Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness, or DOMS, is a common condition that can be experienced by anyone, from the novice athlete to the elite performer. Evolve Performance Healthcare takes a look at the best ways to prevent and manage DOMS.

Prescribing rehabilitation exercises using times, rather than sets and repetitions, is better suited for improving our function and performance in everyday life.

Odds are, if you played sports growing up you experienced an injury that somehow shaped who you are today. In fact, the most significant complication arising from previous injuries often isn’t the injury itself, but the mental shift that takes place after.Years later, the healing has taken place but the thoughts and feelings surrounding the injury still shape our actions.

When deciding to improve the way we move it's important to open up our minds a little bit and realize that movement effects all aspects of our life. That better movement not only prevents the pain and injury we associate with getting older, but improves our confidence, improves how we interact with those around us, and improves how we perform in the real world.

Recent evidence suggests that prolonged immobilization not only slows healing, but increases the chances of future complications. Research also shows that getting an injury moving (in a pain free range) is the best way to speed the healing process and prevent future injuries.

Ice or heat after an injury? Compression of Traction? Immobilization or movement? A new approach to post injury care may change how we manage injuries in the acute setting.