Low back pain can be challenging to treat. There is obviously a lot of factors that go into treating back pain, and those factors are no different with hockey players. Some lower powered studies have shown between 90%-95% of hockey players will suffer from at least one bout of low back pain during their career […]
From a performance standpoint, hockey has always been a few steps behind baseball. This applies with everything from performance tracking technology to analytics. Although this might not seem ideal from an injury prevention standpoint, some tendencies in player development leading to injury may be more common in baseball than in hockey. For now. If hockey […]
Femoroacetabular impingement has recently become an epidemic in youth sports. We are starting to see more and more young athletes suffering from groin/hip pain caused by these abnormal bony changes. At this point, this condition is still poorly understood in terms of cause and prevention. But the only way to find the root cause of […]
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. […]
There has been some debate recently in the hockey science world on whether or not players should lace their skates through the top eyelet. I’ve actually experimented with both throughout my career and I’ve read some good and interesting opinions on the topic. Based on some of the research I’ve read, I’ve created my own […]
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 […]
Femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) is a hot topic right now for sport performance and rehab. In this series of articles, we will be discussing FAI in great detail to give you a better understanding of what it is, where it comes from and why we need to be concerned about it. In this first article, we […]
