22 Jun

Adolescent Lower Back Pain: Understanding Bone Stress Injuries

Why Is Lower Back Pain So Common in Young Athletes? Lower back pain is a common complaint in adolescent athletes. While mild muscle soreness is expected during training, persistent pain may be a sign of something more serious, lumbar bone stress injury (LBSI). These overuse injuries are particularly common in sports that involve frequent bending, […]

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26 Sep

Training Load Management

What is Training Load?   “Training load” is a broad term describing total volume, intensity and type of physical activity an athlete undertakes during both training and competition.  External load: the physical work performed by an athlete. For example, distance run, amount of jumps performed, balls thrown. It van also be the duration, intensity or […]

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26 Aug

Sleep – Is it a Pain in the Neck?

Often when we think of pain we think of injury, as if the one is impossible without the other. It is easy for us to attempt to pinpoint a certain situation or event that caused us to be in pain such as lifting an object incorrectly or rolling an ankle playing basketball, however often pain […]

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