What Changed About Concussion Since You Last Heard
Dark room, no screens, rest until every symptom is gone. That was the advice most of us were given, and the current international consensus says it is not beneficial.
When to Go to the ER After a Concussion
Most concussions do not need an emergency department. A small number of head injuries do, and the signs are specific enough to be worth knowing before you need them. The red flags, why getting worse over hours matters, and when neck pain is a spine question.
Getting Weak Isn’t Aging. It’s Disuse.
Almost everything we know about losing muscle with age comes from studying people who stopped moving. When researchers scanned athletes aged 40 to 81 who never stopped, muscle mass held, and the strength drop came late and then levelled off.
The Fear Doesn’t Show Up on the Tests
Fear of reinjury is the most common reason athletes never return after an ACL reconstruction. Among those who do return, it barely registered in their physical testing at all — and the reason why is the interesting part.
Why a Head Injury Shows Up in Your Ankle
Athletes with a concussion history reported more ankle sprains, knee injuries and muscle strains. The strongest associations were with the concussions nobody diagnosed.
The First 48 Hours After a Head Knock
What to do on the sideline, that night, and the next morning — and the one instruction that has changed since most of us learned it.
The Concussion Nobody Diagnosed
You got hit, felt off for a while, and never told anyone. The physical therapy guideline says time since injury should not decide whether that is worth looking at.
There Is a Ceiling, and Elite Athletes Are Above It
1,114 elite athletes had more back pain than physically active non-athletes, not less. Read alongside the running evidence, it points at a dose-response curve with a bottom you can actually aim for.
Ten Things About Back Pain That Should Change How You Train
Backs do not wear out. Bending is not dangerous. A weak core is not why your back hurts. Ten evidence-backed facts, written for people who intend to keep lifting.
Runners Get Less Back Pain, Not More
The received wisdom is that pounding the pavement wrecks your back. A systematic review of nineteen studies found back pain is less common in runners than in the general population, not more.
The Ankle Sprain Return-to-Play Framework Nobody Told You About
More than half of ankle sprains never get looked at by anyone. When 155 experts across 19 countries finally agreed what “ready” should mean, five things made the list — and pain was only the first.
One Exercise Cut Groin Problems by 41%
Thirty-five football teams were randomised to add a single adductor exercise. During the season it took under five minutes a week, and it cut the risk of groin problems by 41%.
Five Flavors of Groin Pain. Yours Is One of Them.
Groin pain often takes months, sometimes years, to get a name. An international group of experts agreed on five categories, and on why the scan you were sent for probably did not settle anything.
Cleared to Play Isn’t the Same as Ready to Compete
Clearance answers a safety question. It doesn’t answer the performance one — and there’s often nobody standing at that second gate.
What People Believe About Shoulder Pain, and What the Evidence Says
810 people with shoulder pain were asked what they understood about their condition. Education and advice was named by around 1 in 100.
Tendon Pain After Menopause: What the Evidence Actually Shows
Before menopause, women develop fewer lower-limb tendon problems than men. After, the risk becomes equal. What changed, and what to do about it.
Why Avoiding the Painful Movement Stops Working
Avoiding a movement that hurts is sensible, not weak. The problem is what it costs when the strategy runs for months instead of days.
What Actually Gets You Better Isn’t How Many Hours You Spend in a Clinic
Fourteen trials compared one-on-one physical therapy against group and semi-supervised programmes. Neither came out ahead. Here’s what that does and doesn’t mean.