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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.
What You Should Know About Dislocated Shoulder Rehab
The shoulder is the body’s most mobile joint, therefore is more predisposed to dislocation –when the head of the upper arm bone pops from the shoulder socket. A dislocated shoulder,…
7 Things That Could Be Causing Your Back Pain – And How To Conquer It
Do you feel like you’re waging a never-ending battle with back pain? You’re not alone. It is estimated that 80% of the population regularly suffers from back pain of some…
6 Signs You Might Have Restless Leg Syndrome – And What To Do About It!
Restless Leg Syndrome (also referred to as RLS and Willis-Ekbom disease) is a fairly common and uncomfortable disorder that causes an urge to move or massage the legs (or sometimes…
Overcoming an Elbow injury: How I Proved My Injury Couldn’t Keep Me Down
By Dr. Nicole Dorholt, DPT You’ve spent months training for a specific race (and beyond) and what happens the week before you race? Injury. I was on my last big…
PowerPlay Gears Up For NATA
As a member of the National Athletic Trainers Association since our official release at the 2012 NATA Expo, PowerPlay looks forward to attending this captivating and authoritative show each year….
Recovering From ACL Surgery
An ACL tear, (or anterior cruciate ligament tear) is a fairly common yet devastating injury for athletes. Tears can happen for a number of reasons – changing direction rapidly,…
Conditioning the Dynamic Pitcher
By Kyle Boddy, Owner, Driveline Baseball At Driveline Baseball, we see a lot of pitchers who are in the late stages of rehabilitation from surgery or serious injury. Our facility…
PTs Make a PowerPlay for Patient Recovery
According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission’s National Electronic Injury Surveillance System (NEISS), in 2012, more than 1.9 million people experienced a sports-related injury that was treated in an…
Show Us How You Use PowerPlay!
This November we are running our social media photo contest! We’re asking our users to post their photos using PowerPlay to Twitter, Instagram or Facebook, tag us and use #FixWhatHurts….
5 Questions with Dr. Nicole Dorholt, DPT
Q: What was your path to becoming a Physical Therapist, and why did you choose this career? A: It’s funny how I ended up here. I was living in Japan…
5 Questions with Leander Walker, ATC
Q: What was your path to becoming an Athletic Trainer, and why did you choose this career? A: I was a former three-sport athlete and came from a family…
5 Questions With Dan Newman, ATC
Q: What was your path to becoming an Athletic Trainer, and why did you choose this career? A: My path to athletic training was not typical in the sense that…