I’ve had an influx of youth athletes with anterior knee pain recently so I’ve been reading and searching for some answers. The wheels in my brain have been spinning at 7000rpm so I decided to just jot down some of these thoughts to make more sense of them and decided to share them with you. […]
Ankle sprains are a very common injury in both youth and elite sports. One may think that hockey players may be protected from this type of injury because they wear a solid boot covering their foot and ankle a.k.a a skate, but this may make them more prone to a different type of ankle sprain: […]
In part 1 of this series (click her for part 1), we discuss the prevalence of FAI in hockey players and why it may be a cause for concern. In part 2, we are going to present some information on the different factors contributing to FAI and how some of these factors put hockey players […]
Being a relatively new therapist, I have found myself guilty of prescribing glute exercises that I saw on social media or because someone told me it was a “glute burner”. That sometimes didn’t settle well with me because as much as I was told it was a “glute exercise”, was it really? This article helped […]
This is an article I wrote for John Snyder’s website. If you haven’t already, check out John’s website here for all things hockey rehab, hip rehab, and sport physiotherapy. One common complaint I hear from athletes in general, but in particular hockey players, is that they have tight hips. Here are 3 reasons why hockey players […]
Discharging patients is always hard for me. It’s almost like when your high school hunny moves away to college after high school. You have so many memories of the good times and the bad, and there is potential to create so many more. But they just up and leave, moving on to bigger and better things without you […]
