If your employees are designated as “safety-sensitive” for the Department of Transportation (DOT) – meaning their job can impact both their own safety and the safety of the public – they are required to have a regular physical to be compliant and keep working. A DOT physical follows strict guidelines mandated […]
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Car accidents happen every day! This idea has been around for a long time: your emotional and physical health before you have experience a trauma like a car accident has a lot do with with how much pain you are going to have afterwards. And that idea part of a more general belief in the […]
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Can you tell me what’s the difference between disc herniation and disc protrusion? I saw two different surgeons for an opinion on what’s causing my back pain. One told me it is a disc herniation. The other said it was a disc protrusion. Are they the same thing or do I have two different problems? […]
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Keys to recognizing and recovering from whiplash. Each year, more than two million Americans experience whiplash. Also called a neck strain or sprain, it occurs when the head suddenly snaps forward, then backward — a whip-like motion that overstretches the joints, muscles and ligaments of the neck and upper back. Here are things you may […]
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Strength training programs had a positive effect on both acute and chronic injury rates in the time following. The authors noted that the impact of the training was dose-dependent, meaning that the higher the volume and/or intensity of the study, the better effect it had on minimizing injury risk. 4 views
