Now that the U.S. Open is in it’s Semi-Finals, some players are healing injuries in Physical Therapy right now. In fact, Physical Therapy is proven to be just as effective healing an elbow injury as surgery in some cases. One common tennis injury is of course tennis elbow. Elbow injuries make it extremely difficult to use your arms and lift normal everyday objects.
This week the 2016 U.S. Open Tennis Grand Slam began. Heavy favorites on the men's side if Novak Djokovic and Serena Williams on the women's side. Many tennis players suffer knee injuries due to the constant side to side movement.
A bad ankle sprain or foot fracture normally takes six weeks to 3 months to heal. It is crucial to protect your feet during this healing process but after the healing is completed, the work is not over because it is extremely easily to re-injure your ankle due to the weakness of that ankle.
Usain Bolt became the world’s fastest many yesterday once again winning the men’s 100m race in Track & Field. He has won the gold medal at the Olympics in this event three straight times.
Congratulations to Michael Phelps who now has four gold medals in the 2014 Rio Olympics games. His performance is astounding as he is one of the oldest swimmers in the pool. Even though swimming is quite a fluid exercise, some of these swimmers still develop injuries.
