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Injured and Angry… Can You Relate?
Whether you’re an athlete, an exercise fanatic or a casual gym-goer – your injury is a loss. Perhaps a loss of motion, a loss of time, or a loss of function. With all loss follows grief. Understanding your emotional path to recovery can help you physically get there faster. We’ve all heard of the 5…
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Your body’s “Check Engine” light. Ignore it and you’ll regret it.
It’s universal. That feeling in the pit of your stomach when that orange light pops up on your dashboard. It is a sign that something went wrong. Not knowing whether it’s a major problem or just the gas-cap, we all become very careful and tenuous drivers. Once this light is on our cars are programmed…
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Is Stress Slowing Down Your Recovery?
Recovering from an injury or physical ailment can be a huge source of stress. We often give in to the stress, dealing with the emotional and physical symptoms – the tension headaches, fatigue, mood swings… But, let’s take a look at how stress really effects our body. According to the American Psychological Association, stress has…
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Tart Cherry Juice
We have been promoting Tart Cherry Juice Concentrate to our patients for some time now. Here’s why: Anti-Inflammatory: Chronic inflammation is fairly common in our society of “no-pain, no-gain”. The degenerative and sensitizing effects of chronic inflammation are well documented, however, so are the serious side-effects of the drugs that treat it. There is a…