Source - Health Day
Although safety precautions are indispensable, there's more to staying injury-free than avoiding flying projectiles and cushioning your falls. Athletes often overlook measures that can protect them from problems like sore knees and sprained ankles.
Source - Medical Xpress
Evidence has been available for decades to suggest that players have fewer knee problems if they play on clay courts rather than hard surfaces over their careers.
Source - Medical Xpress
For a decade, the research has been clear: static, hold-the-pose stretches prior to athletic activity diminish performance and might even open athletes up to injury.
Source - Medical Xpress
Studies have shown that HIIT is more effective at burning calories than a continuous, moderate-intensity exercise like jogging – and for Americans, who list "lack of time" as the No. 1 reason they don't get enough exercise, that's a huge benefit.
Source - Health Day
Physical therapy helps people recover from sports injuries, but it also can help prevent them, an expert says.
Source - Healthline
If you think you don’t have enough time to work out, you may be in luck.
Source - Health Day
Regular exercise might delay a rare form of early onset Alzheimer's disease, a new study suggests.
Source - NHFS
According to the latest research, the single biggest risk factor that predicts whether or not a young athlete gets injured is specialization or competing in one sport for more than eight months a year.
Source - Orthopedics This Week
A new study, “Age-Dependent Patellofemoral Pain: Hip and Knee Risk Landing Profiles in Prepubescent and Postpubescent Female Athletes,” published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine on August 9, 2018, suggests that the progression from prepubertal to postpubertal status in female athletes may have a protective effect on high-risk hip mechanics associated with patellofemoral pain in female athletes.
Source - Physician’s Weekly
For many people with a tear in the rubbery cartilage that cushions the knee, physical therapy may work just as well as surgery in terms of quieting pain and returning the joint’s function, a new study suggests.
