The sodium half of a sodium chloride molecule has a bad reputation in healthcare when we think of the amount of salt in a typical diet. True enough, in many ways it is detrimental to good health. We spend lots of time and money educating patients about… [Read More...
When I started as a sports medicine student in the late 1970s, rehabilitation after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction in the knee followed a much different prescription than it does today. Athletes who underwent this surgical procedure were immobilized in a fiberglass cast spanning from their groin to their toes. Twelve weeks later,…[Read More...
Blood pressure is a fundamental physiological measure of well-being. Its dual values represent the pressures in millimeters of mercury that the blood exerts against the walls of the arterial vasculature in contractile and refilling stages of the cardiac cycle. In order to obtain… [Read More...
Instability of a joint can be quite debilitating, particularly in the major joints of the lower extremity. Lateral ankle sprain and anterior cruciate ligament rupture have received an extraordinary amount of clinical and research attention over the past several decades because the former is the most common traumatic joint injury of all-time and… [Read More...
Doctors are often maligned—playfully or otherwise—about their stereotypical dreadful handwriting. Whether on a prescription slip, in a patient’s medical chart (though thankfully computer technology has positively impacted this particular problem), or anywhere else, “bird scratching” and other colorful… [Read More...
Pick an event: running marathon, 10K open water marathon (swimming), 50K cross-country (Nordic skiing), Paralympic powerlifting, Ironman Triathlon (running, swimming, cycling), or any other physiologically demanding sports event. The athletes push their physical limits beyond… [Read More...
Collagen. It’s the most plentiful protein in the human body. Skin, cartilage, muscles, tendons, ligaments, fascia, and other soft tissues would be nothing but soup without it. Oh, did I mention bone, too? That’s right, 10% of our skeletons are… [Read More...
Harmony is not…it cannot be…a state of same-old-same-old, carbon-copied, plain vanilla people residing in Dullsville. An orchestra composed of second clarinets all playing the same series of… [Read More...
My child, eat refined sugar, sweets, and high-fructose corn syrup, for they are good!” True enough if you care only about taste (and getting children to eat their food). However, anyone with a modicum of health knowledge—or who is trying to conscientiously monitor and moderate their intake of non-nutritive calories—recognizes… [Read More] ...
Rarely do injuries heal as quickly as patients would like them to heal, particularly for people who are accustomed to being active. Healthcare practitioners deliver their care with certain prescribed precautions intended to reduce… Read More...
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