Mike Ryan is an expert in the Sports Medicine field. Mike's objective for MikeRyanFitness.com is simple: to provide athletes with elite sports medicine information that is easy to learn, simple to use and creates fast results.
Appreciating the Gift of Good Health
It didn’t take long before I knew it would be a special day. This past Sunday morning I lined up to start the 5th running of the Run With Donna 1/2 Marathon in Jacksonville, FL. It was 29 degrees, windy, still dark and exciting when the 4500+ runners started the dash towards the bridge. All [...]
An NFL Athletic Trainer’s Life During the Off-Season
It’s been 184 days or 6 months since the very first NFL pre-season game when the Chargers hosted the Seahawks on August 11, 2011. Every week for the past 6 months we’ve had football every weekend ending with one of the most exciting Super Bowl games every played last weekend. “….Are you ready to miss [...]
High Ankle Sprain Management in the NFL
New England Patriots’ TE Rob Gronkowski’s ankle sure is getting a great deal of attention as we head into this weekend’s big Super Bowl matchup. Managing a high ankle sprain is not easy. Rehabbing a high ankle sprain requires a significant amount of experience. Managing this injury is a balance of properly stabilizing of the entire lower leg while assessing the athlete’s function prior to [...]
Injury Prevention Made Practical
I have 33 days to get ready for a 1/2 marathon, 13.1 miles. I’ll save you the details of my To Do List for the last 33 days but trust me when I say it was less than relaxing. Yesterday was my “Kick Myself in the Ass” day to do my first run of over [...]
Five (and 1/2) Lessons I Learned from Maurice Jones-Drew
This NFL season marked a milestone for me. With twenty-four years in the league, I’ve now spent half my life on the sidelines working in elite sports medicine. To say the least, the 2011-12 NFL season was a turbulent and fascinating one for the Jacksonville Jaguars. We fired our head coach, Jack DelRio, at mid-season. [...]
