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The Least of Your Concerns: Arch Height, Weight, and Length
If you’ve ever been injured, you may have been advised by your physician or therapist that your condition was in some part due to a physical imbalance or attribute. How important are some of these physical characteristics, such as foot arch height, regarding the actual injury? Most are completely irrelevant, though so many want to
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Educate Yourself to Prevent and Recover from Any Injury
Nobody wants to be injured, and if you’re injured, you obviously want the injury gone as soon as possible. Properly treating an injury involves more than just looking at the symptom, which is usually where the pain is felt. You have to understand why you’re injured to properly assess, treat, and prevent that injury and
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Heart Damage: Five Ways to Prevent a Heart Injury and Reduce Your Chances of Dropping Dead
Damage to your heart is one injury you definitely don’t want; you might not live through it. As a conclusion to the several articles I have written discussing heart damage and exercise, including the article “Enough of the Aerobic and Endurance Bashing Fostered by ‘New Research’ and Personal Agendas,” I want to provide some ways
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Ankle Sprains, Pains, Instability, and Other Ligament Damage: Check Your Hormones
Whether you’re an avid runner or not, you’ve likely experienced an ankle problem at one point or another. Perhaps you twisted an ankle during a workout or simply stepped off a curb and “landed wrong.” Ankle sprains are very common injuries, especially if you venture off-road on treacherous trails for a hike or run. Ankle
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First Aid for Injuries Part IV—NSAIDs: Friend or Foe?
If you’re injured, do you take an anti-inflammatory medication, commonly known as NSAIDs? After all, as you learned in Part III of the Sock Doc First Aid for Injuries, some inflammation is necessary and normal when you’re injured. Inflammation is all about balance. If it’s out of control, then you have several aggravating factors (discussed
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First Aid for Injuries Part III—Inflammation: Embrace It and Control It
So you’re (still) injured, but now you hopefully understand why. As discussed in Part I of the Sock Doc First Aid for Injuries, if you didn’t have a traumatic accident, then your injury was slowly developing over time due to muscle imbalances resulting from too much stress in your life. Now, perhaps the injury is
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First Aid for Injuries Part II—Ice, Heat, or RICE?
Okay, you’re injured. Now what? Do you apply ice, heat, or “RICE” for injury treatment? In Part I of the Sock Doc First Aid for Injuries, you learned why injuries occur. Injuries don’t just come out of nowhere; they’re there for a reason, and typically from too much lifestyle stress. Here in Part II, you’ll
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First Aid for Injuries Part I—Sports Injury Causes: Understanding WHY You’re Injured
Sports injuries don’t just come out of nowhere, with the obvious exceptions of trauma and accidents.
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Sock Doc: Foot Pain and Foot Injuries—Natural Treatment and Prevention
Video Transcript Hey, this is Dr. Gangemi, and today’s Sock Doc video is going to be about the foot. I’m going to basically describe and talk about some easy treatment options that you can use for some common foot ailments that I haven’t discussed in other videos. And we’re going to talk about top of
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10 Reasons Why You’re Still Injured
10 Very Simple Reasons Why You’re Always Injured, or Soon Will Be, Yet Again
Sports Injury Prevention, Causes, & Treatment
These articles discuss sports injury prevention, treatment, and causes. Athletes typically develop injuries over time due to training at an intensity or duration beyond what their body can handle in a given period. Improper equipment such as poor footwear and orthotics can cause an injury too. Injuries occur from muscle imbalances which result from the body’s inability to handle these types of stress. Conventional therapies and sports injury treatments such as ice, heat, stretching, bracing, NSAIDs, and other drugs rarely benefit an athlete. Often these “go-to” therapies can actually hinder healing and result in increased injury rates. Sports injury prevention involves awareness of the proper training methods, diet, and footwear along with knowledge about muscle imbalances, hormonal imbalances, the impacts of stress, and related issues discussed in these articles. For injured athletes, there are a number of articles related to specific injuries that discuss healthy sports injury treatment methods for specific conditions.