Tips to Keeping Your Bones Healthy
Bones do a lot for your body. While it’s important to build strong, healthy bones during your childhood and teen years, you can take steps to protect bone health when you’re an adult too.
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The Connection Between Your Posture & Physical Health
Posture is more than just standing tall; it refers to maintaining the correct alignment of your body parts. Learn ways to improve it.
The Strengths of Weight-Bearing Exercises
Weight-bearing exercises are exercises when your body fights against gravity to complete a movement. Learn how they can help overall strength.
Should You Use Ice or Heat for Joint Pain?
Article featured on UPMC Health Beat Whether arthritis or injury is causing your joint discomfort, you’ve probably received varying — and maybe even contradictory — advice on how to manage it at home. Hot and cold therapy are two of the most common treatments for joint relief; but when should each of them be used? […]
5 Tips to Prevent Overuse Injuries
Follow these tips to avoid overuse injuries to your muscles, tendons and bones so that you can remain in the game.
4 Ways to Prevent Osteoporosis
Osteoporosis, a serious condition that weakens and thins your bones, mainly affects older women. But there are key steps anyone can take to help prevent it—or lessen further bone loss if they already have the condition.
What Are ACL, MCL, and PCL Injuries?
Article featured on Seattle Children’s Hospital What are ACL, MCL and PCL injuries? ACL, MCL and PCL injuries are damage to ligaments that keep the knee from wobbling or giving out when you move. These ligaments are the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), medial collateral ligament (MCL) and posterior cruciate ligament (PCL). When the knee is […]
6 Common Myths and Misconceptions About Orthopedic Health
However, several myths and misconceptions surrounding this field can lead to misunderstandings and potentially harmful beliefs.
Essential Nutrients Your Body Needs for Building Bone
If you eat a healthy diet (with lots of fruits, vegetables, legumes, nuts, seeds, and lean proteins), you’ll get enough of most nutrients needed to keep your bones healthy and functioning well.
Signs, Treatment and Prevention of Tendonitis
Article featured on Brown Health University A tendon is a band of strong tissue that connects muscle to bone. It is an important part of the musculoskeletal system, which gives us the ability to move. What is tendonitis? Tendonitis is a general term referring to pain and weakness localized to tendons. In medicine, the suffix […]
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