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Posts Tagged Injury

Waves of Consequence

April 27, 2015 by Steve Nakamura
Large Australian Swells Testing Competitive Limits On a recent free surf in Australia, six-time world champ Stephanie Gilmore wiped out with bone-breaking intensity. “I fractured my fibula… I just ejected out of the lip, tried to pin drop feet-first and went straight-legged into the sand,” said Gilmore in an interview during the 2015 Drug Aware […]

Physical Therapy Comes Home

April 22, 2015 by Steve Nakamura
New Study Shows In-home PT Just as Effective as In-patient For knee replacement patients itching to get back home quickly, new research is providing a great prognosis: people who choose at-home physical therapy instead of in-patient rehabilitation after knee replacement surgery do just as well when it comes to complications, long-term pain management and movement […]

ACL Injury Prevention: Crucial New Research Could Keep More Players in the Game

April 7, 2015 by Steve Nakamura
It’s an agonizing, yet all too common scene on Monday Night (or Monday afternoon,  if you live in Hawaii): a wide receiver, crumpled on the turf, clutching his knee, writhing in pain. Injury to the ACL, or Anterior Cruciate Ligament, is one of the most common sidelining injuries for professional football players. According to a […]

Amputee controls two prosthetic limbs by thinking. Wait, what?

March 9, 2015 by Steve Nakamura
Les Baugh was able to use prosthetic arms by simply thinking about it. A Colorado man became the first bilateral shoulder-level amputee to wear and simultaneously control two of the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory Modular Prosthetic Limbs (MPL). Les Baugh was able to operate the system by simply thinking about moving his limbs. […]

Kill All Pain!

February 13, 2015 by Steve Nakamura
A Clinical Pearl by Adriaan Louw, PT, PhD, CSMT There is a wonderful article from Medbridge (medbridge.com) regarding a refreshing pain management strategy. “We know now: pain is a lot more complex and warrants a more comprehensive approach to make meaningful changes in our patients.” “The day I found out that pain is a normal […]

Running Shoe Myths

January 12, 2015 by Steve Nakamura
Gimmicks aside, we can help our patients run faster and prevent injury, there’s just not a magical cure-all shoe to help do it. We would recommend plyometrics drills like box jumps, and spending more time in the weight room to become a stronger and more injury-free runner. Myth #1: Running Shoes Prevent Injury Myth #2: […]

Acetaminophen does NOT effect recovery time in Low Back Pain

November 14, 2014 by Steve Nakamura
Or should that be a question: Acetaminophen does NOT effect recovery time in Low Back Pain? Despite being recommended by more than 15 different Clinical Practice Guidelines (CPGs) for Low Back Pain (LBP) Since 1987, it seems as if maybe Tylenol doesn’t help recovery time. A large and compelling recent study titled “Efficacy of paracetamol […]

For Meniscus Tear, Exercise Therapy Outperforms Surgery

November 3, 2014 by Steve Nakamura
For Patients With Meniscus Tear, Exercise Therapy Outperforms Surgery in Key Muscle Strength Measure In a study that turned the tables on common research that uses exercise therapy evaluate the effectiveness of arthroscopic surgery, used a surgery group as a control to measure improvements in quadriceps strength and neuromuscular function. They write that such improvements, […]

Effective Therapy for Golfer’s Elbow

September 9, 2014 by Steve Nakamura
Researchers from the Nicholas Institute of Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma  found a simple exercise using an inexpensive rubber bar is effective at reducing pain associated with golfer’s elbow, according to a news release. “The success and popularity of the Tyler Twist led us to develop and evaluate an exercise for golfer’s elbow,” lead research […]

Stay Healthy by Playing Less? Dr. Andrews thinks so. You should listen.

August 11, 2014 by ActionPT
Dr. James Andrews is the undisputed rock star of orthopedic surgeons. His personal statistics regarding number of surgeries are mind-numbing. The list of who’s who in professional and collegiate sports he has repaired is unparalleled. The contracts his patients have signed post surgery exceeds a billion dollars. To put it succinctly, Dr. Andrews is the […]
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