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Posts Tagged Sports performance

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 […]

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: […]

10 Ways to Increase Insulin Sensitivity for Better Fat Loss

January 6, 2015 by Steve Nakamura
If you impair your body’s ability to efficiently store glucose, and you’ll be fighting an uphill battle against fat loss. You see, insulin sensitivity and glucose metabolism are directly correlated to your body composition. So with that being said, here are 10 ways you can increase insulin sensitivity and make it easier to change your […]

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 […]

Get out there and get moving!

November 10, 2014 by Steve Nakamura
I don’t have time to workout. I make it. Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Tweet about it Subscribe to the comments on this post Print for later Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend

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 […]

How Arm Fatigue Affects Legs (and Vice Versa)

August 18, 2014 by Steve Nakamura
Can there be “nonlocal” effects of fatigue. Does arm exercise make your legs tired? And does leg exercise make your arms tired? The overall answer, under the right circumstances, seems to be yes. It’s still exactly clear how or why. This is a big topic of research these days, because if we can understand how nonlocal […]
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