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We're often asked for the Pros and Cons of Laminate vs Wood vs Steel Athletic Training Room and Physical Therapy tables. This article presents the pros and cons of laminate vs wood vs steel so that you can make the best determination for your budget and your setting.

There are some 1,300 colleges and over 26,000 high schools in the United States who acquire sports medicine supplies and equipment, almost every year. A high percentage of those institutions submit bid requests to various distributors all within a 60-90 day window each spring. To service all of thos

its one piece of equipment that almost every athletic training room uses. Whether you're filling coolers with water and ice for practice, a whirlpool for to use as a cold soak or just an ice bag to be used as treatment ice - nearly every athletic training room uses ice. A lot of ice. Sometimes sever

In 1947, the Chattanooga Pharmaceutical Company developed a patent on a "colloid-filled jean-cloth bag" which could be soaked in hot water for the purpose of being used as a hot-pack. They also developed a heater that could be used to thermostatically control the temperature of water and maintain th

Two two edema management protocols are outlined below. Both are based on producing muscle contractions submaximal muscle contractions around the muscles surrounding the swollen knee joint. You can use two electodes or 4. Generally we put the electrodes over the anterior lateral and anterior medial a

Occasionally we field inquiries, even from athletic trainers about the tensile strength of athletic tape. Tensile strength is a way in which athletic tape is measured – different styles of tape have different tensile strengths. Those styles have different applications and there are a myriad of optio