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Cheerleading Leads to Serious Injury
If you've seen Bring It On, then you know cheerleading is serious business. Gymnastic moves and daring lifts are just as important, if not more so, than the symbolic pom-poms. When it comes to serious injuries, cheering is number one and those feats of daring are to blame.
Save Your Breath: Explanatory Slings
If you're a weekend warrior or prone to injury, you might find these explanatory slings handy.
Having lived through a couple of different shoulder injuries, which both required sling time, explaining my situation became old, and fast. Unfortunately, these supports weren't around when I was injured, nor are they available now.
Have You Ever Had a Fitness-Related Injury?
Exercising is supposed to enhance our well-being, but sometimes if we overdo it or just have bad luck, we can get hurt while exercising. Many people hurt their knees from running, pull their hamstring in yoga, or injure their wrist playing tennis. So tell me .
Active Release Therapy Is ART
While I love a massage, I have found the relaxing strokes of Swedish massages just don't penetrate the deep kinks that accompany overuse injuries from serious training. That is why I appreciate the targeted technique of active release therapy (ART). It is like no other therapeutic technique I've tried when it comes to healing a chronic injury.
How to Avoid Sports Injuries
I think it is safe to say that no one enjoys being sidelined by an injury. If you have ever sat on the sidelines and watched your team play, you know how sitting out can hurt almost as much as the injury. On that sad note, here are a few ideas on how to avoid those sports related injuries that put you off your fitness track.
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Dealing with Winter Sports Injuries
No matter if you are new to snow boarding or an old pro at skiing, injuries happen. Here's a few guidelines for dealing with your twisted knee or a muscle strain from accidents on the mountain.
The best thing for an immediate injury is RICE (rest, ice, compression and elevation).
What was your most recent sports injury?
Unfortunately we all get sidelined from time to time. We trip. We fall.
Don't Run Yourself Into a Stress Fracture
Over training happens. You love what you do. You do it too much.
5 Ways to Prevent Summer Athletic Injuries
The summer brings a lot of us outside, getting involved in many activities and sports but before you go balls to the wall, consider these tips from Dr. William Levine, chief of sports medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center, on staying injury free this summer:
Hazardous Summertime Sports
Being physically active means sometimes accidentally hurting yourself. Forbes has ranked the top ten hazardous sports, based solely on the number of injuries reported from emergency rooms in 2006. Take this quiz and see which sports you might want to avoid if you are trying to stay in one piece.
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