Dojo Medicine

 Dojo Medicine on USAdojo.com offers articles for martial arts instructors and others with information on how to avoid and treat sports injuries that can occur when training in the martial arts.

Athlon Rum

Athlon Rub – Thai Oil Review

8th degree Black Belt Danny Dring Reviews Athlon Rub Highly accomplished martial artist Danny Dring talks about Athlon Rub giving first hand feedback from this...

Athlon Rub: A Scientifically New Approach on an Ancient Tradition

Athlon Rub is a scientifically new approach on an ancient tradition. Based on the famed Thai oil that kickboxers around the world use to...
Typical Injuries in Martial Arts

Typical Martial Arts Injuries

A sports injury in the narrow sense of meaning signifies the injury typical of a particular sports activity or a certain sport, according to...
Punch forces out Mouthguard

Protective Equipment: Mouthguards

Orofacial injuries are very common and are a result of afflictions of many types. Except in traffic accidents, fights, unfortunate incidents, occupational accidents, injuries...
Dojo Medicine

Youth Participation and Injury Risk in Martial Arts

This clinical report describes important techniques and movement patterns in several types of martial arts and reviews injury risk in martial arts. The martial arts...
Triage Area

The Triage Process in the Dojo

This installment of Dojo Medicine is a recent true story from our dojo and how we managed the triage process in the dojo. We were...
Do Not Let Fear Be a Factor

Do Not Let Fear Be A Factor In The Martial Arts

Anxiety can get the best of us, but do not let fear be a factor in the martial arts. The key is to know...
Martial Arts Injuries

Don’t Let Martial Arts Injuries Get the Best of You

If you train in the martial arts long enough, you are going to get busted up a few times while training. Most likely the...
Dojo Medicine

Dojo Medicine

Dan Harden's Dojo Medicine: Management of Dojo Injuries As martial arts instructors we will all face the occasional student training injury and we should be...
Dane Harden Doctor at the Veteran's Administration

Zazen Meditation Heals an Old Soldier

On a cold day, I sat in traditional Seiza doing zazen meditation to calm my body and mind, along with misogi purification, after washing my entire body. My...
Dr. Grant Smith

Low Back Pain Exercises

In my previous article we established that exercises are beneficial for those who suffer from low back pain. Keep in mind that these exercises...
Dojo Stress

Dojo Stress

In our lives we often have little or no time to ever relax. When was the last time you sat down and simply thought...
Everywhere is the dojo for Dane Harden

Everywhere is the Dojo If the Mind is Right

Jiki Shin Kore Dojo . . . Everywhere is the Dojo If the Mind is Right! This is the concept that I was asked to evaluate and...
Dr. Grant Smith

Alleviating Low Back Pain is the Goal

This article is about low back pain. Low back pain is the second most common reason for doctors’ visits outnumbered by a slim margin...
Wrap Martial Arts Injury

Dealing With Injuries

Martial arts training is largely a physical activity. In this, it can be compared to any other high-intensity sport. What that means is that...
Joe Lewis Research Conference 2012

Dojo Medicine Comes to Joe Lewis Research Conference

I was asked to teach Dojo Medicine concepts at the Joe Lewis Research Conference in Tampa, Florida in 2012. Joe wanted the format to...