Throughout your running career, you will experience various types of aches and pains, most of which you will try to ‘run through’. What you may not be aware of is the compensation patterns that start to form when you run through the pain. The consequences of these compensations will gradually sneak up to haunt you […]
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Current lifestyles have us sitting for the majority of our days. You sit at your desk all day at work, you sit in the car on the way home, and then sit and watch television at home. Sound familiar? Ironically, you are probably sitting while reading this blog right now. There is also a good
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So you recently suffered a minor sprain, scrape injury or underwent surgery. Your pain, however, is extremely intense and out of proportion to the injury. You may be suffering from Complex Regional Pain Syndrome (CRPS). Although this condition is not very common, when it does occur it can be very painful and disabling. It is
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Overuse injuries are common in runners and athletes, with a majority of injuries affecting the lower legs. One of these progressive injuries is called posterior tibial tendon dysfunction, or PTTD. If you noticed ankle/foot pain with activity, your foot is starting to appear flat, and your ankle rolls inward, PTTD might be the culprit. PTTD
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You may have heard the term Scoliosis used before, and you may even remember being screened for Scoliosis when you were in grade school. But what exactly is Scoliosis? Normally, your spine will be straight when viewed from the front or back. When viewed from the side, a normal spine will form an ‘S’ curve.
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Shoulder injuries are common in swimmers because upper body motion is used in swimming as the primary form of locomotion. A common shoulder injury seen in swimmers is called Swimmer’s Shoulder. Swimming itself requires a lot of shoulder range of motion (ROM) and flexibility. This is often associated with an undesirable increase in joint laxity
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Concussions seem to be the hot topic these days due to all the research that has come out as to how serious they actually are. In the past, people would quickly brush off a hit to the head and would have returned to their sport immediately. With all the studies that have been published, though,
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What is Osgood-Schlatter? Osgood-Schlatter is the name given to pain and swelling at the lower part of the knee that occurs in children and adolescents who are going through puberty (ages 10-15). Osgood-Schlatter also occurs most often in children who participate in sports that involve running, jumping and quick changes of direction. These sports often
Many people have heard of tennis elbow before, but do not realize that it can occur in people who don’t actually play tennis. Tennis elbow is medically referred to as lateral epicondylalgia, which describes pain on the outside aspect of the elbow joint. It has been reported that this injury has an annual incidence rate
Osteochondritis Dissecans is a condition that occurs in a joint, where a small segment of bone begins to separate from its surrounding region due to a lack of blood supply. As a result, the small piece of bone and the cartilage covering it begin to crack and loosen. Osteochondritis Dissecans occurs in children and adolescents,
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