Avid Sports Medicine Blog
Runners Physical Therapy: More Than Treating Pain
Key Takeaways Runners physical therapy should address more than pain by looking at strength, gait, mobility, training load, and the runner's specific goals. Gait analysis can provide useful information about running mechanics, but it works best when combined with a...
Foot Soft Tissue Injury: Symptoms, Treatment, And Recovery
Key Takeaways A foot soft tissue injury may involve ligaments, tendons, muscles, or fascia, and identifying the specific structure helps guide treatment. Early recovery often involves protection and symptom control, but long-term healing requires progressive movement,...
Avid Athlete Studio: Where Training, Recovery, And Performance Come Together
Key Takeaways Avid Athlete Studio combines a boutique gym environment with access to sports medicine, physical therapy, gait analysis, recovery services, and performance resources.The studio helps bridge the gap between rehabilitation and independent training, making...
PRP Therapy: How It Supports Healing And Sports Injury Recovery
Key Takeaways PRP therapy uses a concentrated portion of a patient's own blood with the goal of supporting tissue repair in selected sports injuries and musculoskeletal conditions.PRP is not an instant cure. Improvement, when it occurs, typically develops over time...
Physical Therapy For Knee Surgery
Key Takeaways Physical therapy for knee surgery helps restore motion, strength, walking, balance, and confidence after the procedure. Rehab should be specific to the type of knee surgery, surgeon instructions, healing timeline, and patient goals. Recovery usually...
Injection Therapies: What They Do And When They May Help
Key Takeaways Injection therapies are not one-size-fits-all. The right option depends on the diagnosis, tissue involved, and treatment goal. Cortisone, PRP, hyaluronic acid, and regenerative options work differently and may be used for different joint, tendon, or soft...
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...