Sports Rehabilitation: Getting Athletes Back to Competition the Smart Way
ProActive Physical Therapy and Sports Medicine prides itself in providing patient care that is focused on returning a patient to his/her previous level of function. It may be a patient who needs to tolerate sitting at a computer work station for 8 hours a day, a grandmother who wants to hold her grandchildren free of debilitating back pain, or the athlete who wants to return to her/his sport ASAP. This article will focus on returning the athlete to his/her previous level of function for a specific sport.
Ever have neck and low back pain with pain and/or tingling and numbness down one or both arms or legs? If you have experienced this, you could have spinal stenosis. Spinal stenosis is a broad term that refers to any decrease in the openings in the spinal canal; it can occur along the entire length of the spine. The most common areas for its occurrence are in the cervical spine (neck) and the lumbar spine (low back) regions. Spinal stenosis can occur in the central spinal canal, putting pressure on the spinal cord, causing central stenosis. Lateral stenosis, where the spinal nerves exit the central spinal canal laterally, through openings called spinal foramina, is the most common form of spinal stenosis.
Summer is just around the corner, and temperatures will soon be heating up. Be smart with your training regimen in the hot days of summer to avoid a heat-related injury, some of which can be life threatening. It is especially important to know your training environment here in San Diego where the temperatures during the summer can vary from the 70°-80°s at the coast; 90°-100°s several miles inland and over 110° in the deserts. Not only is the temperature important but also the humidity level, which, again, can be moderate to high near the coast and very low further inland and arid in the deserts.
Have you had difficulty with knee pain lately? Do you feel pain underneath and around your patella/kneecap after increasing mileage during runs or after training on hills? Do you have pain and difficulty going up/down stairs and curbs? After sitting through a movie, do you have to wait a few minutes before you can get up and walk out of the theater comfortably? If so, you may be suffering from patellafemoral pain, and we, at
