Last Friday and Saturday the 20th and 21st of August, I attended a course entitled: Latest research in treatment and evaluation of the shoulder. I attended this course for 2 reasons. 1. Being a baseball player (and tennis when I was younger) as well as physio, I have an active interest in the shoulder, particularly in regards to over head athlete's. 2. The course was run by Kevin Wilk. Kevin is a physio renowned across the world for his work with the shoulder. He is associate clinical director of Champion Sports Medicine in Alabama, and works closley with Dr James Andrews of the American Sports Medicine Institute. These men are THE go to people for shoulder injuries ...

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Many studies have confirmed the importance of the meniscus to the function of the knee, especially during sport. The literature is littered with studies citing the important biomechanical roles that the menisci play in shock absorption, force transmission, and load distribution across the knee in addition to contributing to stability, joint congruence, nutrition of the articular cartilage, joint lubrication, and proprioception. Loss of meniscal tissue due to injury leads to decreased clinical function and reduced activity levels. Help however, is at hand. Research from the United States has been trialling a collagen meniscal implant. The implant was created using tissue engineering techniques and derived from U.S origin bovine Achilles tendons. It has been tested extensively in ...

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Runners, It’s HIP to strengthen! It has been the focus of running training and performance to concentrate on increasing mileage as the main avenue for athletic development.  However, recent insight has illuminated some very fascinating new develops that challenge this training dogma.  With injury rates hovering between 20-80 percent, with previous injury and mileage being correlated to injury development, as illustrated by Wen, we are challenged to re-examine our intervention and prevention strategies as well as our training methods. Why do so many women runners develop knee pain? We see this very frequently in clinical practice.  Women often present with anterior knee pain, or Patellofemoral pain and often men present with Iliotibial pain (ITB) syndrome at the knee.  ...

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We have had a major breakthrough with Alisha Tatham. She came into today’s training feeling recovered after a day-off on Tuesday. Today’s session began by testing her vertical jump and her single leg vertical after a thorough warm-up. Her warm-up can be seen below. Her scores were a modest 17.0, 13.8 and 6.1 for her counter movement jump, left and right legs (ACL repaired) knees respectively. These results are way off her best, when she jumped 30 inches October 2008. [/youtube]We have had a major breakthrough with Alisha Tatham. She came into today’s training feeling recovered after a day-off on Tuesday. Today’s session began by testing her vertical jump and her single leg vertical after ...

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After an ACL rupture with fracture, Alisha is coming back. She had her surgery on September 22 and is training hard to return, better than ever. She is about to launch her blog, sharing her thoughts, struggles, and her progress as she prepares to come back ready and better than before for the upcoming FIBA World Championships in September. We'll share the link and I would encourage you to follow (subscribing is even better) the blog! Related posts:Congratulations to Canadians selected to the 2010 FIS Alpine World Junior Ski Championships FITS is proud of our Ontario athletes who are headed... Our team Dr. Thomas Lam | BIO President, Director of Athletic Development,... Related posts brought to you by Yet ...

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If you are a coach, parent, or athlete you need to read this! Have you heard of Jumper's knee? This is the common name given to a group of tendopathies that effect the patellar tendon or ligament. I'm sure you know or seen or know someone with a tendopathy. They are very common in jumping and cutting sports that are played on hard floors such as basketball, volleyball. When they become problematic, they can take months to over a year to recover. This is very problematic because it takes time away from a developing athlete, and this damage is sometimes unrepairable, leading to years of knee pain and athletic potential that is never realized. We ...

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Two more articles have appeared reviewing the topic of Femoroacetabular impingement in hockey players, the surgical management and return to play guidelines. These abstracts are available via pubmed. Philippon M, Schenker M, Briggs K, Kuppersmith D. Femoroacetabular impingement in 45 professional athletes: associated pathologies and return to sport following arthroscopic decompression.Knee Surg Sports Traumatol Arthrosc. 2007 Jul;15(7):908-14. Epub 2007 May 4. Bizzini M, Notzli HP, Maffiuletti NA. Femoroacetabular Impingement in Professional Ice Hockey Players: A Case Series of5 Athletes After Open Surgical Decompression of the Hip.Am J Sports Med. 2007 Jul 3; [Epub ahead of print] Related posts:Learn how to develop the complete basketball player               YOU DON’T WANT... Related posts brought to you by Yet ...

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Two recent publications involving descriptive hockey injury epidemiology of the National Collegiate Athletic Injury Surveillance System have just been released (Men's Agel et al., Women's Agel et al.). These studies, followed NCAA Men's hockey for 16 years and Women's Hockey for 4 years, reveal some very interesting findings. In Woman's Hockey: Game injury rates were 5x higher than in practices Pre-season Injury rates were nearly double compared to in-season rates. Concussions were the Most Common Injury in both Games and Practices Greater than 50% of game injuries were related to player contact (which is not allowed) In Men's Hockey: Game injury rates were 8x higher than in practices. Pre-season Injury rates were nearly double compared to in-season rates Most common injury, both game/practice were to ...

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