurts, they relate with what they have felt …
A quad muscle strain can be very debilitating for an athlete. I recently experienced this for myself. My Story After 13 years of not playing soccer, I finally put the cleats back on and took to the soccer field as a player. I’d been coaching my kids teams for the past 5 years, but hadn’t …
[mp_row] [mp_span col=”12″] Change Sports Physical Therapy director, Matt Swift, DPT recently had the opportunity to pick the brain of Aaron Brock, ATC, who is the Medical Director of the Olympic gold medal winning, Men’s USA volleyball team. In our longest interview yet, Aaron talks about the importance of developing professionalism in young athletes, injury prevention …
Going for the Gold: Interview with Aaron Brock, ATC Read More »
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