Ice and Heat Packs
When you are injured or experience soreness or chronic pain, you may receive conflicting advice about what to do. Apply heat? Apply cold? Here’s an overview of how to use temperature in the healing process.
What steps you should take if you’ve been injured in a car wreck
Being injured in a car wreck can be a traumatic situation both physically and emotionally. Injuries ranging from lacerations, to concussion, to serious lower back issues that can last for years, cannot only make life difficult, but they can cause you to lose time at work.
What Is Outpatient Physical Therapy?
Outpatient physical therapy is physical therapy completed outside the home, which requires you traveling to and from a facility for your sessions. Outpatient physical therapy is what most people refer to or think of when they talk about physical therapy.
Preventing the long-term effects of traumatic brain injury
You’ve been in a car accident and sustained a head injury. You recovered, but years later you begin having difficulty sleeping. You also become very sensitive to noise and bright lights, and find it hard to carry out your daily activities, or perform well at your job. This is a common situation after a traumatic brain injury. A team of researchers led by Jeanne Paz and Stephanie Holden points to a potential new treatment that could prevent the long-term effects of traumatic brain injury.
Examining correlation between occupational noise, heart disease
Hearing conservation programs and policies aim to protect workers from noise-induced hearing loss, but it remains unclear whether stress reactions caused by noise exposure might also lead to other negative health outcomes. Researchers now describe how data from the Canadian Health Measures Survey do not support an association between loud noise exposure and changes in biomarkers for cardiovascular disease or outcomes