Sports Medicine

Iliotibial Band Syndrome
Iliotibial band syndrome is a leading cause of knee pain among athletes. Usually, it is caused due to overuse of the iliotibial band. Here is some information about iliotibial band syndrome.

Sports Injuries can Affect Long-Term Health for Short-Term Gains
Athletes in major sporting events are often prone to injury, sometimes resulting in debilitating conditions that will affect them for the rest of their lives.

Causes of Soccer Injuries
Soccer ground can be a source of different types of injuries. But how do these injuries occur? Read about causes of soccer injuries.

Playground Injuries
Playing is an excellent form of exercise and recreation activity. However, you may get many different injuries while on the playground. You should know about common playground injuries, so that you can prevent them.

Physical Therapy Treatment for Sports Injuries
An athlete who is suffering from a sports injury can be effectively treated using physical therapy, one of the effective methods that facilitate speedy recovery and helps athletes to quickly return to sports. Physical therapy treatment for sport injuries includes a variety of modalities such as hot packs, cold packs, electrical stimulation and ultrasound to heal the injured tissue.

Sports Massage - Post Event
The purpose of a massage after a major event is to aid the athlete to recover from the exercise. The length of recovery time from strenuous competition can be dramatically reduced with a good post-event massage. Studies have found that correctly applied massage in the first two hours after activity are critical for reducing the effect of delayed onset muscle soreness.

Sports Massage - Pre-Event
Massage before an event can be an integral component of the pre-event preparation for many athletes. Whilst some therapists believe that a pre-event massage can take place up to 48 hours before an event, most Sports Massage therapists considered that a pre-event massage is one given just before the time an athlete is scheduled to compete (typically 15-45 minutes before the event).

Sports Massage - An Introduction
Many therapists offer sports massage on their "massage menu" yet few understand what sports massage is about. When a client comes in requesting a sports massage, some therapists merely react by going in deep. Sports massage is so much more.

Calling All Athletes: Improve Your Game and Your Life By Getting More Sleep
Athletes from the top of the professional ranks to amateur weekend warriors recognize the importance of regular practice and proper nutrition; however, many of them neglect to realize the impact of a good night's sleep upon their game. Furthermore, regular high quality sleep offers a range of health benefits, including reduced stress and increased productivity.

Overtraining In Sports: 4 Danger Signs
Monitor athletes to allow for adequate recovery time to avoid overtraining and maximize windows of optimal training

Overtraining - Part 1
The problem is that overtraining syndromes are not hard to develop with adolescent athletes and must be recognized as an issue with respect to programming.

Speed Training
Much like you wouldn’t expect your son or daughter to pass grade 2 or earn a bachelors degree in just 6 weeks, so to must you understand that optimal and lasting speed improvements don’t come in a short period of time.

Sports Massage - When Should You Get One?
If you suffer injuries often from participating in sports then a Sports Massage may be in order for you. This article goes into the different effects of this type of physical therapy. Read on to learn more.

Injuries Plague the Mets at Spring Training
With more injured teammates than healthy ones, the Mets struggle through spring training but feel they will have enough time to recover and go into opening day in good form.

How Sports Create Confident Girls
There are more positive outcomes from athletics than you may originally think.

Pain and the Sports Enthusiast—How to Get Back in the Game
Love the sport, but hate the pain? For pain and the sports enthusiast, you are not alone. According to the National Institute of Health, in a two year period adults age 25 and over sustained nearly 2.3 million sports and recreational injuries. Here are some ways you can get back in the game following a sports injury.

Overtraining, an Athlete's Secret Enemy
Overtraining can substantially decrease your performance in the gym, thus limiting your results. Read this short article, and learn how you can avoid this problem by spotting symptoms early.

What is the Female Athlete Triad?
The articles discusses Female Athlete Triad?

Sports massage can help athletes stay healthy, perform better and recover faster.
Sports massage is not just an indulgence for spoiled athletes. Even the average fitness buff can gain significant benfits by incorporating massage into a training program.

Understanding Sports Massage
Sports massage is fast becoming an important preparation of athletes before their games, but generally sports massage can be applied to anything and anyone. Its beneficial effects of preventing muscle and tissue damage as well as stretching and warming up the bod is a good preparation before a streneous task.

How a Bit of Guidance Can Increase Strength and Speed in Female Athletes
Strength and speed training are necessary for all atheletes. This article sheds light on female atheletes in particular.

Food and athletes
The love / hate relationship many people, including athletes, have with food.

Bridging the Gap: The Top 5 Fitness Secrets for Housewives and Athletes
Do you think it is possible that an Olympic level athlete and an everyday person can use exactly the same training protocol? The answer may surprise you!

Athletes Bare Their Soles to Beat Injury
Marathon runners and fashion-conscious joggers are turning to 'barefoot trainers' for safer racing.

General: The walking wounded -- Tales of sports injuries past and present
Emergency rooms and urgent care centers of the world beware: --I may visit your facility next.