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Can You Improve Your Balance by Walking?

Can You Improve Your Balance by Walking? Balance is a critical part of our daily life. But it’s definitely something we often take for granted—until we lose it. Good balance plays an integral role in everything from simple tasks such as walking and standing to more complex activities like playing soccer and lifting weights. It’s the invisible...

Simple ankle exercises to prevent injury

Posted in Bone Health, DOC Updates, Foot & Ankle, Treatments.

Simple ankle exercises to prevent injury A handful of simple ankle exercises may prevent injury Easy ways to prevent an ankle injury More than 20,000 ankle injuries occur every day in the United States, the majority of them caused by falls, twists or bad landings. If you’ve ever had one yourself, you know how bad they can hurt and how long those...

The Truth About Scoliosis

Posted in Bone Health, DOC Updates, Uncategorized.

While scoliosis – a “C” or “S” shaped curvature of the spine – is most often associated with adolescents, based on the assumption that scoliosis stops progressing when growth stops in late adolescence, many adults also experience scoliosis as a result of spinal changes as ligaments weaken or vertebrae deteriorate with age. In fact, at least 60% of...

Ways to Keep Your Joints Safe in Winter

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Winter months bring cold weather, along with more frequent joint aches and pains. It’s not just your imagination, either. Cold weather actually thickens synovial fluid – the fluid that cushions your joints – and when its consistency thickens, joints can become stiff and achy. A drop in barometric pressure frequently accompanies cold weather, too,...

Hiking Injuries to Watch Out For

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Hiking is one of those autumn activities that can be fun and engaging for people of any age or ability. With trails designed to accommodate the newest novice or the most experienced trekker, it’s relatively easy to select a trail that’s the right distance and difficulty to match your skills and experience. But no matter how well you choose your trail,...

Osteoporosis Month: Everything You Need to Know

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Osteoporosis Month: Everything You Need to Know May is Osteoporosis Awareness Month, which makes this a good time for a quick reminder about what osteoporosis is, what it can do, and who is at risk. It can be tempting to consider osteoporosis a women’s disease, one that specifically targets those who’ve been through menopause or are small-framed....

Spotlight on DOC Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine’s Bone Health Clinic

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Spotlight on DOC Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine’s Bone Health Clinic The professionals at DOC Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine are dedicated to the treatment of bone injuries, and they also work to help patients avoid those injuries through treatment plans that include exercise, physical therapy and overall bone health. “We started the bone health...

Nutrition and Bone Health: What you eat and drink matters

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Nutrition and Bone Health: What you eat and drink matters Most of us have been told from an early age to “drink milk for strong bones.” Turns out, that’s actually true… at least in part. Calcium plays an important role in supporting bone health, and most Americans get the majority of their calcium from dairy products including milk, cheese, and yogurt. While...

Winter Bone Health

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Winter Bone Health Winter in the deep South doesn’t bring quite the same ferocity it does up north, but that doesn’t mean it doesn’t bring inconveniences of its own. While we might not have ice and snow on a regular basis, we still have plenty of cold and damp to make winter occasionally uncomfortable and sometimes even treacherous. Even the youngest...

Achieving orthopaedic health in 2022

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Achieving orthopaedic health in 2022 Year after year, the most common new year’s resolutions involve improving overall health and exercising more. Both are worthwhile aspirations, but for some people, arthritis or other orthopaedic issues can make them a bit challenging… but not impossible. By refining your resolution to focus on your orthopaedic...

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Can You Improve Your Balance by Walking?

Simple ankle exercises to prevent injury

The Truth About Scoliosis

Ways to Keep Your Joints Safe in Winter

Hiking Injuries to Watch Out For

Osteoporosis Month: Everything You Need to Know

Spotlight on DOC Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine’s Bone Health Clinic

Nutrition and Bone Health: What you eat and drink matters

Winter Bone Health

Achieving orthopaedic health in 2022

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