Nicholas DiNubile Quotes (9 Quotes)

Improving your balance Wobble boards and other forms of balance training should be a part of every football player's regimen. You're often off-balance in a game, ... If you can correct for that and make adjustments quickly if you're hit, you might be lessening the risk or severity of an injury.

Can he be relied on week after week for the next few years as the No. 1 guy That will be the challenge.

I think most sports medicine docs aren't buying into that yet.

Not just two weeks before the season starts, and not just the legs. We now know that training the core abdominal and trunk muscles helps the knee because it stabilizes the torso and better distributes the stresses across your body.

Water is much kinder to your frame than other types of exercises, ... I recommend swimming and water-based exercise more to patients than just about any other form of exercise. For postoperative knee patients, I put them right in the water to regain motion rapidly.

That's good news and bad news. If the same area's torn, theoretically it's still only that area of the cuff is bad. If there's a new torn area, then you wonder if there's more overall cuff vulnerability in him.

The first time around, I was pretty optimistic that he'd come back. With two back-to-back rotator cuff tears, you just wonder how good the quality of the healing will be in that area.

Your body is more vulnerable as you age. So things you did before, you might not be able to withstand now.

It may actually interfere with normal muscle functioning. That data hasn't been real strong, but there is some suggestion there may be a little negative to wearing a brace as well.