The latest news and advice from our team of professional physical therapists
With the New York City Marathon approaching, our Physical Therapist’s in New York are working hard to keep these head strong athletes healthy for peak performance on Sunday. Physical Therapist, Maggie Fogel, currently works with several marathoners who have been coming to her while in training. “We encourage the athletes to run from within themselves,
We are pleased to announce that 40 of our team members have been certified in Dynamic Taping! Dynamic Tape is a specially designed, highly elastic tape and is completely different from rigid sports tapes and kinesiology tapes. Its unique properties and four way stretch allow for a truly biomechanical approach to taping, something that integrates
SportsCare Institute, Inc. is proud to announce the grand opening event of the SportsCare Performance Institute on May 18th at 70 Route 10 West in Whippany, NJ from 12pm-4pm. As a leading provider of physical therapy and sports medicine, SportsCare has now expanded their brand into the sports performance training field. The SportsCare Performance Institute
Cardiovascular training. Strengthening. Alter G. These are just some of the many modes of therapy Kevin Ware will be facing over the next year. On March 31, 2013, after almost 30 years since Joe Theismann’s horrific compound leg gracture injury, Kevin Ware, a 20-year-old basketball player for the Louisville Cardinals sustained a similar injury. After
Following an achilles tendon rupture which is surgically repaired, most patients will return to their prior level of function within six months. This can vary based on the demand of the patient’s activities, as well as the individual’s prior level of function, strength, age, and intrinsic ability to heal. Kobe Bryant’s athleticism and strength provide
SportsCare is sponsoring the American Physical Therapy Association and New Jersey Student Assembly Lymphoma and Leukemia Bar Crawl this Saturday in Hoboken. Come out and support a great cause and meet potential future SportsCare employees! Email Robyn with any questions [email protected]
We are pleased to announce the opening of our latest facility in New Jersey. Conveniently located in West New York, New Jersey the facility offers Physical Therapy, Occupational Therapy & Pediatric Therapy. West New York is home to our KidsCare program providing school-based Occupational Therapy and Physical Therapy in Hudson County schools of New Jersey
SportsCare Institute’s Sports Medicine Team of Physical Therapists and Athletic Trainers offered the highest quality of treatment and injury prevention services at the NY Giants Snow Bowl at MetLife Stadium. This official 6-on-6 flag football tournament with light-blocking is played over three days and our mobile treatment van, “SportsCare 1” was on site and ready
SportsCare Joins the Marist High School Team SportsCare has teamed up with the Royal Knights to provide athletic training services to the student athletes of Marist High School in Bayonne, NJ. Marist High School currently has no medical or support staff for their student athletes’ extra-curricular activities, and SportsCare hopes to provide them wtih the
Its 5am, you wake up and pull yourself out of bed and push yourself to get dressed and ready for your morning run. Or after a long day at the office you come home and force yourself to get dressed for the gym. What is one thing that most people reach for without a second
SMR (self myofascial release) is an important part of NASM’s 4 step rationale to corrective exercise. As part of the inhibitory phase, SMR is meant to relax overactive muscles fibers that may be present within the muscle. The rationale behind it is that by using the clients body weight over a semi hard object, the
Let’s be honest, no one likes to talk about hydration. Yet every athlete has at some point in their life experienced some level dehydration. It seems there are arguments on every aspect of hydration, from how much is too much to the classic water versus sports drink discussion. Yet it always seems that research in
