Sprains and Strains Can Be a Pain – But Physical Therapy Can Help
Have You Recently Sustained a Sprain or Strain?
There you are, walking through the park on a bright summer day when suddenly you find a hole with your foot. Before you know it, you are in pain, collapsed in a crumpled heap, hoping no one saw your graceful fall.
What do you do? How do you know whether it is an injury that will go away on its own, and when should you call a physical therapist?
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It is no secret that there is an opioid crisis plaguing the nation. In fact, just within the year of 2016, opioid overdoses claimed the lives of 116 people each day. It is also estimated that about 11.5 million Americans misuse the pain-management drugs they’re prescribed, costing approximately $504 million in economic costs. Researchers have also determined that more and more people are being denied jobs due to a failure to pass opioid-free drug tests.
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Our topic for today is overtraining. A phenomenon that even I, a strength athlete and physical therapist, have experienced firsthand. Overtraining is an umbrella term that describes a variety of potential symptoms. However, each are the result of doing too much and overtaxing the body. In my case, I had forearm splints.
A quick aside for those who don’t know, forearm splints are akin to shin splints, except obviously at a different location.
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