Tag Archives: sports performance

Can Visualization Improve Performance?

| August 10, 2021

Everyone daydreams, perhaps about a set of new clothes or winning the lottery. But can using your imagination bring about healthful changes to both your body and your mind? Can visualization improve our athletic and day-to-day performance? Athletes often report that visualization techniques help them do their best in reality. Recent research has demonstrated that […]

Shake Off Jumper’s Knee with Increased Strength

| August 4, 2018

Do you experience knee pain when you return to the basketball court after a layoff of a few months? If your knee always aches—even if you cannot remember incurring a specific injury—you may be suffering from jumper’s knee (formally known as patellar tendinopathy). This progressive deterioration is especially common among adult male basketball and volleyball […]