You don’t need to be a professional athlete to benefit from sports massage therapy. Anyone that lives an active lifestyle can benefit from the restorative and rejuvenating properties that a sports massage provides. Sports massage is one of the best non-invasive methods to improve your performance, help you return from injury or recover from a [...]

Knee pain is a common complaint among runners and other athletes. One of the biggest problems with treating that pain is determining its root cause. Knee pain can be caused by joint problems, ligament injuries, muscle pulls and a variety of other ailments. Making it even more difficult to treat knee pain is the fact [...]

If you have started experiencing pain down the front or just behind your shins, especially during or after exercise, you might have shin splints.  The technical term is “medial tibial stress syndrome” and usually results from too much pressure on the shinbone and the nearby tissues, causing pain and inflammation.  Specifically, the tibial anterior muscle can develop little tears [...]

If you run your hand down the outside seam of your pants along your thigh, you will find the location of the iliotibial band, or the IT band.  The IT band is essentially a bunch of fibers attached to the glutes or (butt muscles) and the tensor fascia lata muscle at the top and the tibia [...]

Sleep and performance go hand in hand for many reasons.  It is vital for your body to get the proper amount of sleep so that you can reach your full potential and function to the best of your ability.  For athletes, it’s particularly important because of the amount of exercise that is incorporated into their [...]

  Do you have a sport related injury that does not seem to be healing no matter how much conventional medicines or therapies you use?  Do you have joint pain, and would like to avoid surgery or painful traditional treatment options?  Taking pain medication or getting injections may temporarily make the pain go away, but [...]