6 Ways to Prevent Spring Sports Injuries
Ah, the sugary smell of springtime is in the air. It’s that time of year where baseball season starts, school is soon to be out for summer—-and more people are destined to hurt themselves while engaging in more sports activities now that the weather is so nice. Physical therapists gear up for the seasonal spring sports industries that soon will come pouring in like April showers. Firstly, there’s three main reasons...
Why Girls with Autism are Less Likely to be Diagnosed than Boys
Studies suggest that gender plays a huge role in how autism symptoms appear. It seems that only until recently, females with Autism were more likely to be undiagnosed than males because of the differences in behavior. Traditionally, autism has been more of a “male problem” considering that four times as many boys are diagnosed than their female counterparts. According to Thomas Frazier of the Center for Autism at the...
5 Easy Ways Travel Therapists Avoid Loneliness
Having a career in travel therapy is undoubtedly exciting. Getting to travel, meet new people, work in facilities where you gain tons of experience, and receiving top benefits are great and everything—but, there’s still a level of loneliness that comes to staff that are new to a city and new to a workplace environment. In fact, some studies show that lonely people are more likely to have early death than others. Being away...
Yoga Has Become the Most Popular Natural Therapy
Holistic medicine and remedies are everywhere you look these days. There’s always a new world fad in natural health and natural forms of therapy. However, despite the countless ways to practice more organic types of therapy, there’s one that is just outshining the rest—yoga. Yoga has seen the biggest growth in popularity out of any other form of natural therapy. In fact, the National Center for Complementary and...
Inactivity More Deadly than Obesity?
Which is worse: an overweight person who lives an active lifestyle—-or a fit-looking person who is a total couch potato? That’s what some researchers sought to find out across 8 European countries. Cracking this code may very well be the first step we can take to establish clearer connections between abdominal obesity, lack of movement, and overall health. So let’s separate the fat from fiction… The American...