Understanding Sports Medicine

As an athlete, when you hurt yourself you won't the best care to get back on your feet, especially when sports is your full time job or your future. Understanding sports medicine can help you make the correct decision when choosing a physician to treat your pain or injury.

Sports Medicine Physician


A sports medicine physician has training that deals with sports or exercise related injuries and their main goal is to diagnosis these injuries, prevent these injuries or treat these injuries. Sports medicine physicians receive training like any other doctor; they have to go through additional special training and finish a residency program.

Sports Science

Sports science or exercise science is the study of the principals of psychology, physiology and anatomy as the correlate with movement and activity. One myth of sports medicine is that it focuses strictly on professional athletes, however the general population, the elderly, or children can also benefit from this science.

Now that you understand sports medicine, choose a qualified doctor to treat your injuries. If you are looking for a New York Physiatrist consider Dr. Ingber, a physiatrist in Brooklyn and in Manhattan who specializes in physical medicine, rehabilitation, and sports medicine. Visit us online at http://www.dringber.com/.

Pain and Rehabilitation

In this article we will discover why rehabilitation is needed for back and neck pain as well as what treatment entails. Why? Because pain can be debilitating; especially when over the counter medicine and prescription medicine stops working. Your next non-evasive choice is rehabilitation. Rehabilitation is an amazing way to treat back and neck pain.

Rehabilitation allows you to not only get treatment but become informed about:

1. How to strengthen your abdominal muscles to help lower back pain
2. What exercises are right?
3. What type of brace is needed?
5. Should you add cold or hot applications?
5. When should you rest and how long?
6. How much activity can you do?

The questions are many and the answers are the key to your recovery. However, Dr. Ingber's three phase rehabilitation program can help you get back on your feet pain free:

Phase I: The acute phase
In this phase diagnosis and treatment plans are put together based on your tests. These treatments may include ultrasound, electrical stimulation, injections or maybe just ice.

Phase II: The Recovery Phase
The recovery phase takes a pain patient and gets him or her moving again by using flexibility and strength exercises. Each exercise has been specially designed to rebuild the body.

Phase III: The Maintenance PhaseThe maintenance phase is to prevent future or further injury and minimize your chances of the injury happing again. This phase uses total body fitness.

Remember, If you are looking for a New York Physiatrist consider Dr. Ingber, a physiatrist in Brooklyn and in Manhattan who specializes in physical medicine, rehabilitation, and sports medicine. Visit us online at http://www.dringber.com/.

Trigger Point Injections

A trigger point injection is used to treat a painful area in a muscle. So how do you know if you have a trigger point? Well, let’s say you are in the gym working your muscles. A normal muscle will contract and relax as it’s active. However, a trigger point is band of muscle that is tight. A trigger point will form when muscles fail to relax and often the muscle will jump when touched.

One of the tricky things about trigger points is that they can cause referred pain. You know how your wisdom tooth may begin to hurt but you feel like you have an earache? Well, trigger points can cause referred pain also, or pain felt in another part of the body.

As a physiatrist, Dr. Ingber can administer trigger point injections to alleviate pain especially in the arms, legs, lower back, and neck. A small needle is inserted into the trigger point and a anesthetic is injected. Afterwards you may feel a twitch or pain that lasts a few seconds or minutes, also numbness may last an hour or you may bruise at the injection site.

If you are looking for a New York Physiatrist consider Dr. Ingber, a physiatrist in Brooklyn and in Manhattan who specializes in physical medicine, rehabilitation, and sports medicine. Visit us online at http://www.dringber.com.

What Is Physiatry?

Physiatry is a physician that specializes in physical medicine and rehabilitation. Basically, when you go see a physiatrist he or she will provide treatment in order to get your musculoskeletal system functioning at its full potential.

Physiatrist are different from physical therapist because not only is they study 3 times as long as a physical therapist, but they are diagnosticians who have the knowledge of neurology and orthopedics as well as the ability to read and interpret a number of test including MRI's and EMG's. A physical therapist cannot make diagnoses or prescribe drugs.

If you are looking for a New York Physiatrist consider Dr. Ingber, a physiatrist in Brooklyn and in Manhattan who specializes in physical medicine, rehabilitation, and sports medicine.

About Dr. Reuben S. Ingber

Dr. Reuben S. Ingber holds a Bachelor of Science (Magna Cum Laude) degree from Brooklyn College and a Doctor of Medicine degree from the State University of New York Downstate Medical Center. He completed his specialty training in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at New York Hospital/Cornell Medical Center, where he also served as chief resident. He is Board Certified in both Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation as well as Pain Management. He is a Clinical Instructor in the Department of Rehabilitation of Medicine at New York Hospital-Cornell Medical Center, and a Clinical Assistant Professor at SUNY Downstate. He is the past Chairman of the Myofascial Pain Special Interest Group of the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation, and the author of a position paper on trigger point injections for the American Academy of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation.

Dr. Ingber has published and lectured extensively, both nationally and internationally, on the topic of trigger points and myofascial pain. He has been actively involved in training other doctors on the use of trigger points and myofascial pain treatments.

Dr. Ingber treats patients for a variety of conditions, including:

* Sports injuries
* Automobile and work-related injuries
* Repetitive stress injuries in musicians and dancers
* Disc herniation and sciatica
* Neck, back, and extremity pain
* Numbness and pain in the arms and legs
* Carpal tunnel sydrome
* Arthritis, bursitis, and tendinitis
* Myofascial pain and trigger points

Dr. Ingber's management of patients includes:

1. Objective assessment of muscoloskeletal and neurologic disorders of soft tissue injuries.

2. Effective treatment of the pain and dysfunction, returning the patient to maximal activity and minimal pain.

3. Long-term prevention through a detailed exercise program