Injury prevention

Taking steps toward prevention

What we need to know

Activity and athletics are incubators for repetitive stress injuries. Stretching is thought to reduce injury but has been proven to do the reverse because muscles only know contraction and mitigation. Here are some things we need to know to start taking steps toward prevention:

  • What do analgesics do therapeutically and how helpful are they?
  • How helpful, if at all, is electricity against the body?
  • When should you apply hot and cold?
  • How can you avoid knee and hip injuries?
  • How can you prevent repetitive stress injuries?
  • How can I gain a perspective of my repetitive stress?
  • How do I mitigate my repetitive stress injuries?

Sometimes injuries occur because of the things that we know, but more often injuries occur for the things that we don't even think about like how often we’ve done a thing. Do you ever think about the things that you do during the day such as opening and closing your hand or how many stairs of climbed or how many time do you get in and out of your car. We are creatures of habit and we do things repetitively. It’s in our nature. We also tend to be very hopeful creatures because that ache or pain that we have just experienced we know it'll go away right! But to what end? It does return? Could it be that repetitive stress is one of the causes of arthritis as we see that repetitive stress in our athletes, basketball players, golfers, tennis, and baseball all leading to arthritic conditions of the medial and collateral ligaments or joints like elbow, wrist, hand, knee, ankle, and toes.

What we don’t know can hurt us!

If you don't know the nature of your repetitive stress, how will you address it? With the Ron McKnight’s protocol we create a repetitive stress profile based on the extent of the subject activity, our myofascial palpation and massage therapy techniques. We follow your activities at least once or twice monthly to assess pre-clinically treat or otherwise prevent the injury from worsening. For teams our protocol includes assessment beginning of the season, middle of the season and end of the season so as to uncover any pre-emergent injuries.


For teams we gather the team info as a whole, we are in keeping with the HIPPA regulations, of privacy and non- disclosure. This is valuable information for the stakeholders, coaches, trainers team doctors, individual members and family. The data will show where the team is maybe overtraining in specific muscle groups and joints gives the team coaches and trainers the opportunity to amend training routines. 

He saved my career a few times. As a former semi-pro cyclist, I had tendinitis and other overuse injuries. Ron McKnight helped me heal and prevent future injuries.

— Greg Wolfe —

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