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Organized youth sports are becoming more and more popular every year. Currently, there are approximately 45 million children and adolescents participating in organized athletics in the United States. Each year around three and a half million of these participants will be treated for sports-related injuries, and half of those reported…
Spring is here! And with the warmer weather comes the return of baseball. A national pastime, millions of people play every year. As with many other sports, kids are starting younger and playing increasingly more in order to get a competitive edge. This does not always work in the athlete’s…
In 2011 Sue Falsone was hired by the Los Angeles Dodgers to be their Head Athletic Trainer, a major milestone for women in athletic training. Falsone is the first female Head Athletic Trainer not only for Major League Baseball, but in all of men’s professional sports. Hopefully her promotion is…
March is National Athletic Training Month, designed to promote awareness and knowledge of the athletic training profession. Not only athletes can benefit from the profession and this year’s theme, “Every Body Needs an Athletic Trainer,” stresses just that. The United States population is increasingly becoming more active, and injury rates…
February 24th through March 2nd is National Eating Disorders Awareness week. An often very serious and sometimes fatal illness, eating disorders affect 20 million women and 10 million men at some point in their lives. Eating disorders are frequently a challenge to overcome; as they have biological, social and psychological…
Abrupt and life threatening, Sudden Cardiac Arrest (SCA) is the leading cause of death in young athletes. Because they are often assumed to be healthy, it can be a complete surprise when a child athlete has a SCA. What could trigger an otherwise healthy looking individual to fall into Sudden…
As athletes know, all sports have some amount of risk. While chance of injury cannot be completely negated, it can be decreased by proper technique and equipment. For many sports, this includes a helmet. In the following paragraphs I will cover the helmet requirements of common sports. Hockey helmets should…
There has recently been an increase in discussion of illegal substance use in sports, specifically the use of deer antler spray. What exactly is it and what is its supposed purpose? Deer antler spray falls under the category of peptide hormones, growth factors and related substances on the World Anti-Doping…
Physically and mentally sports may place a lot of pressure on athletes. With near constant training and competitions, it is possible to fall into an energy deficiency. This imbalance of calorie consumption and energy expenditure may be intentional or not. The Female Athlete Triad includes disordered eating, osteoporosis and amenorrhea;…
Common in long distance runners, Plantar Fasciitis can be a real pain. Fascia is a fibrous connective material that surrounds the body’s muscles, blood vessel s and nerves, and the plantar fascia runs from the base of the calcaneus (heel bone) to the toes. Fasciitis refers to inflammation, which will…
Aptly named, the Achilles tendon can be a major source of frustration and weakness for many athletes. The tendon connects the muscles of the calf, the gastrocnemius and soleus muscle complex, to the calcaneus bone in the heel. As with all tendons, the Achilles acts as a connection between muscle…
“He’s out of the season with grade 2 Medial Collateral Ligament and grade 3 Anterior Cruciate Ligament sprains, to be repaired arthroscopically next week.” At first, an injury report may not even sound like English. To add to the confusion so many medical terms also have a (sometimes incorrect) “layman’s”…
