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Category: Athletes
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SMP Holdings and Ivy Rehab Physical Therapy Join Forces to Provide Rehab and Sports Medicine Services
Sports Made Personal (SMP) and Ivy Rehab Physical Therapy (Ivy) are excited to announce a new sports medicine partnership in the near north Chicago suburbs where Ivy will provide the totality of Physical Therapy and Athletic Training services to the athletes who participate in youth lacrosse and soccer for SMP, including FC United SC, FCU…
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Keep On Rolling: Repetitive Ankle Sprains in Athletes & How Physical Therapy Can Help
Ankle sprains can be painful and debilitating, taking you out of the game or off the job for a few days or a few weeks. If you sprained your ankle as a child, an athlete, or even doing an everyday activity, you’re more prone to roll the same ankle again and again. Repetitive ankle sprains…
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Ivy Rehab Therapist Published in International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy
One of Ivy Rehab’s clinicians, Joshua Smith, PT, DPT, assisted with data collection for a study titled ‘Intra- and Inter-Rater Reliability of the Selective Functional Movement Assessment (SFMA) in Healthy Participants’ that was published in the February ’19 issue of The International Journal of Sports Physical Therapy. The lead author of the study was Justin…
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Injuries In Young Athletes – What Parents Can Watch For
Spring is so close! As we near the end of winter, spring sports are already gearing up and ready to start again. The start of spring tends to be a busy time of year for most families with kids that play sports. More physical activity, more training, more equipment, and more parent taxis taking kids…
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Protecting the Protectors – PT for Tactical Athletes
There are a lot of physical fitness requirements needed in law enforcement, the military, and other emergency rescue professions. Sometimes called the “tactical athlete,” these individuals routinely perform physically demanding and athletic tasks on the job. Power, strength, aerobic conditioning, agility, balance, and mental and physical stamina are necessary to serve, protect and save people’s…
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Check out the Running Analysis Program at Ivy Rehab West Harrison
The running analysis program offered at Ivy Rehab Physical Therapy’s West Harrison clinic is designed to cater to anyone who wants to improve their running performance. This doesn’t just apply to athletes and lifelong runners looking to improve their personal records or run longer distances. Patients who suffer from lower extremity injuries such as knee, leg, hip, ankle…
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Ivy Rehab Sponsors Connecticut Cycling Advancement Program
Ivy Rehab Network would like to congratulate the junior cyclists from the Connecticut Cycling Advancement Program (CCAP) with their completion of the Tour de l’Abitibi, the only international cycling stage race in North America for 17 and 18-year-olds. Ivy Rehab is a proud sponsor of this team, which sent five racers to the event. They competed in seven…
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Concussion Awareness is Crucial Step One
Concussion awareness first step in curbing repeated sports-related concussions among young athletes. It’s every sports parent’s worry: Watching your child take a hard fall and hit the ground, hoping not to see their head make contact with another player or the unforgiving court or field. Dizziness. Headaches. Confusion. Most concussion symptoms go unseen unless an…
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Multisport Athletes Flourish On and Off The Field
Being a multisport athlete allows student-athletes to flourish on and off the field. Is your child showing signs of being a multisport athlete at a young age? Have you noticed your son lights up when he joins his friends for Little League or your daughter wants to accompany you to the putting green and practice…
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On Your Mark – Ready For Race Day
A successful race day starts with appropriate preparation and training. Whether you’ve been training for your first couch-to-5K or you hit the race circuit every weekend, summer weather is here and that means plenty of chances to participate in fun walks/runs, competitive 5Ks, half-marathons, triathlons, and cycling events. No one is immune to injury or…
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Finger Fractures and Dislocations in Athletes
By Franklin Chen, MD Injuries to the fingers are common when playing sports. The majority of these injuries are simple sprains that only temporary affect athletic performance; however, some injuries are more complex requiring extensive treatment and a longer period of recovery. Diagnosing and treating these injuries appropriately is important in order to enable our…
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5 Ways Athletes Can Prevent Knee Injuries
Halfway through the 2013-14 basketball season, the Los Angeles Lakers announced that Kobe Bryant, a 16-time NBA All-Star, would miss the rest of the season with a debilitating knee injury1. And while you can’t blame Kobe’s absence for the Lakers terrible season (needless to say, they didn’t make the playoffs)2, it was clear that this…