Quick answer: Runner’s knee (patellofemoral pain syndrome) causes pain around or under the kneecap, aggravated by running, stairs, and sitting with bent knees. Jumper’s knee (patellar tendinopathy) causes focal pain just below the kneecap at [...]
Quick answer: Athletes should think twice. Many clinics that market themselves as “sports physical therapy” operate on an insurance-driven, high-volume model: capped visits, heavy caseloads per therapist, and generalist care that treats every patient the [...]
Quick answer: Sports science monitoring tools fall into two main groups. Workload monitoring uses microtechnology — microsensors and accelerometers — to measure the physical demands of training and competition, such as accelerations and decelerations. Fatigue [...]
Quick answer: Differential diagnosis is the ranked list of possible conditions a clinician builds from your history and examination, then confirms or rules out over time. It matters in physical therapy because nearly every body [...]
From ranking among Israel’s top two backstrokers at age 15 to a torn ACL on the flag-football field and four knee surgeries, Ariel Osharenko’s road to physical therapy ran through sport, injury, and rehabilitation itself. [...]
After years of treating athletes, these are the four mistakes I see physical therapists make most often: not referring out when another specialist is needed, not spending enough time questioning the client, falling back on [...]
Physical therapy has earned its place in modern medicine — but a high-volume clinic seeing up to 40 patients a day for 15–20 minutes each is not the same as the one-on-one, athlete-focused care we [...]
Quick answer: Successful physical therapists across every setting share the same core principles: question yourself constantly, keep your manual skills sharp, think creatively beyond fixed protocols, communicate and coach well, live the active lifestyle you [...]
Quick answer: Most “overuse” injuries are better understood as training-error injuries — the result of loading tissues faster than they can recover and adapt. In running, about 70% of injuries are associated with training error, [...]
Quick answer: There is no single universally accepted test that proves an athlete is ready to return to sport. Instead, clinicians combine five functional test categories — strength and joint stability, dynamic joint stability (proprioception [...]
