Accelerate: Sport and Spine Rehab

04/28/2026

We love getting feedback from our patients, it means the world to us!!

04/27/2026

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04/24/2026

Compression therapy offers significant benefits by using dynamic air pressure to massage limbs, enhancing circulation, reducing muscle soreness, and accelerating recovery times.

04/23/2026

Not every ACL recovery looks the same, and that’s how is should be. Everybody has a different body, our professionals understand that. Today we progressed into charge of direction, deceleration and acceleration. 🙌⚽️🏃‍♀️‍➡️

04/22/2026

At Accelerate you are never handed off to an assistant or sent with a print out to do exercises on your own. Every session is a 1 on 1 with a professional and exercises tailored to you. 💪💥🏋️‍♂️

04/21/2026

04/20/2026

Don't wait for injury to strike! Call our team today to schedule your Performance Physical (830) 743-9911 ☎️👩‍⚕️

04/19/2026

Rounded out a great week getting patients back in action! 🙌😃

04/17/2026

Great Night Celebrating Team Accelerate 🎉🏀

03/26/2026

I have seen some hot debates lately about knee valgus. Let’s go after it…..

Knee valgus control matters, when it matters.

🥇Strongest evidence
• ACL risk
- Especially in field and court sports
- Especially during cutting, deceleration, and other high-speed reactive tasks

🥈Some evidence, but less cleanly isolated
• Jump-landing mechanics in ACL contexts
- Better thought of as part of a broader ACL risk cluster, not a stand-alone villain

🥉Weaker / inconsistent evidence
• Patellofemoral pain
• Patellar tendinopathy
• Non-Specific Knee Pain

🤔Related, but different framing
• Gluteal tendinopathy
- The stronger issue is hip adduction/compressive load, not valgus per se

👉 So instead of asking:
“Does fixing valgus reduce injury risk?”
👉 A better question is:
“Does improving system capacity and coordination change how valgus is expressed under load?”

Clinical Framework
👉 Knee Pain is:
• Driver → load tolerance mismatch, quad capacity, exposure errors
• Recipient → knee joint
• Valgus → often expression, sometimes modifier, rarely the driver

There are contexts where valgus moves up the hierarchy:
👉 High-speed, high-load, low-time-to-correct environments
• ACL injury (especially non-contact)
• Cutting/reactive sport tasks
• Post-ACL return-to-sport�
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03/23/2026

Early specialization isn’t a shortcut. It’s a tradeoff.

You don’t build great athletes by narrowing them early…
you build them by expanding what they can do.

Repetition matters.
Adaptability matters more.

The athlete who learns to move in different directions, solve new problems, and adjust in real time builds a foundation that lasts.

Lock them into one path too soon and you might get a polished 12-year-old…

…but often at the cost of a burned-out 17-year-old.

Variety isn’t a distraction.
It’s the foundation. 🔥

03/19/2026

Yes, hormones matter. But you know what matters more for injury prevention in female athletes?

→ Sleep quality
→ Recovery habits
→ Load management
→ Neuromuscular training
→ Strength development

Research generally finds neuromuscular factors dominate injury risk, more than anatomy or hormones.

Approximate ranking (most supported → least):

1️⃣ Sleep deprivation / recovery deficits
2️⃣ Hamstring–quadriceps imbalance
3️⃣ Hip weakness + dynamic valgus (often with Q-angle)
4️⃣ Quadriceps strength deficits
5️⃣ Q-angle alone
6️⃣ Menstrual cycle phase

Don’t send young female athletes into the world thinking their body is working against them. Give them tools that actually change outcomes.