Athletes may want to listen to the ATC afterall

There is a presentation in the Supplement to the Journal of Athletic Training entitled Anterior Compartment Syndrome and Tibial Stress Fracture in a Lacrosse Goalie. This is a case study that: 1)underlines the use of injury prevention techniques to help reduce injury potential, and 2)highlights an unique cause of anterior compartment syndrome, which is generally [...]

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Apophyseal Avulsions at the Pelvis in the Teenage Athlete

The weekend before Memorial Day weekend, I helped to cover a soccer tournament. We have a good group of folks that work together and it is fun to work with a group of athletic trainers in the athletic setting. Usually the event is rather – well, uneventful. Not so this last go around. Unfortunately the [...]

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Assess and Correct Product Review

Late in 2009, I purchased Assess and Correct: Breaking Barriers to Unlock Performance by Eric Cressey, Mike Robertson, and Bill Hartman. It has taken me a while to develop a review of this product because I have wanted to go over the information and be able to put it to use a little bit first. [...]

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Core Exercise Prescription for Failure?

Working in the industrial setting, many employees have an interest in preventing low back injury. They have heard that the key to a healthy back is a strong core. So the conscientious employee – wanting to take care of his/her body – sets out on course to strengthen their core. So far, so good. Unfortunately, [...]

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Foam Rolling and Stretching Analogy: A Ball of Dough?

Using the foam roll as method of massage and myofascial release is common in the strength and conditioning field as well as in the fitness and personal training industry. It probably isn’t as common in the athletic training setting, particularly in the injury rehabilitation venue. However, as athletic trainers, w need to become more knowledgable [...]

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Youth Pitch Counts: Do pitch totals tell the whole story?

I came across a newspaper article promoting a youth baseball clinic in West Michigan over the weekend. The fact that former Tiger great Jack Morris was going to be there caught my eye but in reading of the article, some quality injury prevention tips jumped out at me. There was something in particular that intrigued [...]

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Proper Execution of Core Exercises

Stuart McGill is one of the foremost experts of the spine in the world. He is an advocate of training the spine while neutral and continually explains to all who will listen about the ineffectiveness and dangers of exercises such as the crunch or sit-up. I have read his material and listened to him speak [...]

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Energy Leaks

As an athletic trainer, we are all familiar with the principle of the weakest link. A related term that I have become more familiar with lately is the term energy leak. Gray Cook, in his book Athletic Body in Balance, states that an energy leak occurs “when all of the energy generated to perform a [...]

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Running and Injuries: A book, a study, and what we think we know

Over the Christmas and New Year holidays, I read the book Born to Run by Christopher McDougal. I heard about this book while listening to a webinar and gave it a read. This best-selling book has obvious appeal, but as an athletic trainer, I found the book to be a very interesting read. On the [...]

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Looking for an excellent exercise resource?

As 2010 is now here, I have several books on the proverbial wish list to purchase this year. One of those – The Men’s Health Big Book of Exercises by Adam Campbell, MS, CSCS – I picked up yesterday. This book just came out and comes in both a men’s and women’s edition. (A quick [...]

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