I read a great article this weekend in the Health section of the Wall Street Journal titled: “As Sports Medicine Surges, Hope and Hype Outpace Proven Treatments”. It exposed a very common problem for today’s amateur athletes.
The insightful article written by Gina Kolata gives examples of motivated mature athletes with orthopedic injuries and no clear direction to assist their efforts to get back to their sports.
In an effort to regain their health, the trend is for some desperate athletes to chase expensive fads and unproven recovery techniques. In doing so, they’re spending way too much money and wasting lots of time.
Deciphering and interpreting the massive amount of sports medicine info available is not easy for anyone. If you Google search “low back pain” you’ll have 22,200,000 articles to read. Search for “treating knee tendonitis” and you only have 418,000 websites to peruse. Good luck trying to find a simple solution for the chronic knee pain that keeps you from losing that extra 20 lbs.
Are you looking for simple answers to your sports related injuries? Sure you do…..and you’re not alone!
Why I Created MRF
Marshall, Director of Enthusiasm
The reason why I created MikeRyanFitness.com is to help people. Besides, my free sports medicine website has saved me dozens of calls, texts and emails from family and friends from all over the world seeking medical advice. The MRF website has proved to be helpful in reducing the number of sports medicine questions asked by neighbors while I run with my happy dog Marshall.
MRF is a fun sports medicine resource designed to help optimistic athletes like YOU to avoid both simple and complex injuries. How many athletes, young and old, are in need of a easy-to-use sports medicine resource to help them to quickly recover from an orthopedic injury?
It’s more than you can imagine. This website fuses my passion to help people with my passion for sports medicine. I’m lucky that I’ve spent my lifetime doing both.
Pain Has No Geographic Limits
I’ve received dozens of great emails a month from athletes in pain and highly motivated to get back to the sports that they love. The emails range from a professional soccer player in Croatia with chronic knee pain following 2 ACL reconstructions and a microfracture surgery to a field hockey player from Tasmania, Australia who was excited to read my article on knee fat pad pain on the MRF website! Injury prevention and promoting sound and proven injury recovery programs is a high priority for MikeRyanFitness.
Keeping it Simple
My motto for the information provided on MikeRyanFitness.com remains the same: Provide sports medicine information that is simple to understand, easy to use and it creates FAST results. I’m a firm believer that this approach helps athletes understand their injury better and allows them to work more effectively with members of their healthcare team.
I’ve learned from over 23 years as a certified athletic trainer/physical therapist in the NFL that if I ask an injured athlete the proper questions, 90% of them are simply trying to find ways to:
1. Decrease their pain
2. Enhance their ability to move with less effort
3. Increase both their muscle strength & joint range of motion
If the sports medicine world were to stay focussed on those goals, athletes at any age would be active and healthier much faster. I can promise you that MikeRyanFitness will do just that. Sign up for our newsletter and let me help YOU!
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This website is a hobby of mine motivated by my passion to help others to enjoy a lifestyle of positive health and fitness. In an effort to enhance the lives of 1,000,000 people in the next 2 years, I need your help. Please take a moment to pass on my message, my website and my information to others for FREE sports medicine info to help improve the quality of their lives.
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