Rooted Motion Blog

Pooling eleven studies covering more than fifteen thousand people, researchers found no association between temperature, humidity, air pressure or rainfall and the risk of a joint flare. Two in three people with osteoarthritis say the weather affects their pain. Both can be true, and the reason changes what is worth doing about it.

Across twenty-three seasons of professional Australian rules football, nine in every hundred hamstring injuries recurred in the first match back - and the risk stayed above normal for about fifteen weeks after returning. Long after the limp has gone, and long after most people consider the whole thing finished.

Pooling the untreated arms of twenty-four tennis elbow trials, 89% had recovered or greatly improved at one year with no treatment at all. For pain on the outside of the hip, the gap between exercise and waiting had not closed a year later.

In the sham-controlled trial, the real operation was no better than a pretend one at relieving catching and locking. In 817 knees scoped on suspicion of a tear, those symptoms were just as common whether or not a tear was found. What separates the two knees is something an examiner finds, not something you report.

A Cochrane review of the exercise trials for this tendon found seven of them, 211 participants, and every single trial in athletes averaging twenty-six. Pressing on the sore spot identifies the problem about two-thirds of the time in a tendon that already hurts, and barely a third as a screening test. Here is what the evidence supports, and what it cannot yet say.

In one randomized trial, postmenopausal women with low bone mass trained twice a week above 85% of a one-time maximum lift and gained 2.9% spine bone density. The group doing gentle home exercise lost 1.2%.

Pooling fifteen reviews covering a hundred and sixty-one studies, cold water immersion did reduce muscle soreness for as long as four days - and with regular use it blunted gains in muscle size. Feeling recovered and being recovered are different things.

Pooled across twenty-five trials and more than twenty-six thousand athletes, stretching reduced injury risk by essentially nothing while strength training cut it to roughly a third. The thing players fear losing holds up best.

If you are counting down to a date your surgeon mentioned, wondering whether you will serve the way you used to, or already back on court and quietly unsure whether your shoulder is ready for it, this is the article for you. The honest answer about return to tennis after surgery is that the date decides very little.

If you have been told you have a rotator cuff tear, the word tear probably did most of the work in that sentence. It sounds like something that has to be repaired, especially if you play a sport built on reaching overhead, and rotator cuff tear surgery can start to feel like a decision somebody has already made for you.

If your shoulder aches at the back after you play, clicks or seems to slide through the follow-through, feels blocked reaching across your body, or has simply lost power you cannot explain, there is a problem worth knowing about — and it is one that regularly gets missed.

If your child has gone from school tennis to lessons, tournaments and extra serving practice in the space of a season, or you have been handed a chart of test results and told where they should be, this is worth ten minutes of your time. Most youth tennis shoulder injuries build quietly, across months, while everyone is watching the scoreboard.