Health, Training & Athletic Conditioning Built To Last
Built To Last Rapid stops, lunges at the kitchen line and thousands of overhead reaches add up. Here is what published research and clinicians say about protecting the rotator cuff and knees, and why strength training is moving to the center of the conversation.
Rapid stops, lunges at the kitchen line and thousands of overhead reaches add up. Here is what published research and clinicians say about protecting the rotator cuff and knees, and why strength training is moving to the center of the conversation.
Two very different kinds of data tell the story, and they should not be confused. Emergency-room records skew toward sudden injuries such as fractures. Player surveys capture the slower, overuse problems that never reach an ER.
The survey figures come from a 2025 study in Frontiers in Public Health of 232 players at a 2024 tournament in South Korea. The average age was about 50. The emergency-room figure comes from a 10-year analysis of U.S. injury-surveillance…
