A new study out of the University of Wisconsin revealed that high school athletes who specialize in a single sport are more likely to suffer lower-extremity injuries than athletes who played multiple sports. For their study, researchers tracked more than 1,500 student athletes across 29 high schools in Wisconsin during the 2015-16 athletic year. To […]
Ankle Sprains Most Common Injury During High School Sports
Medical data suggests that ankle sprains are the most common single injury in high school sports, accounting for roughly one in six of all high school sports-related injuries. The data was collected through the National High School Sports-Related Injury Surveillance System, which revealed that sprained ankles accounted for 16 percent of all sports-related injuries across […]
ACP Issues New Gout Guidelines
The American College of Physicians has issued new guidelines for the treatment of gout. The new guidelines suggest that physicians should look to control gout with corticosteroids, nonsterodial anti-inflammatory drugs, or colchicine to treat patients with acute gout. “Physicians should consider using corticosteroids first in patients without contraindications because they are one of the most […]
Smartphones Inhibit Sleep For Teens and Children
As a society, we’ve become more attached to our smartphones over the last few years. Whether we’re checking them to send a work email, check sports scores or text a friend, we rarely go anywhere without our phones. That sentiment is even more true for children and teenagers. However, new research suggests that those same smartphones […]
Healthy Halloween Tips To Remember
Happy Halloween! A little later today your neighborhood will be bustling with children dressed as ghosts and goblins as they make their way from door to door stocking up on sweets. Whether you’re chaperoning a group of Trick or Treaters or heading over to a friend’s house to watch some cheesy horror films, there are […]
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