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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.
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…
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…
Product Review by Ben Towne, MA, ATC
We were flattered to have recently been reviewed by Certified Athletic Trainer Benjamin Towne on his blog, which you can find here. Below is his product review: By Benjamin Towne,…
PowerPlay™ Partners with the National Booster Club Training Council
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: PowerPlay™, manufacturer and distributor of the most-cost-effective, portable cold and compression sports therapy system, is proud to announce its partnership with the National Booster Club Training Council,…
The Evolution of Cold and Compression Therapy
By PowerPlay Guest Blogger Casey Paulk, ATC I am an Athletic Trainer, and have been practicing for almost nine years. During my career I have been lucky enough to work…
Greatest Sports Moments
By PowerPlay Athlete Jessica Meyers, Photo by Rev3 Knoxville I am admittedly a sports fanatic. True, I tend to lean towards the sports geared towards my world—swim, bike, and run. …
Recognizing A Value
By Pro Triathlete Jessica Meyers I was meeting with an athlete I coach and we were discussing power meters and different equipment. He was trying to find the most…
Why it Didn’t Bother Me to Hear My Anterior Cruciate Ligament Was Torn But Scared to Death to Find Out I Had Torn My ACL
By PowerPlay Blogger Natalie Cagle In 1998 I was attending the University of Montana in Missoula. Fabulous school. Especially if you enjoyed mountain sports like skiing. I did. Not more…
How Much Weight Should You (Or Shouldn’t You) Gain in the Off-Season?
By PowerPlay Pro Triathlete, Jessica Meyers It’s that time of year that we love and hate, the off season. While mentally it’s a nice break from the daily grind, our…
When you know what not to do but you do it anyway…
By PowerPlay Athlete, Jessica Meyers Most cyclists have heard the expression that there are two types of riders; the ones who have crashed and the ones who are waiting to…
To Swim or Not to Swim?
By PowerPlay Athlete, Jessica Meyers That is the question. How many times do we feel overwhelmed, tired, unmotivated? The last thing we want to do is pull on a bathing…