Changing the Game for Youth Sports Injuries – Introducing the KIME Human Performance Institute Foundation.

[ad_1] By Tony Mikla DPT, MSPT, CSCS, XPS   Being in the sports medicine and injury prevention space for over 20 years has taught me a lot about youth sports—and the challenges that come with youth injuries. For decades, we’ve known how to reduce injury risks, but making progress has been incredibly difficult because so…

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Does pain have a purpose?

[ad_1] Pain textbooks tell us, often in the first sentence of the book, that the function of pain is to protect the body. This is a common sense claim, but what does it actually mean scientifically, and what evidence supports it? To answer these questions, we need to look at the science of evolutionary adaptation,…

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Walking the Path to Wellness

[ad_1] You are here Home Our Stories Orphan and Vulnerable Children Walking the Path to Wellness Patricia Mbabazi’s smile fills the room as she attentively listens to Mahoro Florah, a matron at her school in Kisoro—in southwest Uganda, near the Rwanda border. Patricia, 16, is alive and healthy today, but it has been a difficult…

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