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PowerPlay’s cold compression kits have a variety of uses from soothing muscle strain or pulled muscles to reducing swelling. This blog is your resource for discovering how to best use these wraps can best help you recover or prevent injury.
Best Recovery Methods For Athletes
While working out and training are vital to top-performing athletes, recovery should also be prioritized. When training, athletes are usually focused on breaking a personal best, or getting to the…
6 Common Sports Injuries for Athletes
When you constantly push your body to the limit, it may hit a point where it will break. Athletes know that there is always risk of an injury. Whether the…
Ankle Injury Recovery Guide
A sprained ankle is one of the most common athletic-related injuries. If you’re like most athletes, an ankle injury can keep you sidelined for what feels like forever. Download our…
How Emotional Health Affects Recovery After ACL Surgery
Many athletes who have undergone ACL surgery recovery would agree that the mental recovery is sometimes worse than the physical. After all, athletes are used to and somewhat expect physical…
Find Chronic Pain Relief Through Cold Compression
Patients often turn to heat therapy for relief from chronic pain, which is a great option to help with injuries or on-going pain from arthritis or other health-related pain issues….
Athletic Trainers Give Insight Into Profession
In our own way to celebrate National Athletic Training Month – which is designed to spread awareness about the important work of Athletic Trainers – we wanted to ask…
Why CrossFit and Strength Training Athletes Desperately Need Balance, Agility and Recovery
By PowerPlay Guest Blogger Karen Simpson Three key concerns during an athlete’s training include strength, speed and power. However, neglecting CrossFit recovery will keep an athlete from competing at peak…
Most Common Sports Injuries for Fall Sports
If you’ve grown up playing sports or have kids who do, you’ve probably had personal experience with sports injuries. According to the organization Stop Sports Injuries (a joint collaboration of…
Why Ice Packs Aren’t the Only Answer to Injury Recovery
When an athlete gets injured, ice packs are usually the first treatment an athletic trainer will use. Have you ever wondered why? Why Ice Packs Are Used Ice brings cold…
How To Reduce Swelling
When your body swells after an injury, it’s trying to protect and begin repairing the damaged area. Swelling is essentially a collection of fluid in the body part that has been…
How to determine if your insurance will cover cold compression therapy (and what to do if they don’t!)
Insurance companies, and what they cover, are just about as varied as the stars in the sky or the sand on a beach. Every plan is unique to the person…
The Fastest Road To Recovery
Using Cold Compression Wraps For Shoulder Injuries It can be a long and tedious process to regain full health after a shoulder injury. Dislocated shoulder recovery often takes a few…