Got knee pain? The Wave Tool’s role in Injury Recovery
Running can place tremendous loads on the muscles and joints of our knees, leading to overuse injury. The Wave tool can an integral component of injury rehabilitation and athletic recovery. Here’s how to use your Wave Tool to treat your knees and quadricep muscles.
The Athlete’s Plate: Balancing Performance Nutrition with Everyday Eating
As an athlete, your body has different needs than people who don’t do much exercise. Learn how to incorporate performance nutrition in your daily diet.
How hard and how often to use the Wave Tool?
It seems like a simple question; "How hard and how often should I use my Wave Tool?" Each individual and every injury are very different and unique and, therefore, it is actually quite hard to give a one size fits all program. Below are some tips to understand these phases and how to best use muscle scraping to promote healing.
Cupping’s many benefits
Cupping Therapy creates a suction on the underlying tissue, creating a decompressive pull (negative pressure) on the skin, fascia, and muscle. Cupping can help increase blood flow to the area, release adhesions and scar tissue, as well as improve tissue mobility.
As a Physical Therapist, I have found cupping to be extremely useful on post surgical adhesions (from the femur to the breast tissue), back pain, shoulder tension, and all types of tendinitis, and here is the science behind some of the benefits.
