Expert Insights on Performance & Recovery
MCL Sprain Recovery Guide by Grade (and How to Get Back Faster)
Ski season is coming, and along with it one of the most common knee injuries we see, MCL sprains.
Catch an edge, or maybe take a hit to the outside of your knee on the field, and the ligament on the inside of your knee can get stretched past its limit.
Here’s the good news, most MCL sprains heal really well without surgery. A proper rehab gets you back faster, and it leaves your knee stronger and more resilient than before you got hurt. These are the five keys we focus on in our performance physical therapy.
How to Choose a Sports Physical Therapist in Denver
Search for a sports physical therapist in Denver and you will find a dozen clinics describing themselves as a sports physical therapy clinic for athletes.
Here is the version we would actually want if we were the ones choosing.
Seven questions that separate clinics in ways that matter, how to ask them, and an honest account of where we land on each, including the cases where we may not be your answer.
Proximal Hamstring Tendinopathy: Causes, Symptoms, and How to Rehab It
As fall race season wraps up and a lot of you start planning next year’s training blocks, it’s a good time to talk about an injury that quietly builds over months of mileage: proximal hamstring tendinopathy.
If you’ve been “running through” a deep glute ache, keep reading. There’s a better path than pushing through or shutting everything down.
Physical Therapy for Outdoor Athletes in Colorado
There is a particular kind of patient who is common here and rare almost everywhere else.
They ski forty days a season, ride bikes all summer, climb two nights a week, signed up for a 50K in June, and moved to Colorado specifically so they could do all of it. When something hurts, the question is never "how do I get comfortable again." It is "how do I not lose the season."
Generic rehab does not answer that question, because generic rehab is built around restoring normal daily function. For an outdoor athlete in Colorado, normal daily function is a floor, not a goal.
Here is how we think about this population.
Colorado Ski Prep Guide: How to Strengthen Your Legs for Skiing and Snowboarding
Ski and snowboard season is beckoning upon us. Last year's snowfall was disappointing but how can you not enter this season with a new found optimism and enthusiasm. Hopes and dreams for 12+ inches of powder, freshies in the afternoon, and a banging apres party after a hard day on the slopes. This is the year you get stuck behind Vail pass, no way of getting home, get hit with a fresh snowstorm and you're stuck riding the best powder you’ve seen in 10 years.
You need to be ready for all of it and now is the time to start prepping for it.
Inside the OR: What Two ACL Reconstructions Taught Us
We spend months with ACL patients after surgery. We rarely get to see the 90 minutes that set the rehab in motion.
This past week we had the opportunity to scrub in and participate in surgery with Dr. Mitchel Robinson, a local orthopedic surgeon from Panorama Orthopedics in Golden, and his team. During our day in the OR, we were able to observe 2 different ACL-reconstructions and discuss not only the surgery itself but the considerations that went into them.