Archives for August 2015

Validity of Compression Gear

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Validity of Compression Gear

Compression gear has been a hot ticket item in many sports now. Take a look around central park and see all the runners wearing bright knee high socks, weightlifters wearing compression pants, basketball players wearing compression elbow/shoulder sleeves. Even good ole Brett Favre is advocating compression gear for achy joints and so on. With all the popularity, do they actually [Read more…]

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Should The Olympic Lifts Be Used In Sports Performance Training?

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Should The Olympic Lifts Be Used In Sports Performance Training?

The Olympic weightlifting variations have been extremely popular to utilize in the sports performance training world. Many coaches and trainers look at Olympic weightlifters and see the extremely powerful, coordinated, athletes that they are and [Read more…]

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The Effectiveness of TENS for Muscular Soreness

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The Effectiveness of TENS for Muscular Soreness

When it comes to performance recovery, we use ice, heat, massage, and so on. It’s typical for us to find ways to mask the pain, think NSAIDS and topical analgesics- think icy hot. This is where TENS comes into play, in fact electrical stimulus to treat pain has been utilized for centuries, from the Roman [Read more…]

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