But before you grab a tennis ball or foam roller, it’s important to understand what trigger points are, how they form, and the best technique for releasing them. Here’s your guide to trigger ...

Trigger point massage To really get the areas that are causing discomfort, Dr. Perkins recommends a trigger point foot massage. Sit in a chair with the tennis ball underneath your foot.

Why reluctance to penalize players for throwing rackets and hitting balls into the crowd will come back to bite the sport one ...

Why trigger points cause so much pain—and how you can relieve it. ... Philip notes. Self-massage—using a massage gun, a tennis ball, or a foam roller on the afflicted area—also can be helpful.

However, the ball went straight into umpire Ben Anderson's face. Marc Polmans was disqualified from Shanghai qualifying after hitting the umpire with a ball. He had match point, & launched the ...

Tennis balls can become lodged in a dog's throat, which is particularly true for large dogs that have bigger mouths. (Here's what to do if your dog has something stuck in its throat.)Even if the ...

CINCINNATI—Did we just witness the turning point in the issue of tennis’ lack of a video review system? After Friday night’s controversial end to the Cincinnati Open third-round clash ...

An easy tennis ball test can gauge grip strength. Getty Images. There are a few ways to gauge grip strength — such as a pricey handgrip dynamometer and the hanging bar method.

Do you have some tennis balls lying around your home? Dig them out and you can use them to mobilize your upper back, strengthen these hard-to-train muscles and correct poor posture with this novel ...

The medical term for muscle knots is myofascial trigger points. ... tennis ball or foam roller between their back and the wall or floor, using the pressure from the ball to massage the trigger point.

Six new tennis balls are issued at the start of a match. The players warm up, then, after the seventh game, six new ones are put in play. Every ninth game after that, a new half-dozen batch gets used.

Around 300 million tennis balls are produced each year — and almost all of them end up in landfills, taking over 400 years to decompose. The US Open, which ended at the weekend, goes through ...