For many athletes, the offseason is a significant time. It’s our time to rest, recover, refocus, and then ultimately, it’s our time to get better.
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Category: Training
Recovery to Boost Your Game
Whether it’s injured or not, there’s one thing you ought to do to help improve your performance: Recover.
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Kyle Harrison’s 7 Lessons Learned from His Ankle Surgery
After ignoring a nagging ankle pain for years, lacrosse star Kyle Harrison of the Ohio Machine team, finally bit the bullet to get it looked at. The result: ankle surgery.
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How to Manage a Sprained Ankle
It may be one of the most painful, debilitating injuries you’ve ever experienced, but remember it’s just a sprain – and it’s treatable.
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Football Protection for Every Position
Football, while fun, is still a rough sport. Despite the helmets, pads, and other protection, injuries are part of the game. The variation of the player’s size, speed, position and physical contact, can play a role in the type of injury.
Football Knee Injury Prevention: What to Do to Prevent an ACL Injury
A diagnosis that football players fear and don’t want to hear: ACL injury.
In football, cutting motions and sharp pivots can put a great amount of force on the knee. As a result, the positioning of the ACL makes it responsible for maintaining the integrity of the knee against that force. Injuries typically happen when a player plants his or her foot on the ground while rotating their body. The ACL absorbs the twisting force across the knee joint and when it can’t handle it anymore, it ruptures.
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DonJoy Performance Partners with D1 Sports Training
DonJoy Performance will be the Official Bracing and Supports Partner of D1 Sports Training Centers to help athletes play longer, heal faster and perform stronger.
Knee Ligament Instability
Ligament injuries are something every athlete wants to avoid as it is a serious injury that can take you out of the game for weeks or potentially the entire season. These injuries are avoidable; you can reduce your risk of a ligament injury by wearing a hinged knee brace.
Understanding The ACL
ACL Tear. The diagnosis every athlete fears and no athlete ever wants to hear. ACL stands for Anterior Cruciate Ligament and it is one of the major ligaments responsible for providing stability to the knee. It connects the thigh bone to the calf bone, and prevents the lower bone from shifting forward.