Preventing and Treating Baseball Injuries for Spring and Summer Whether you play baseball after work just for fun, or you’ve got kids in the game, the ultimate way to prevent and treat baseball injuries is to stop. Not stop the game, mind you, but to stop and listen to the signs your body may be…
What You Can Do to Get Relief for Tennis Elbow While sports like tennis and even golf can cause tennis elbow, you can still get it even if you’ve never played either one. This injury occurs when the tendons of your forearm degenerate through repetitive motions. Certainly, you’ll be more prone to tennis elbow during…
Plantar Fasciitis: What You Can Do to Get Relief That chronic pain in the bottom of your foot or heel is known as plantar fasciitis. It’s a degenerative problem that affects the tissue joining your toes to your heel bone. Plantar fasciitis is common for runners as well as those with flat feet or the…
How to Rehab Your Hip and Get Back in Action If you’ve had an injury, suffer from arthritis joint pain, or hip surgery, exercises can help you get back to your daily activities. Being active means being healthy, but you can’t just dive right in full steam ahead. You need to build strength in the…
Simple Exercises for Seniors As we age, keeping healthy becomes even more important. You’ll want to eat right, get enough sleep, and of course, make sure you’re exercising. Moving your body can help you avoid mobility issues and help you enjoy life. It doesn’t matter if you’ve never been much for exercise…you can always start…
What to Do About Your Carpal Tunnel Problems Tingling and numbness in your hands or arms may indicate carpal tunnel syndrome. This occurs when you have a pinched nerve in your wrist, usually from daily activities. If you play instruments, have a manual labor job, or do a lot of typing on the computer, you’re…
The Anatomy of Walking and How Physiotherapy Can Help For any fitness level, walking provides excellent exercise. It’s a low-impact form of exercise that virtually anyone can do. Walking on a regular basis can help lower blood pressure, improve cholesterol and bone strength, and it helps keep you at a healthy weight. Walking uses many…
Winter Sports Injury Rehab: How to Prevent Injuries and Enjoy the Snow and Ice When snow blankets the ground, it’s an exciting time for winter sports. However, it’s also the busiest time of year for hospitals tending to injuries. If you want to avoid an injury that keeps you confined indoors for the rest of…
Get Ready for Snow Skiing with These Tips to Avoid Injuries There’s nothing like the rush of skiing down a snowy mountain. But with this winter sport comes the potential for major injuries. Beginners and experts alike are all prone to trouble on the slopes. It’s common to put your arms out to break a…
Best Ways to Protect Yourself from Hockey Injuries It’s almost all contact, which is why the sport of ice hockey tends to come with a higher chance for injuries. Colliding with other players, the puck, the stick, and the boards can result in everything from sprained ankles and dislocated shoulders to muscle pulls and hip…
