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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.
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…
Recovering From ACL Surgery Using Cold Compression Knee Wraps
There are few solutions that provide more immediate results after ACL surgery than a cold compression knee wrap. Cold Compression therapy is a highly-respected, proven approach for reducing swelling after…
How to Relieve Pain from Standing Desks or All-Day Sitting
With the increasing awareness of damage caused by sedentary living, standing desks have become a common “solution” to the problem. However, last year researchers at Cochrane Work came to the…
5 Questions with Gold Medalist Katie Holloway
Q: First of all, congratulations on winning the Gold in Sitting Volleyball! What led you to pursue the sport and how does it feel to bring home a gold medal?…
The Best Guide for Recovering Faster From an Ankle Injury
Charlie had always been an athlete. At 40-years-old, he decided to take on an ultra-trail run. He was in shape for the race, and he had always been a competitive…
Five Ways You Can Increase Athletic Performance
It’s back to school season, which also means its time for school sports to start back up. However, with sports comes the possibility of injury. Whether your athlete is recovering…
Recover Faster: Best Methods For Athletic Recovery
Every athlete wants to do all they can to improve their performance. Proper training regimens are, of course, important in building strength, stamina and agility. But how one recovers from…