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Top 50 Sports Medicine Blogs

Miranda — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 04:29:14 +0000

If you are involved with sports medicine, you know that it is important to find good information about better caring for those involved with sports. Sports medicine is becoming increasingly important as we recognize the specific challenges and needs associated with treating injuries caused by participation in sports, as well as keeping bodies healthy and fit for peak athletic performance. Here are 50 of the best sports medicine blogs:

Basic Sports Medicine

These blogs provide an overview of sports medicine, and include discussions on a number of topics related to sports medicine:

Sports Medicine: Learn about proper injury prevention and more from this blog featured on Suite 101.
Sports Injury Info: Get the basics of sports injury news, and information on what you can do to prevent the sorts of injuries that sideline professional athletes.
The Disabled List: A helpful blog that includes a number of common sports injuries, along with how to treat them.
Sports Injury Clinic: Read about how to avoid sports injuries, and what to do with them if you are injured.
Natural Sports Medicine Blog: Learn about issues in sports medicine and how to stay healthy in a natural way.
Doc for Jocks: This sports medicine professional shares insight and information on remaining healthy while playing sports.
Sports Medicine Blog: This About.com blog covers the essentials of sports medicine.
Spine & Sports Medicine Blog: Get insight into how to prevent spinal injury while engaging in sporting activities.
Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Blog: Dr. Howard Luks offers a look at how to protect yourself from sports injuries.
Basics Sports Medicine: Get an overview of sports medicine and the basics of avoiding sports related injuries.

Procedures and Rehabilitation

Get helpful information on procedures in sports medicine, as well as rehabilitation information.

Rehab and Sports Medicine Blog: This blog features information on rehabilitation from sports injuries.
Movement Science: This blog and podcast includes helpful information on how the body works through movement, and offers insight into sports medicine.
MikeReinold.com: Learn about different injuries and rehab for those injuries.
Physical Therapy: About.com offers this great blog on physical therapy and how you can rehab from injuries.
SMARTT: This blog looks at sports medicine, arthroscopy, rehabilitation, therapy and technology. Learn the latest advancements in science when it comes to sports medicine rehab procedures.
Manual Therapy and Physical Medicine: Learn about physical medicine and manual therapy, and how it can help with sports injuries.
Physical Therapy Exercises: Interesting exercises that can help with sports injury rehabilitation.
98.6: Dr. Pribut’s Blog: This doctor looks at rehab, and concentrates especially on running injuries.
Commonwealth Sports Medicine: This is an interesting blog from an athlete point of view, helping each other treat sports injuries.
Brent Atwater’s Alternative Sports Medicine: This blog looks at alternative diagnostics and treatments for sports injury rehabilitation.

Sports Training

Learn about proper conditioning so that you train your body to perform well.

Sports Training Blog: Information about techniques and products that can help you improve your sports performance.
Functional Path Training: Learn how to train yourself for better sports performance by following the “functional path.”
Powering Through: This blog is about strength training and conditioning.
Melinda’s Fitness Blog: Get tips on physical conditioning and fitness aimed specifically at women.
Military Fitness Blog: This cool blog helps you train your body the military way.
Fitness Rocks: Train your body for better performance by staying in good shape the health way.
Turbulence Training: Learn how to improve your body’s fitness and conditioning through proper training.
Fitness Trainer Blog: A personal training blog aimed at women, but with great tips for staying in good shape.

Health and Nutrition

Part of avoiding sports injuries and performing at a peak level is to live a healthy lifestyle. These blogs can help you with nutrition and health matters for improved sports performance.

Vitamin Stuff Blog: Learn more about supplements and making sure you get the right nutrients.
Fitness & Health: Dr. Gabe Mirkin offers insight into proper health and fitness.
Sports Nutrition: This blog looks at how you can improve your health and sports performance with proper nutrition.
Advanced Diet and Sports Nutrition Blog: Learn about how an advanced diet can help you improve how you do in sports.
Brad Pilon’s Blog: This is a nutrition blog aimed at helping you improve your health.
Armstrong Podiatry & Sports Health’s Blog: This blog looks at sport health from the perspective of a podiatrist.
Zen to Fitness: Create overall wellness in fitness with this blog aimed at helping you create holistic health.
Fit Buff: Different articles and posts about living a healthy lifestyle and improving your athletic performance.
Lift: Learn about lifestyle choices that can lead to a healthier you.

Specific Sports

Learn about injuries and staying healthy when you play certain sports.

A Trail Runner’s Blog: Stay healthy and avoid injury as a trail runner.
A Passion for Running: This blog looks at how you can get back into it, even if you have been injured.
Yoga Blog: Learn about the benefits of yoga, and how it can help you avoid injury in a number of sports.
Triathlon Training Blog: Get the inside scoop on training for a triathlon and avoiding injury while you do so.
Golf Sports Medicine: Keep injury free while playing golf.
Dr. Josh Dines and Dr. Rock Positano: These two orthopaedic trained docs talk about sports injuries related to soccer and basketball.
Sports Injury Surgery: This blog looks at surgery related to sports injuries.

Anatomy and Physiology

Knowing how the body works and is put together is an essential part of sports medicine. These blogs can help give you an understanding of issues related to how the body works.

Science-Based Medicine: Look at the practice of medicine, and the basics of evidenced based treatments.
Musings of a Distractible Mind: Get an idea of how the body works, and insights into health and wellness, from this primary practice physician.
An Anatomy and Physiology Blog: Learn about the basics of how the human body is put together, how it moves, and how it works.
physiologynews: Get the latest information in physiology and human development.
BooneThink: This blog is devoted to exercise physiology, looking at the way exercise impacts the body.
Anatomy and Physiology Blog: This blog from Sacramento State looks at how the body works, and includes posts on the effects of sports injuries on the body.

Top 50 Blogs for Pregnant Working Moms

Miranda — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 18:19:33 +0000

These days, it is not uncommon for moms to work outside the home either part time or full time. However, being a working mother carries with it certain challenges. It can be extremely helpful for some working mothers to be able to connect with those who have similar interests and challenges, and even get a little career advice and help. Here are 50 blogs for pregnant working moms who want to connect:

General Pregnancy Blogs

Learn about pregnancy and the development of your baby. Learn what to expect, and how to cope with the situation. Also includes blogs on fertility, miscarriage and more.

Stirrup Queens: Learn more about the ups and downs of all things related to having babies.
A Little Pregnant: Follow the crazy adventures associated with pregnancy.
Serenity Now!: A blog about finding serenity during the craziness of pregnancy, fertility treatments and all things child-related.
Relaxing Doesn’t Make Babies: A look at attempts to get pregnant, and how to deal with being pregnant.
Babyfruit: This is a blog about pregnancy, and, specifically, miscarriage. However, it also goes through successful pregnancy and mothering.
How To Make a Family: An interesting blog about the business of baby-making.
Fit Pregnancy Blog: Learn to take better care of yourself — and your baby — during pregnancy.
Pregnancy & Baby Blog: Get an idea of your baby’s development, learn how to cope with pregnancy, and learn to care for your baby.

Childbirth Blogs

Learn more about childbirth and what to expect. Helpful information on having a helpful baby, and also information on breastfeeding and care for your baby.

Enjoy Birth: Provides you with helpful information on making childbirth a more enjoyable experience.
Bellies and Babies: Learn about having babies, issues in childbirth and how to make the most of your mothering experience.
Childbirth Today: This is a good look at modern childbirth and how you can approach it in a healthier way.
Natural Childbirth & Baby Care: Tips for having a natural childbirth and for taking care of your baby in a more natural manner.
A Much Better Blog: Focuses on childbirth and caring for children in a more sustainable way.
Breastfeeding Mums: Learn more about breastfeeding, and how it can benefit you and your child.
WorkAndPump: This is a great site about milk production and more for working mothers who need to pump.
The Working Cow: Another place to find focus on working while caring for an infant.

Working Mom Blogs

Once you have the baby, you become a working mom (or maybe you already are and are on your second or third child). It can be helpful to get tips, information and connect to other moms who work.

Not Just a Working Mom: Explores the lifestyle of a working mom who wants to actually have her own life in between all of her responsibilities.
Work It: This blog aimed at working mothers can help you learn to balance work and being a mom.
The Intrepid Mompreneur: Chronicles the efforts of a mom who starts businesses and writes books. Oh, and she’s divorced and paying alimony.
BellyItch: This mompreneur works from home and writes about it, along with a healthy helping of celebrity mom gossip.
Wonderbelly: Another great blog from a work at home mom (WAHM).
Another Working Mom: A blog about raising kids while you work.
STLWorkingMom: This is aimed at working moms in St. Louis, but the advice and help applies to working moms just about everywhere.
The Juggle: The Wall Street Journal offers a blog, offered by Sue Shellenbarger, on juggling work and family.
Crazy Working Mom: Follow the adventures of a mom as she attempts to keep her sanity as she balances kids and work.

Mom Blogs with Attitude

Not all moms are sugar sweet. Indeed, many of them are quite feisty. Get a little dose of motherhood served with attitude.

Dooce: This is the blog that made mommyblogging a household name. Unconventional look at the life of a mother.
Queen of Spain: This politically active mom has attitude and then some. Also, read about her ongoing health problems as she attempts to raise a family.
Motherhood Uncensored: Get down to the nitty gritty of everyday motherhood.
Baby Bunching: A blog my moms who are bunching their babies up and telling it like it is.
Two Moms Make a Baby: This is an interesting and unconventional blog about a same-sex couple and their journey to having a baby.
Suburban Turmoil: Get a full dose of feisty mothering reality on this blog that is open about the sometimes challenging way of life as a suburban mom.
MomGrind: This mother and professional blogger writes about issues facing society, women in general and mothers.
Crazy Bloggin’ Canuck: Get motherhood from a Canadian perspective. And enjoy the craziness that is being a mom.
City Mama: Get a taste of motherhood, city-style. Upfront and real, this mom offers a great deal of interesting information for your life, as well as for raising children.

Christian Mom Blogs

If you are concerned about your Christian sensibilities and raising children, you can get a different perspective on parenting and mothering.

A Homegrown Life: A look at motherhood from a conservative Christian point of view.
LA Moms Blog: This blog is written by a collection of moms in LA, many of them Christian and liberal.
A Day in the Life of MaMa: Get an inside look at raising children as a Christian. She’s a stay at home mom, but her insights are applicable to working moms.
Christian Working Mom: Provides insight into maintaining Christian values in your home, even while working outside it. Also includes an online Bible study.
Christian Work at Home Moms: If you work from home and are a Christian mother, this blog can help you learn helpful tips and hints and improve your mothering abilities.
Desperately Seeking Sanity: The adventures of a Christian mom who is single, and looking.
Pregnant Women and Babies: Written from a Christian perspective, this blog is about pregnancy and having children.
MomSense: This is the blog about mothering from Christianity Today. A modern look at Christian child-rearing.

Career Blogs

Get some help with your career from these helpful and interesting blogs.

Work It, Mom!: This blog helps you navigate the challenges of developing your career while being a mom.
Jobs and Moms: This career center can help you get tips and tools to excel in your career.
Career Woman Blog: Unlock your potential in your career, even while fulfilling other responsibilities and woman roles.
Be Gutsy Blog: This is a blog focusing on women in the workplace. It also offers a job board for women, and focuses on women for hire.
Women’s Leadership: Gain inspiration from women leaders, and learn how to develop your own leadership skills.
SCORE Women’s Success Blog: Learn about starting your own business and succeeding.
Moms Home Biz Blog: All about starting a work from home business that can help you advance your career while taking care of children at home.
Personal Development for Smart People: This general personal and career development blog can help you get the skills you need to improve your career chances.