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Mar 2025
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120: Ask the Sports Docs: The Evidence f...

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About this episode

We get lots of questions from our patients and our listeners each week, and they’re great questions, so rather than responding individually we thought we’d do these mini episodes where highlight some of the best questions and our responses. So, let’s get started! 

Today’s Ask The Sports Docs is going to focus on an area of sports medicine that we get asked a lot, despite us being surgeons: “What nonsurgical treatments can I do to rehab my musculoskeletal injury as well as improve my performance and prevent reinjury?”

Specifically: 

Does Kinesiotaping actually improve recovery and performance?

Does sports massage therapy help with muscle recovery and injury prevention, or is it just a feel-good treatment?

What does the research say about acupuncture for pain relief and recovery in athletes?

 

 

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