Rooted Motion Blog

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 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.

If you have had one bout of shoulder trouble and would rather not have another, or you are adding tennis days and quietly wondering whether your shoulder will keep up, you are asking the right question at the right time. Tennis shoulder injury prevention is worth taking seriously — and it is also more modest than most programs claim.

Pooling fifteen studies of first-time ankle sprains, 8.1% still described the ankle as unstable a year later and around one in six had sprained it again. What changed after the sprain was not only the ligament.

When 3,656 recreational players were surveyed over six months, four out of five of their injuries were overuse rather than one bad moment. Front-of-knee pain is the version that waits for the drive home.

If you have ever pushed off hard for a wide forehand, felt your foot roll under you as you turned, and taken your shoe off two hours later to find the outside of your ankle puffed up, you have had a tennis ankle sprain.

If your child wins the flexibility test at every practice and has now started saying a knee feels wobbly or a shoulder slipped, this is worth understanding rather than panicking about.