Laird Harrison

Tag: sports injury

  • How to Avoid Arm Injuries in Baseball and Other Throwing Sports (Part I)

    How to Avoid Arm Injuries in Baseball and Other Throwing Sports (Part I)

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    It’s no news to anyone watching the Major League Baseball playoffs that pitchers’ arms tire out pretty fast. But just how much harm pitchers and other throwers may be doing to themselves is just now becoming clear. Not only does throwing too much damage muscles, ligaments and tendons, it can actually prevent a pitcher’s bones…

  • What Wearable Heart Rate Monitors Can Tell You (Part III)

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    Bad news, folks. I have exceeded my maximum heart rate. Surprisingly, I am still able to write this newsletter, but how much longer I can continue, who can say? My wearable devices do not produce that reading. After last week’s adventures with RunKeeper, I thought I’d experiment with some other monitoring devices, hoping to gain…

  • What Exercise Monitoring Device Should You Use? (Part I)

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    Until yesterday, I was feeling so good. I had overcome my knee pain and started running again, loving it like I never did before. I was bounding up the hills near my house, fit and powerful. Did I really need to know that I was only doing a 10-minute mile? That information came to me…

  • Will Testosterone Help Your Sports Performance?

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    The argument for testosterone sounds irresistible: It’s a naturally occurring substance that can boost your strength and energy, possibly fire up your libido and might even lengthen your life. Drug companies have churned out advertising around these claims in recent years, sparking a 65 percent boost in sales in testosterone-boosting drugs from 2009 to 2011.…

  • Update: Soccer Leaders Institute Concussion Rule

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    UPDATE: Referees may stop soccer matches for up to three minutes while the team doctor decides if a player can stay in the game in European competitions, wire services are reported on Thursday. Gianni Infantino, the secretary general of the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA), said the policy was approved by the organization’s executive committee…

  • Life Lessons from an Orthopedic Surgeon

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    One day in Snowbird, Utah, a snowboarder hurled out of control into one of the world’s most prominent sports medicine doctors. Bert Mandelbaum,  a Santa Monica, California orthopedic surgeon, has treated famous athletes, such as David Beckham. And he has helped create some of the most successful injury prevention programs, including FIFA11+, the program promoted…

  • How to Play Tennis Without Injury (We Think)

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    So you want to play tennis and not get injured doing it. Sounds simple enough, but research shows that for every thousand hours of the sport, up to 3 injuries occur. You’ll get to a thousand hours in less than four years if you play a few sets each week. Researchers are beginning to figure…

  • How Tennis Players Get Hurt

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    Heat. Fatigue. A strained thigh. Eugenie Bouchard had plenty of reasons to explain her defeat in the fourth-round of the U.S. Open tennis tournament yesterday. And anyone who plays tennis regularly can sympathize. Even though you don’t have the opportunity to crash into another player the way you do in a team sports, you can…

  • New Study Measures the Power of Health Advisors

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    Ever wonder how your health might change if you worked with a personal trainer or some other sort of health coach? Possibly quite a bit, according to a new U.S. government study published today. On average, it found that people who are overweight and have at least one other risk factor for heart disease could…

  • How My New IDEAFit Sisters Can Keep You in the Pink

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    So there I was at 7:15 in the morning last Thursday, the only man surrounded by 140 women doing yoga, most of them young enough to be my daughters. And I was thinking, “Did I take a wrong turn?” The answer I decided by the end of my four days at IDEA World Fitness Convention,…