The practice of martial arts as a contact sport relies on the explosive movement of muscles and joints. Because of the rapid nature of its motions and the intense training regiment, it is important for practitioners to prepare and protect their bodies from injury. When learning kung fu, kickboxing, jujitsu, karate, taekwondo, and judo, it is important to follow prescribed steps to avoid injury.
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Mixed Martial Arts or MMA combines martial arts influences from disciplines practiced all over the world. Participants in MMA bouts fight with a limited set of rules to earn points awarded by judges. Fights can also end by force if a fighter causes his or her opponent to lose consciousness, surrender the fight, or sustain too much injury.
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Your ACL and MCL are ligaments located in your knee that connect your thigh bone (femur) to your shinbone (tibia). These ligaments keep your tibia in place and protect certain parts from tearing such as the menisci. Menisci work as a cushion for your joints to help keep them protected.
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Improving your diet with these vitamins decreases what is known as vitamin deficiency anemia. What is interesting is that vitamins don’t directly produce energy. Instead, the lack of these items in your diet can lead to fatigue. Simply keeping a healthy intake of vitamins and minerals will help your energy improve…
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If you are suffering from a mild discomfort, poor posture may make it worse. If you have a strained back, bad posture could further weaken and even break the muscle. The correct posture places pressure in the areas of the body designed to bear the load. By sitting the wrong way, you are placing weight on areas of your body that should not receive pressure. Incorrect sitting creates more maladies, putting other body parts at risk for injury.
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A muscle pull, also known as a muscle strain, is a stretching, tearing, or rupturing of muscle fibers. The tear occurs either in the middle of the muscle belly or in the tendon that connects the muscle to bone…
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The National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) currently states that the benefit of stretching depends on the specific sport or activity being performed. For sports requiring increased range of motion, such as gymnastics or weightlifting, Static Stretching (touching your toes, holding the pose for a few seconds, etc.) has been shown by researchers to increase performance…
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We mistreat our spines. We slouch, we hunch, and we twist and turn in uncomfortable ways just to get comfortable in the short term. These short term alleviations create long-term problems for a body part that needs the best care it can get. Without setting long-term solutions, you will have issues the rest of your life…
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One of the most common causes of lower back pain we see in the clinic is actually degenerative disc disease. This is when the disc between the vertebrae end up degenerating and cause mechanical lower back pain. Therefore, you can have radicular pain, a shooting pain, down the back of the leg, weakness, dumbness, and…
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Natasha Hastings is a 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist with the Women’s 4×400 meter relay, as well as the Women’s 400-meter 2013 National Champion for the USA. She has been seeing Dr. Dan now for a little over a year. He’s helped in keeping her healthy. Natasha likes to be preemptive and come in before things…
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