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Sporting Kansas City’s Chance Myers’ Achilles Tendon Rupture

May 26th, 2014

Rehabilitation for Achilles Tendon Rupture: Sporting’s Chance Myers Chance Myers of Sporting Kansas City tore his Achilles tendon last Friday against Toronto FC.  This is a huge injury both for Sporting KC as well as for Chance Myers.  Achilles tendon reconstructions are arguably the toughest injury for athletes to come back from, even more so

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Physical Therapy for Hypermobility: Are You Too “Loose?”

May 11th, 2014

Rehabilitation for Hypermobility of Joints It’s interesting in physical therapy when we don’t see something for a while, then get a “run” on the same diagnosis.  We’ve had a few people recently that failed therapy elsewhere likely from not being diagnosed properly.   We’ve had some folks come in with widespread hypermobility lately.  These people

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Hip Pointers: A Painful Injury for Athletes

April 26th, 2014

How to Treat a Hip Pointer “Hip pointers” are a nagging, painful injury that athletes have to deal with.  They tend to hurt with many activities and when severe enough, can even prevent an athlete from playing.  We see these from time to time at SSOR.  Patients are often erroneously diagnosed or have doctors and

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