We’ve both been around elite athletics and the science of training and rehabilitation for years. Rarely does an idea come to our attention that is completely new. Earthing is such an idea. Earthing also called grounding, is sleeping with a blanket that is electrically grounded. The idea being that an exchange of electrons occurs between [...]
As we’ve discussed several times, concussion can be a serious injury. Numerous young people are forced to cut their careers short due to the sequale of this injury. A major hypothesis in rehabilitation has been earlier intervention will decrease long-term disability. Matuseviciene, et al 2013 set out to determine if an extra visit with an [...]
McIntosh and McCory 2005 performed a literature review of head and neck injuries in the sports medicine literature. They surveyed rugby, ice hockey, American football, baseball, soccer, boxing, cricket, horse racing, skiing and snowboarding. One of the major factors that can help prevent head injury was found to be the hardness of a surface. They [...]
Most of the articles we cite as the basis of our practice have grounding in scientific principles. Beliefs and expectations are far less concrete but anyone who has set foot in any competition or rehab room knows full well that beliefs change the game. This area is clearly controversial given how difficult it is to [...]
The American Medical Society for Sports Medicine released their position paper on concussion in 2010. You can find it here. They report that the rate of concussion in sport play is 0.14-3.66 per 1000 in high school and 0.5-3.0 in college sports. The position paper goes on to review on-field analysis, side line analysis and [...]
Brooks et al, 2010 completed a 5 year survey of skiers and snowboarders and the injuries they sustained. In that time period, over 6 million skier days were recorded. A total of 16945 injuries were recorded for a rate of 2.68 per 1000. Of them, 308 were cross country skiing and 1856 people did not [...]
McMullen and Uhl in 2000 published an interesting piece on using the kinetic chain concept to rehabilitate shoulder injuries. Laying the frame work, they discuss how the body integrates movement proximal to distal to apply force or velocity to an object (racket, ball) or a player (boxing, wrestling). When a shoulder is injured, the proximal [...]
Stroke rehab has a pretty limited playbook. Keep in mind, by the time a therapist sees the client, the brain damage has been done and it’s during the window of rapid adaptation and new neural pattern formation that they try to maximize connections in neighboring brain regions to regain maximal function. One of the new [...]