What Is Electrical Stimulation?
Electrical stimulation, or stim as you’ll hear it when you come in to visit us, is a tried and true fan favorite. This modality uses mild electrical pulses on the skin that is used to pinpoint the place of pain on the person and send those electrical pulses to injured muscles and ever nerve cells…
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Recovery Day Blog – Providing A Closer Look At Our Wellness Services, Therapies, and Treatments
Our Goal At Recovery Day Is To Provide You With Help and Healing Through Our Service Offerings and Education. Whether you are a casual runner, church league “baller”, high school baseball player, senior league bowler, collegiate tennis player, powerlifter, professional football player, or stay at home parent – all have a couple things in common.…
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The Training Room
In theory, the training room is just a large room that is filled to the brim with modalities, rehab equipment, and all of the fun devices that lead to better recovery. I would venture to say though, that any athlete who has spent significant time in the training room would also say that it is…
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Low Back Pain and Hips
Low back pain is arguably one of the most prominent issues in the world today. The back carries the bulk of our body weight and it is utilized in every single thing we do, from the way we wake up in the morning to each movement throughout the day. It is no surprise that eventually,…
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Wellness Wednesday
Ice is a scorching topic right now in the realm of sports recovery and therapy. There was a time where ice was the end-all-be-all when treating injuries and recovering from a hard workout. There is a definite decrease in how often ice is now used; however, ice is still great for helping your body heal…
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CrossFit Crescendo Recap
This past weekend Recovery Day had the opportunity to provide care to some of the most elite athletes that we have had the pleasure of working with. CrossFit Crash hosted their Crescendo event where teams from around the nation came to compete in hopes of punching their ticket to the CrossFit games quarter final qualifying…
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Client Spotlight: Liz
Liz has been an athlete for a large part of her life as she played 15 years of competitive soccer, including playing at the collegiate level. She now coaches a division 1 women’s soccer program, offering her skills to the field every so often. Being a competitor, Liz began CrossFit after she stopped playing soccer…
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Wellness Wednesday – Tape
There are a variety of reasons to use tape in the athletic training field, ranging from correcting posture, supporting muscles and tendons, and even providing stability to these areas of need. Taping gives support to weaker areas of the body while also working to reduce the motions that are causing the person pain. There are…
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Recovery Day Spotlight – Drew
Drew is in his junior year of high school and has been involved in track since the 8th grade. His primary events include long jump and high jump; core strength and flexibility are vital in success when jumping. With Drew being only 16 years old, he has grown substantially in these past couple of years;…
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HEAT – Wellness Wednesday
If there is one thing that all people seem to take a liking to it’s heat. Treating pain and tightness with heat almost always makes it feel better in that moment due to the increase in circulation and blood flow to a particular area. Increasing the temperature in a designated sport increases muscle and skin…
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