Sports Physicals: Just Check Boxes or Get A Valuable Check-Up

Sports Physicals: Just Check Boxes or Get A Valuable Check-Up

Sports physicals offer golden opportunities to share information and listen to young patients.Sure, they frequently are viewed by parents and young athletes as more annoyance than necessity.It’s easy for sports physicals to turn...
Use These Three Exercises to Help Prevent ACL Injuries

Use These Three Exercises to Help Prevent ACL Injuries

An Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) tear is one of the most feared injuries in sports.Thanks to Chris Phillips, ATC, CSCS of Compete Sports Performance and Rehab for sharing 3 favorite exercises to help prevent ACL tears. Surprising to many, more ACL tears...
Kids Shoulder Pain: 6 Ways of Prevention

Kids Shoulder Pain: 6 Ways of Prevention

Great to have master physical therapist Ziad Dahdul DPT, OCS back to share his thoughts on preventing kids shoulder pain. Ziad writes on kids shoulder pain as an orthopedic physical therapist and owner of Ignite Phyzio & Sports Performance, serving Orange and Los...
Supplements for Young Athletes: 6 Choices to Improve Performance

Supplements for Young Athletes: 6 Choices to Improve Performance

Young athletes can be bombarded with many performance enhancing supplements that claim to build strength and assist in recovery.Use of some supplements can be clouded by lack of true scientific support, side effects, and financial cost.Like athletes have found for...
Dance Discomfort: Deciding to Dial Up a Dance Medicine Specialist

Dance Discomfort: Deciding to Dial Up a Dance Medicine Specialist

Dance discomfort- comes with the territory of doing the usual hard work on the dance floor.Muscles hurt, toes feel cramps, the back is sore.Then there is the mental discomfort- am I jumping as high, as often, as well as I could be?These are common, everyday issues for...