A new treatment offered at a Bristol hospital has helped a former national league hockey player to get back to fitness. Fifty-two-year-old Russell Cotter, from Clifton, is a sports and fitness enthusiast whose active lifestyle was seriously curtailed when he strained both Achilles tendons last year...

When Kings All-Star center DeMarcus Cousins arrived at Sacramento High School on Thursday, he believed he was doing his job. At the DeMarcus Cousins Elite Skills Basketball Camp – free for the 200 youngsters – he wasn’t just making an appearance...

Earlier this summer, Rudy Gay underwent shock wave treatment -- not surgery -- to alleviate pain in his Achilles, a source confirmed to CSNCalifornia.com. In his interview earlier this week with Sactown Royalty, Gay stated that he had undergone surgery to repair micro tears in his Achilles...

Sending low-frequency acoustic shock waves to injured muscles could speed up the healing process in the tissues, says an interesting study. The Extracorporeal Shock Wave Therapy (ESWT) works by mechanically stimulating the tissue, which prompts stem cells to kick-start repair work...

Sending low-frequency shock waves through injured muscles could rapidly accelerate their recovery, according to a groundbreaking study. The findings could have a significant impact on the treatment of sporting injuries, potentially enabling athletes to make a swift return to training...

Shockwave therapy is a highly effective way of treating pain without the need for surgery. It has proved to be massively beneficial to professional sportsmen and women with chronic tendon injuries...

A Chinese study in PLOS One suggests that extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) may be an effective pain reliever for patients suffering from coccydynia...

BOSTON (CBS) — Shoulder pain is one of the most common reasons people go to the doctor and rotator cuff injuries are one of the most common causes of shoulder pain...

Bunions, plantar fasciitis, hammertoes and pain in the ball of the foot, among others, can be treated, before a patient goes under the knife, podiatrists say...

You don’t need to play tennis to get tennis elbow. The condition, also known as lateral epicondylitis, is an aggressive form of tendinitis in which the tissue that connects the elbow joints is severely scarred and torn...

One man most people wouldn't associate with poor performance in the bedroom is cricket ledgend Sir Ian Botham. The sporting lothario's autobiography is tellingly named Don't Tell Kath, and one former lover even claimed that one romp with him was so animated it broke the bed...

HOLLYWOOD — Dwyane Wade offered a revelation Thursday about the knee issues that limited him during last season's run to the NBA championship . . . and it was shocking...