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Blood Flow Restriction (BFR): How & Why It Helps You
By Joluis De Los Santos: Blood flow restriction has become an increasingly popular tool for rehabilitation due to its application of increasing muscle activation and strength while...
Active Recovery Work is Crucial (especially for young athletes)
By Vince Guagliano, DC: All athletes subject their bodies to tremendous physical stress. Day after day, this type of physical impact on the human body takes its toll, even on...
PT beats steroid injections for knee OA . . . yet only 10% of patients are referred to PT!
By The Aim Sports Medicine Team: Adapted from Osteoarthritic and Cartilage, April, 2019. Author Dr. Daniel Rhon, DPT, DSc: Toronto – Eight physical therapy session spread ov...
Osteoarthritis and Physical Therapy
By The Aim Sports Medicine Team: Osteoarthritis (OA) is one of the most common joint disorders, especially in adults over the age of 60. Two of the most commonly affected join...
Telehealth @Aim: ALL the Details
By The Aim Sports Medicine Team: What is Telehealth? (aka "virtual visits") The short answer is that it stands for “telecommunications health”. The better answer is that ...
What is CBD?
By Dr. Nathan Luczynski: It seems like every time you turn around these days, you bump into CBD something, from your doctor's office to the gym, even at your local grocery store or...
Are you a wine glass or a tin can?
By Aim Sports Medicine: Ever wonder why one person gets hurt so easily, and the next person doesn’t? Would you know what it meant if I asked you, “Are you a wine gl...
DOMS (no, we don’t mean the champagne!)
By Robert Willhite, Soft Tissue Chiropractor: The weather is starting to warm up, the clouds are starting to slowly become a distant memory, and all signs point to the inevitable...
Why Do Injuries Happen in CrossFit?
By Dr. Nathan Luczynski: While there are many underlying factors that can lead to injury in all athletes, such sleep, nutrition, hydration, stress, and prior injury, there are four...
Tell Me About CrossFit . . .
By Dr. Nathan Luczynski: Most of the people in our community have heard of this style of exercise. But what is it, exactly? Technically speaking, it is constantly varied functional...
Importance of Recovery Work
By Aim Sports Medicine: What’s the first thing you think of when you hear the word “recovery”? You may picture someone with a serious illness or a debilitating injury, ...
“Flipping the Pyramid” on Healthcare Norms
By Amy Mourad, PT: In the typical medical model that we have all become accustomed to, there are a series of events that follow an injury: rest, see a physician if symptoms persist...
