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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.
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…
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…
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?…
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…
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,…
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…
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…