Commonwealth Sports Medicine

There are three kinds of athletes: those that have been injured, those that are injured, and those that will be injured.  To excel in competitions athletes must push themselves to their limits.  To train for competitions they must overload their physical systems in order to obtain a training adaptation.  It’s at these times that injuries [...]

Dana Blackmer, Sports Psychologist is here with video’s of the upcoming Jefferson Cup Road Race, with an additional kick: tips on how to use imagery techniques while watching the videos to improve mental preparation and enhance performance.  Dana additionally gives you turn by turn video narration highlighting many facets of the course from former winner Gary Hoffman’s [...]

Here is an article that patient passed on to me this past week…..Dr. Stadler Personal Best But First, Doctor, What Was Your Marathon Time? HIPPOCRATES THE OLYMPIAN Athletic patients may want to find physically fit physicians. YOU are an athlete, or, at least, very active. Should you seek doctors who are athletes, too? After all, [...]

Pain in the front of the knee that is worse with hill running or long term sitting is likely due to a poorly understood but very common condition. This condition is so poorly understood that experts can’t even agree what to call it. It goes by: Anterior knee pain; Chondromalacia patella; Patellofemoral arthralgia (PFA); Patellofemoral [...]

My Aching Heal!!!! That ice pick stab into the bottom of your heal when you step out of bed in the morning is probably caused by plantar fasciitis (fashee-EYE-tiss). The plantar fascia is a band of tissue that goes from the bottom of the heel (calcaneus) to the ball of the foot (metatarsal heads), as [...]