by david | Apr 13, 2014 | sports news, sports physical therapy, strength & conditioning
Great study from Columbia University in New York about how baseball players injure their hamstrings. Seems these injuries happen in the early part of the year. Off season training would seem to be a contributing factor here. Ahmad et al. Major and Minor League...
by david | Feb 26, 2014 | health & fitness, sports physical therapy, strength & conditioning
While quad strengthening might indeed be necessary in those with patellofemoral pain adding movement retraining to quad strengthening is more effective. Nice article in the Journal of Orthopedic and Sports Physical Therapy.
by david | Feb 9, 2014 | health & fitness, sports physical therapy, strength & conditioning
In the past, I have spoken and written quite a bit about stretching. See here, here, here. Recently, the Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research published some more articles demonstrating yet again that stretching does not help performance and that it actually...
by david | Nov 10, 2013 | health & fitness, strength & conditioning
Ever think about running an ultramarathon? Well, researchers from northern California wanted to know just what the exercise behaviors ultramarathoners looks like. These researchers gathered “information on exercise history was (from) 1,345 current and former...
by david | Aug 13, 2013 | endurance training, strength & conditioning
“Master athletes are a great example of successful aging.” There are many ways to improve a runners ability to run. Efficient gait, proper training, strength training . . . wait, strength training? Isn’t that heresy? Runners don’t weight...
by david | Jul 19, 2013 | sports physical therapy, strength & conditioning
Crazy article on additional benefits of icing . . . wow! Stanford researchers’ cooling glove ‘better than steroids’ – and helps solve physiological mystery, too The temperature-regulation research of Stanford biologists H. Craig Heller and Dennis...