Our Blog
We are Sports Medicine Professionals . . . and the stories we have heard and the patients and clients we have helped could fill a book. But there is one general set of questions that has caused us to lose sleep. It has plagued our minds for far too long.
Can we help (and teach) more people to live their best lives? Can we prevent injuries on a large scale? What about improve performance? Lose weight?
We believe the answer is yes.
The posts below are our attempt to make sense of exercise concepts that can be difficult to understand and implement.
Eccentric Training
One type of exercise that should be a staple for injury prevention programs is those relying on eccentric muscle actions. But what are eccentric muscle actions and why are they so beneficial? Eccentric muscle contractions refer to those muscle actions that involve...
Rehab Things
Many of the exercises in our injury prevention programs benefit from the use of heavier weights, resistance bands, or stability balls. One location to find these products is at Rehab Things. This site only includes products as curated by a sports physical therapist....
Repetitions In Reserve
One of our eight principles of program design is the idea of progression. For a program to be effective, the body must be steadily overloaded in a progressive manner. This improves results, but it also trains the body to tolerate higher and higher workloads. One of...
Prehab
What if there was an exercise, or a group of exercises that if done consistently, addressed a common area of weakness or one that often gets injured? That is one definition of prehab and it is one of the areas of focus for Injury Prevention Project. But prehab is more...