Return to Sport – Plan to Turn Injury Tears into Comeback Cheers

Return to Sport – Plan to Turn Injury Tears into Comeback Cheers

The following post on Return to Sport is from the Fall 2018 Orange County Magazine I often get asked how to determine when a young athlete should return to sport after injury. In many cases, injured young athletes tend to heal quickly. However, in a worst-case...
Sports Schedules: Is There a Safer Peak Number of Hours Per Week?

Sports Schedules: Is There a Safer Peak Number of Hours Per Week?

Wondering if your child’s sports schedules are putting them at risk for overuse injuries? Have an injured child and thinking that too much sport activity may have been a cause? Feeling overwhelmed as a sports parent and want to know when to say stop to all those...
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 into automatic answers to a list of...
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...