Back pain basics: 8 things everyone should know about back pain
Back pain is common, expensive, and it holds us back from living a full life — but the more we know about back pain, the more we can manage it.
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Keep your Achilles tendon from becoming your “Achilles heel”
Achilles tendon issues such as achilles tendonitis and tendonosis are very common injuries and setbacks of the lower body, especially amongst athletes. Learn how to take care of yours.
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What is pain, and why do we experience it?
Everyone experiences pain differently, from type to intensity to the area of your body it effects. But what is pain? And why do we have it at all?
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In the battle against pain, new research suggests an unlikely weapon.
Whether acute or chronic, your pain is real. But it’s also often more than just a physical sensation. The medical community, including your team of Orthology providers, has long looked at pain as a biopsychosocial condition—or one that impacts physical, psychological and sociological aspects of our lives all at once. So while we understand that
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Care Escalation: What you need, when you need it.
In the face of pain and injury, it can feel impossible to get the care you need. Orthology can help.
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Getting into running? Learn the key to staying injury free from the experts.
As common as running is, both novice and expert runners experience injuries that are entirely preventable. Learn how to stay injury-free when you hit the pavement.
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Is pain impacting your mental health?
Physical pain and mental health are more closely intertwined than you might think. Learn how treating both sides of the equation can help you feel better, faster.
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Hot and Cold: Understanding When to Use Ice vs. Heat
Temperature therapy—or therapeutic use of heat or cold—is often the first treatment we turn to when we experience pain or soreness in our day-to-day lives. And there’s good reason for it. Applying heat or ice is a cheap, easy and relatively safe self-treatment option. But do you know when you should use ice and when
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Avoiding Opioids for Back Pain
With a major settlement from three drug distributors and an opioid manufacturer reached just ahead of the first federal opioid trial this month, continued news coverage of opioid-related deaths, and new synthetic opioid drugs appearing across the country, opioids are still very much on the mind of may of us in the United States and
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Love Your Hands (You Only Have Two!)
In the online, internet-obsessed lives we lead today, having two pain-free hands at the ready is paramount. Our hands connect us to the world, provide the means for our sustenance and allow us to perform daily activities. And, as those activities revolve more and more around computers, tablets and smartphones, many of us find that
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