When we think about some of the worst injuries we have seen in sports, many of them fall under compound fractures! These injuries that make you look away from the screen can happen to any athlete really, but often are seen most in basketball players, MMA fighters, and football players. The sport you play may determine how you obtain this the injury, but the mechanisms for injury are the same
Kristaps Porzingis, the former Knicks 7 foot 3 inch Unicorn was injured on February 6th of last year. Kristaps made an amazing play, dunking on his appointment Giannis Antetokounmpo also known as the Greek Freak! When he landed from this incredible play, Giannis’s body fell into Kristaps and caused a him to hyperextended his knee.
Toronto Raptors forward Kawhi Leonard is garnering MVP votes after not playing almost all of last year with a quad tendon strain. He now has a new home, is playing amazing basketball, and his team is off to the best start in the franchise history. There is still one question that many are asking. How did a quad strain keep an elite athlete off the court for almost an entire year?! We will take a deeper look into this injury and how it affected his former team, the San Antonio Spurs, last year.
With Tony Parker leaving the NBA Spurs to head to the Charlotte Hornets, we figured we would dive into his injury history. If you haven’t heard, Parker recently compared his quadricep tendon rupture to Kawhi’s quadricep tendinopathy, and how Parker’s injury was significantly worse. Our specialists in Brooklyn and NYC jumped in with quadricep tendon and knee injury facts for you.
If you or any of your friends are runners, chances are that you’ve found yourself talking about your injuries at some point.
You have had low back pain for a few months now and tried all kinds of stretches twisting you in 10 different directions.
We are going to take a look at a few upper extremity (UE) accessory exercises that should be used by all CrossFit athletes, and overhead athletes in general.
Here at FitClub, we see a lot of people who are doing their best to work out and get healthy. They run, do CrossFit, take classes, or try to do their own thing at the gym.
As the weather warms up, more New Yorkers are leaving the gym and hitting the pavement.
An age-old question – what is the best position for sleeping?
According to the National Sleep Foundation, the best sleeping position is on your back because it allows your spine to rest in a neutral position.