Looking for a gift to give to someone who loves basketball? Don’t know what to get them? Performance Health has your back with gifts for pain relief, exercise, and protection.
Shoveling snow sends over 11,000 children and adults to the hospital every year. These injuries come in a variety of forms and that number doesn’t include the countless smaller injuries that go unreported. How can you prevent and treat these injuries?
Out of all the major sports played in the U.S. and globally, basketball may be the one dominated by the best athletes. Lebron James may be the best athlete on the planet and Giannis Antetekoumpo is so athletic he’s known as “The Greek Freak”. Physical ability isn’t the only component of a great basketball player, but it is a major factor. Here are the best exercises for improving every aspect of your game.
Getting off the couch, out of the office, or away from the kids and getting into the gym is hard. When the clock strikes midnight on January 1st, millions of Americans think that this is their chance to become the workout warrior of their dreams. This overwhelmingly does not happen. So, why is it so hard to work out? What can you do to make it easier? And, where do you start?
Push-ups are a staple of fitness routines across the globe. In the U.S., the term push-up was first coined in the early 20th century. Since then, people have gone about perfecting the push-up as well as creating new styles of the iconic exercise, each with their own twist. Some people prefer push-ups that provide an intense challenge where getting one push-up done is a feat of its own. Others want to make the traditional push-up easier to do.
Throwing out your back is a common phrase that people use when they’re experiencing back pain, stiffness, or discomfort. But what does it really mean?
Football players account for 71% of all male ACL injuries in high school athletes. If you play, coach, or treat football players, there’s a lot of information you should know about ACL sprains and tears.
It’s a common misconception that the key to powerful pitching is having a strong right (or left) arm. While this does help, it isn’t the full story. As a pitcher, your ball-velocity is generated from several parts of the body. The three main drivers of speed are the core, shoulders, and legs. Building muscles in these three areas can be the difference between a strikeout and a batter teeing off on your pitch. (Looking for exercises to help hit farther? We’ve got those too.)
There are over 1,000,000 high school football athletes in the USA. There are another 74,000 NCAA college football athletes.1 Even with advances in sports equipment, safety training, and exercise best practices, there are still going to be injuries...a lot of them. Here’s everything you need to know about the frequency and severity of injuries, plus treatment and prevention methods for each one.
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