Stretches for Tenpin Bowling
By Brad | May 11, 2010
In the latest edition of The Stretching & Sports Injury Report you’ll get information on the most common injuries for tenpin bowling, plus key injury prevention strategies and stretching exercises. I hope you enjoy…
Tenpin Bowling Stretches and Flexibility Exercises
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Stretches for Snow Skiing
By Brad | May 11, 2010
In the latest edition of The Stretching & Sports Injury Report you’ll get information on the most common injuries for snow skiing, plus key injury prevention strategies and stretching exercises. I hope you enjoy…
Snow Skiing Stretches and Flexibility Exercises
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Ankle or Foot Pain?
By Brad | May 4, 2010
I’ve got 2 articles for you this week: The first is called Plantar Fasciitis, which is a very painful foot condition that affects the arch of the foot. The article includes both treatment and prevention strategies, plus 2 foot stretches that will help ease foot arch pain and tightness.
The 2nd article this week is one that I dug out of the archive from 2007, but it’s just as relevant and up-to-date for today. It’s called Pronation and Supination and discusses how to choose the right shoes to support your foot type.
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Knee Injuries and Knee Pain
By Brad | April 20, 2010
About 6 months ago I was asked to write another book; which will be a follow up from my Anatomy of Sports Injuries book.
This new book however, will just focus on sports injuries of the knee, and will include information on knee anatomy, plus knee injury prevention, treatment and rehabilitation.
So when I started to put my thoughts on paper for the new book, the first place I looked was our archive of articles on knee injuries, which brings me to our articles for this week.
Below are 2 very common knee injuries that effect athletes from a wide variety of sports: The first is Patellar Tendonitis, or Jumpers Knee. And the second is Illiotibial Band Syndrome, or ITB Syndrome. I hope you enjoy them…
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Shoulder Pain and Shoulder Injuries
By Brad | April 13, 2010
The shoulder; what a wonderful joint! So much range of motion, so much freedom of movement. The downside though, is that with all this movement comes a lack of stability, which brings me to our articles for this week.
If you’ve ever had a shoulder injury, or a shoulder pain that won’t go away, check out the articles below…
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Elbow Tendonitis – Golfers Elbow, Tennis Elbow
By Brad | March 30, 2010
This week we’re looking at a common injury that affects athletes from a variety of different sports: Elbow Tendonitis.
Elbow tendonitis is commonly an overuse injury resulting in inflammation and pain around the elbow joint. Although the condition effects slightly different areas of the elbow, depending on the type of sports or activity that caused it, sports such as golf, tennis and throwing sports like baseball, cricket, javelin, tennis serving and volleyball spiking are commonly associated with elbow tendonitis.
If you play golf, tennis or any sport that requires throwing, click on one of the articles below…
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Top 10 Best Books on Stretching
By Brad | March 9, 2010
I often get asked for my opinion on a particular book, and people are always asking me what books we use here in The Stretching Institute, so I thought the Top 10 Best Books on Stretching and Sports Injury would make for a good article. Check out our top 10 list at the link below…
Top 10 Best Books on Stretching
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Muscle Bruises and Contusions
By Brad | March 3, 2010
I’ve got 2 articles for you this week: The first is called Bruises and Muscle Contusions, which by the way, is the second most common sports injury after strains.
And the 2nd article this week is one that I dug out of the archive from 2008, but it’s just as relevant and up-to-date for today. It’s called Stretching for Injury Rehabilitation and discusses how to choose the right type of stretching for your rehabilitation program. Enjoy!
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Back Pain Treatment and Prevention
By Brad | February 16, 2010
Welcome to this week’s issue of The Stretching & Sports Injury Report.
Last week we had a great response from our article on Sciatica and Sciatic Nerve Pain Treatment, so this week we’re sticking with the back pain topic.
This week, we’re looking at back pain from a more general perspective, including: causes of back pain, signs and symptoms, plus treatment and prevention strategies. I hope you enjoy…
Back Pain Treatment and Prevention
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Sciatica and Sciatic Nerve Pain Treatment
By Brad | February 10, 2010
Firstly, thanks for your patients over the last few weeks. If you didn’t already know, we’ve been updating our web site and it’s been quite a big job.
Anyway, the new web site is finally finished; and we can now get back to what we do best… Publishing Articles!
And the first article for the year is below. I hope you enjoy…
Sciatica and Sciatic Nerve Pain Treatment
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