Physical therapists play an important role in today’s society. Therapists have different specialities and work in many different settings, from helping people rehabilitate after devastating injuries like spinal cord injuries, encouraging healthy lifestyles to helping [...]

Sports injuries and the factors that increase the risk of sports injury can be very complication. However, one thing that has been consistently identified in scientific study is that training errors directly increase the risk [...]

Functional training, or as I like to call it, sport specific training, involves training and stressing different body tissues in the way they are stressed in the athlete’s specific sport. Returning to activity, or [...]

Ankle sprains are extremely common in sports. In fact it’s estimated that ankle sprains account for around 30% of all sports related injuries (most are lateral ankle sprains). Ankle sprains are common in athletes [...]

There are many different types of stretching, including dynamic, static, ballistic, assisted stretching techniques, and many others. The amount of current studies and literature that closely examine different types of stretching and protocols is vast. [...]

As someone who has undergone two ACL reconstruction surgeries (one in each knee), I have always been especially interested in the rehabilitation process after this surgery. That being said, as a clinician it's extremely important [...]

One of the most common questions I'm asked as a physical therapist is “Why am I having pain when I don’t have an injury?” This is a good question, especially for a pro athlete [...]

The variety of shoes in this day and age is overwhelmingly big, especially athletic shoes. Almost every sport has unique shoes with special characteristics to match the needs of the sport played. So there [...]