Getting Outdoors? Eight Unexpected Items Doctors Recommend You Take in Your Backpack Now is a great time to rekindle your love of the outdoors. In fact, record numbers of people flock every year into parks and wilderness to camp, hike, mountain bike or just be at peace. Just remember that when you are remote, your …
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Injured Outdoors or on a Rural Road? 911 may not be Able to Save You Each year record numbers of people are flocking into Oregon parks and wilderness to enjoy nature. While therapeutic, escaping the city can reduce access to life saving medicine, due to Oregon’s limited trauma and injury support system in rural areas. …
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Golf’s Most Common Injuries and How to Prevent Them One of my favorite ways to unwind is to play a round of golf. I love a challenge, and golf is always a challenge. Just ask Tiger. Yet, if you’re like me, you’re more at risk of throwing out your back swinging than getting a chance …
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Are Your Tech Habits Causing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome? In our technology-driven world, if we’re not texting on our smartphones, we’re typing on our laptops. We dash out a quick text – I’m here got us table in the back – or we start playing Candy Crush and time just slips away. We don’t realize that all …
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Ouch, That Hurts! Time to Decide How to Treat That Injury Visits to the emergency room can get expensive fast. As deductibles increase, the patient pays out more on those bills. (That’s one reason we founded Go To Ortho, the first immediate injury care clinic in the Portland area.) When you or your child is …
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How to Prevent and Treat Six Common Tennis Injuries Tennis is not only a fun, competitive sport that tests your physical strength and strategic skills, it has extensive health benefits: from improving muscle tone to lowering your resting heart rate. But like most sports, there’s a risk of injury. It’s not just elite international players …
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Yoga and Wrist Pain Yoga provides many benefits – it increases flexibility, tones muscles, builds strength and helps the worries of the day melt away. But like all physical activities, practicing yoga can accidentally lead to or worsen certain injuries, like wrist pain and carpal tunnel syndrome. How to Prevent Wrist Pain During Yoga One …
5 Ways Everyday Smartphone Habits Are Hurting Your Body This article was originally published on Brit + Co. on March 9, 2018. Written by Ashley Macey, freelance writer There are many careers that have obvious injury risks like loggers, fishers, and aircraft pilots. In fact, these roles are some of the most dangerous occupations in America. But if …
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Best Stretches and Rotator Cuff Exercises to Prevent Injury According to studies, almost everyone between the ages of 18 and 88 will experience some shoulder issues, including rotator cuff injuries. The tendons and four muscles that make up the rotator cuff provide stability and rotate the shoulder. Overusing the rotator cuff by pitching a baseball …
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Bike It All Year With Portland’s comparatively mild, rainy winters, even the most fair-weathered cyclist might consider cycling year round. Unless you want to arrive looking like a drowned cat, having the right rain gear and following rainy day safety tips will keep you dry and prevent accidents and injuries. The right rain gear is …
