MSM offers accurate health information to help improve sports performance and prevent injury. Sample from an array of topics that include soccer-specific injury prevention, exercising in cold weather, preparing for your first marathon and what to do if you are experiencing foot pain.

Athletes with Asthma

• Creating a Proper Warm-up Routine
• Trigger Management
• Customizing a Medication Plan while Monitoring Pulmonary Function and Exercise
• Nutrition and Hydration
• Managing Tightness Once It Occurs
• Breathing and Relaxation Exercises
• Maximizing Fitness Once Asthma Is Controlled

Equipment

• Choosing the Right Running Shoe

Children and Sports

• Ease Into Summer Sports: Prevent Childhood Injuries
• Weight Training and Young Athletes

Nutrition, Hydration, Supplements

• Common Questions and Answers About Nutrition and Exercise
• Fluids, Dehydration and Thirst Quenchers
• Sports Enhancement Products: Buyer Beware
• Student Athlete Use of Performance Enhancing Supplements and Drugs: What Parents Can Do

Sports Injuries, Rehabilitation and Prevention

• Ankle Sprains: Get Back on Your Feet
• Core Training: Developing a Balanced Body
• Heads Up: Concussions Can Be Serious>
• Healing An Injury
• Improve Breathing, Improve Performance
• Jammed Fingers, Finger Sprains Common in Sports
• Overuse Injuries in Runners
• Plantar Fasciitis
• Recovery After Hard Exercise
• Recognizing Stress Fractures Can Be a Challenge
• Rehabilitating a Shoulder Impingement Injury
• Returning to Sports After An Ankle Sprain
• Score Points with Off-season Conditioning
• Score Points with Pre-season Soccer Strategy: Medical Advice for Common Questions
• Shin Splints
• Swimming-related Injuries
• Winter Workouts: Stay Healthy When the Days Turn Chilly

Endurance Training

• Marathons, Triathlons and Other Endurance Events: Last Minutes Tips to a Safe and Successful Race
• Recipes for Pre-race Training
• Sample Carbohydrate Loading Diet

First Aid
First Aid for Common Sports Injuries
Abrasions and Lacerations
Asthma
Bee Stings/Bug Bites
Concussions/Head Injury
Dizziness
Fractures/Dislocations
Insulin Reaction/Diabetic Coma
Internal Injuries
Nose Bleeds
Seizures
Shock
Skin Bruises/Contusions
Strains/Sprains

Surgical Conditions
Hip Arthroscopy

Rehabilitation for Muscle and Joint Conditions: Patient Information
ACL Reconstruction
Central Low Back Pain
Patellofemoral Syndrome
Shoulder Decompression
Frozen Shoulder
Neck Pain
Shoulder Impingement Syndrome
Shoulder Pain Due to Instability
Shoulder Rotator Cuff Repair

Video Resources
First Step: A Soccer-specific Injury Prevention and Sports Enhancement Program
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The following links are short clips from the First Step video; the clips are optimized for Windows Media Player.

•  Video Intro (4.6mb)
•  Soccer warm-up (3.7mb)
•  Agility Exercises (5.8mb)
•  Dr. Christopher Larson and Julie Tauer, PT (3mb)