Blood flow restriction to improve performance and injury recovery
Blood flow restriction or BFR has become popular in the last few years in the training and physical therapy field.
Blood flow restriction or BFR has become popular in the last few years in the training and physical therapy field.
Many countries have had to implement numerous preventive strategies due to the pandemic, and confinement is one of the most notable ones.
The routine monitoring of training loads and athletes’ fitness is an essential process to ensure an optimal performance progression.
Their mission at Barça is to work outside the immediacy of everyday life. Not to look just at the next game or the next season, but by means of the scientific method to look miles beyond the present, within a decade.
Forensic neuropathologist Bennet Omalu had no idea that the autopsy he was about to perform would turn the all-powerful National Football League on its head.
In 2008, neuroscientist John-Dylan Haynes conducted a set of experiments at the Bernstein Centre for Computational Neuroscience (Berlin) with the goal to learn more about the mechanisms of free will in human beings.
Muscle injuries are one of the main concerns in sports performance.
The international tournaments of national teams represent an important change in the players’ regular workload.
Hamstrings injury is the most frequent muscle injury in sports that require high speeds, such as football, rugby or American football.
Shoulder problems are quite common, with 30% of people suffering pain in this part of the body at some moment in their lives.