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In my last column, I talked about cranial cruciate ligament injuries: what they are and how they happen. So, let’s say the worst has happened and your dog injures her CCL. Your veterinarian says ...
Objectives To assess the efficacy of exercise, orthoses and splinting on function, pain and quality of life (QoL) for the management of mid-portion and insertional Achilles tendinopathy, and to ...
(Do you really need 10,000 steps a day? Here’s what the science says.) Other supportive therapies include cranial sacral therapy, which involves gentle manipulation of the skull and spine—and ...
You know it when you feel it — that burning, achy, uncomfortable feeling on the bottoms of your feet that starts to ruin your run halfway through. I’ve been a runner for over a decade, so I ...
Background Ankle-foot orthosis (AFO) is the most frequently used type of orthosis in children with cerebral palsy (CP). AFOs are designed either to improve function or to prevent or treat muscle ...
When a patient with fibromyalgia is not responding to standard treatments, adding a noninvasive brain therapy might help them feel better. Repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) of ...
PLEASANTVILLE, Iowa — Zach Mecham has heard politicians demand that Medicaid recipients work or lose their benefits. He also has run into a jumble of Medicaid rules that effectively prevent many ...
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (WCJB) - Rebecca Danae is an author, amputee, and bone cancer survivor. “They took out 16 centimeters of my tibia and replaced it with a cadaver bone and metal and I kept that ...