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Each day we meet with athletes, clients, and patients who present with an injury or condition involving an injury to ...
Hamstring injuries are one of the most common injuries in both individual and team sports. In sports such as soccer ...
Exercise remains one of the most underutilized treatments for mental health disorders.  The treatment effects of aerobic exercise have been ...
Exercise remains one of the most powerful interventions to improve your mental, emotional, and physical health. Specifically, aerobic exercise, when ...
Patient’s with knee arthritis often experience pain with weight bearing activities including, standing, walking, stair climbing, and hiking. In our ...
Knee tendinopathy, either in the quadriceps or patellar tendon, is a common source of knee pain among jumping athletes, but ...
70% of Americans will experience neck pain symptoms within their lifetimes. The vast majority of these symptoms are secondary to ...
ACL injuries are one of the most common sports medicine injuries encountered in a Physical Therapy practice. These injuries can ...
Inherent risks, such as infection and blood clots, are associated with orthopedic surgeries and should be considered in decision making ...
Golf remains one a popular American pastime with around 25 million participants each year. Many of these golfers strive for ...
Patellofemoral pain (PFP) is characterized by diffuse pain behind or around the patella or knee cap. It occurs when the ...
The squat, and its multiple variations, remains one the best overall exercises for strength and power development due to its’ ...
Foam rolling is an effective home exercise to improve muscular pain, flexibility, and performance. Our previous blog posts detailed the ...
Patellar tendinopathy (tendonitis) is a common sports medicine overuse injury most commonly found in jumping (volleyball, basketball) athletes.  This injury ...
Groin strains are the second most common muscle strain, behind the hamstring, among soccer players.  The dynamic movements required by ...
Neck pain is an area consistently under treated by clinicians.  There are countless passive temporary remedies for neck pain including ...
Patellar Tendon pain, also known as jumper's knee, is a painful condition most commonly seen in athlete's engaged in jumping ...
The glut muscle group, including the gluteus maximus and medius, are commonly weak among patients with lower quarter diagnoses including ...
Photo Credit: Jospt.org Hamstring injuries are a common sports medicine injury treated in our Boulder Physical Therapy practice.  These injuries ...
Non contact ACL injuries remain one of the most common traumatic injuries encountered in sports medicine.  The most common mechanism ...
In our previous blog posts we have discussed the variety of interventions available to reduce the high injury rates seen ...
One of the greatest misconceptions in the treatment of musculoskeletal injuries is using interventions to create symmetry in the body ...
In a previous blog we wrote about why you should not spend your valuable exercise time rolling your iliiotibial (IT) ...
In today's healthcare environment, providers are asked to do more with less resources and time.  One area frequently cut by ...