Lorenzo Cain Injury: "Bone Bruise"

October 4th, 2015

It’s Just a Bruise, Right??? The American League Central-winning Kansas City Royals are steamrolling into the playoffs that get started this week.  Kansas City has been abuzz this week over All-Star centerfielder Lorenzo Cain and the “bone bruise” he’s battling in his knee.  Lorenzo’s tough and it sounds like he’s going to grind it out

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High Ankle Sprain

September 30th, 2015

Physical Therapy for High Ankle Sprains We posted a blog previously about inversion ankle sprains, the more common and usually much less painful ankle sprain.  However, there is another type of ankle sprain, the “high ankle sprain” or otherwise known in sports medicine circles as the “syndesmotic  ankle sprain.”  High ankle sprains account for only

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Epsom Salt Bath

September 21st, 2015

Do Epsom Salt Baths Work? Oh, the millions of remedies out there promising faster healing, relief from aches and pains, faster recovery, “detoxification,” and the list goes on.  The physical therapists at SSOR are asked on a regular basis – “Is there any benefit of X to help with X?”  One of the ones that

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