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Sports Medicine

14 07, 2022

Small but Mighty Muscles

2024-10-29T11:38:32-07:00

By: Dillon Moeller, PT, DPT, FAFS

When you think about overhead strength, you might first think about the bigger upper body muscles like deltoids and lats. However, it is your small but mighty muscles that allow you to perform at the highest level. We talked to Dillon Moeller, PT, DPT, FAFS, about […]

Small but Mighty Muscles2024-10-29T11:38:32-07:00
29 06, 2022

4 Benefits of Eccentric Exercise

2025-01-27T17:29:22-07:00

By: Kimberly Wolf-King, PT, DPT

Think about the activities you do every day – getting up and out of bed, lowering yourself to sit, grabbing a dish from the cabinet and putting it gently down onto the counter. All of these tasks require you to work against gravity, meaning they are all eccentric.

What […]

4 Benefits of Eccentric Exercise2025-01-27T17:29:22-07:00
23 06, 2022

Strength for the Climbing Wall

2024-10-29T11:38:34-07:00

By: Sam Gesicki, PT, DPT, and Carly Szemerey, PT, DPT 

Every discipline of climbing requires strength.

Bouldering presents almost gymnastic difficulty depending on the setter of the problem. Balance, power, and athleticism is required for every moment on the wall. Sport climbing presents the longest time on the wall, so endurance is paramount. There […]

Strength for the Climbing Wall2024-10-29T11:38:34-07:00
10 06, 2022

Perform and Recover Better: Red Light Therapy

2024-10-29T11:38:35-07:00

Professional athletic teams are beginning to dedicate full rooms to red light therapy. Progressive physicians are starting to tout its benefits. Countless studies have been conducted to measure its effectiveness in multiple realms of health. Red light therapy may be a relatively new topic in the medical field, but its benefits are hard to ignore.

NASA […]

Perform and Recover Better: Red Light Therapy2024-10-29T11:38:35-07:00
9 06, 2022

Return to Sport: Finger Fractures 

2024-10-29T11:38:35-07:00

Written by: Holly Hussey, MOTR/L, CHT

The crowd roaring, the adrenaline pumping. You are so close to scoring your team a point, possibly securing the win. You’re on third, and your teammate is at bat. The crack of the ball rings through the stadium, and your legs sprint towards home. You slide hand first rather […]

Return to Sport: Finger Fractures 2024-10-29T11:38:35-07:00
2 06, 2022

Becoming a Leader: Meet K2

2024-10-29T11:38:36-07:00

The Fukuoka Softbank Hawks want to be the number one baseball team in the world. Not just in their league, not even just in Japan- the world. To accomplish that, yes, they need fantastic players and coaches, but they also need a strong team of athletic trainers, strength coaches, and physical therapists to build […]

Becoming a Leader: Meet K22024-10-29T11:38:36-07:00
7 04, 2022

4 Ways PT’s Combat Atrophy After ACL Injuries

2025-01-27T10:14:49-07:00

By: Ben Kelto, PT, DPT, OCS, CSCS

Our bodies are in a constant state of change but like to live in balance. We are constantly building and breaking down muscle tissue at every activity level, however the amount of movement dictates if new tissue is created, or if existing muscle is absorbed. If […]

4 Ways PT’s Combat Atrophy After ACL Injuries2025-01-27T10:14:49-07:00
31 03, 2022

Fuel Like an Athlete

2024-12-09T17:26:26-07:00

By: Landon Davis, CSCS, FRCms

Training like an athlete is one thing, but what about the way we fuel our bodies? Nutrition is important for every human, regardless of whether you are a professional athlete or someone who is trying to remain active. Food is not only the fuel that gets you through your workday or […]

Fuel Like an Athlete2024-12-09T17:26:26-07:00
15 03, 2022

Loading the Tactical Athlete

2025-01-27T10:15:12-07:00

By: Ben Kelto, PT, DPT, OCS, CSCS and Samuel Gesicki, PT, DPT

On and off season, athletes push themselves to their physical limits. Track athletes challenge human capabilities of speed. Gymnasts defy physics. Soccer players meld agility and control to push themselves to perform their best. All athletes push the barriers of human […]

Loading the Tactical Athlete2025-01-27T10:15:12-07:00
23 02, 2022

The Female Athlete: What We Learned

2024-10-29T11:38:44-07:00

In “The Female Athlete: Overdue for Change,” we discussed that so much of the research we have for female athlete comes from treating “females as small males” (Sims, 2019) instead of actually focusing research on the female athlete. This has not served the female athlete community well, and there is a need for […]

The Female Athlete: What We Learned2024-10-29T11:38:44-07:00