Avid Sports Medicine Blog
Water Polo Injuries: Why They Happen And How To Recover
Key Takeaways Water polo injuries often come from a mix of overhead throwing, swimming volume, eggbeater kicking, contact, and fatigue. Common injury areas include the shoulder, head and face, hand and wrist, hip and groin, knee, and low back. Prevention should...
Common Hiking Injuries: What Hurts And How To Recover
Key Takeaways Common hiking injuries often involve the feet, ankles, knees, calves, hips, and back because trails demand endurance, balance, and repeated load. Blisters and ankle sprains are among the most commonly reported hiking injuries, but knee pain, heel pain,...
Flag Football Injuries
Key Takeaways Flag football injuries often happen during sprinting, cutting, landing, flag pulling, reaching, and accidental contact. Common injury areas include the fingers and hands, ankles, knees, hamstrings, calves, shoulders, head, face, and neck. Injury...
Lacrosse Injuries: Common Risks, Recovery, And Prevention
Key Takeaways Lacrosse injuries often come from cutting, dodging, contact, stick checks, shooting, sprinting, and fatigue. Common injury areas include the ankle, knee, hand, wrist, shoulder, hip, groin, hamstring, back, head, and face. Prevention should focus on...
Knee Inflammation: What It Means And How To Calm It Down
Key Takeaways Knee inflammation is a sign that something in or around the knee is irritated, not a diagnosis by itself. Common causes include overuse, tendon irritation, bursitis, arthritis, cartilage changes, meniscus irritation, and ligament injury. Rest may calm a...
Symptoms Of A Strained Achilles Tendon: What To Watch For
Key Takeaways Symptoms of a strained Achilles tendon often include morning stiffness, tenderness, swelling, calf tightness, pain after activity, and reduced push-off strength. Achilles pain may improve during warm-up but return later, which means the tendon may still...
Shockwave Therapy Equipment: How It Works And What Patients Should Know
Key Takeaways Shockwave therapy equipment delivers controlled acoustic pressure waves to targeted tissue as a noninvasive treatment option. The equipment settings, energy type, treatment area, and provider skill all influence how shockwave therapy is applied....
Soft Tissue Damage To Foot: Signs, Treatment, And Recovery
A foot injury can change your day immediately. You may step wrong off a curb, twist during a workout, land awkwardly during sport, or notice pain after a long walk that felt normal at the time. Suddenly, the foot feels sore, swollen, stiff, bruised, unstable, or hard...
Tissue Repair In The Knee: How Healing Really Happens
Key Takeaways Tissue repair in the knee depends on the tissue involved, including tendons, ligaments, cartilage, meniscus, muscle, fascia, or bone. Healing is not passive. The knee often needs the right mix of protection, movement, strength, and gradual loading. Pain...
Knee Replacement Physical Therapy Exercises
Key Takeaways Knee replacement physical therapy exercises help restore motion, strength, balance, walking mechanics, and confidence. Early exercises often focus on circulation, knee bending, knee straightening, and quadriceps activation. Later exercises should build...
Strained Tendon Treatment For Knee Pain
Key Takeaways Strained tendon treatment for the knee should focus on load control, progressive strengthening, and return-to-activity planning. The patellar tendon and quadriceps tendon are commonly involved in knee tendon pain, especially with running, jumping,...
Top Of The Ankle Sore? Why It Happens And What Helps
A sore feeling at the top of the ankle can be oddly specific. It may show up when you walk uphill. It may pinch when you squat. It may feel tight when you lace your shoes. It may ache after running, hiking, court sports, or a long day on your feet. Sometimes it feels...