OrthoCarolina Resources

Elastic sports tape, often known as kinesiology tape, was first introduced to the US market in the 1990’s, quickly gaining a following among runners, volleyball competitors and football players. These days everyone from weekend warriors to Olympians athletes can be seen taping up.

Every day people injure the cartilage in their knees, shoulders and other joints.

Injuries to the face are common in soccer, most often occurring through direct impact with either a soccer ball or collision between players.

Drivers, pit crews, officials and admins will travel down to Daytona this weekend to compete in the first of many races in the NASCAR Sprint Cup, XFINITY and Camping World Truck Series.

Join OrthoCarolina as we broadcast live from inside the patient exam room on Thursday, October 8 through Periscope

April is National OT Month

In occupational therapy, we often work with prostheses, or artificial devices that replace a part of the human body that may have been lost due to trauma or accident, congenital conditions or other reasons.

Soft-tissue injuries sometimes happen gradually, such as overuse issues in athletes or people who do repetitive physical work

Fast fact: As of 2013 there were 3,000 published injury studies on football, 1,000 each on baseball and basketball, 140 on bowling, 43 on arm-wrestling and 7 on tug-of-war. NASCAR injury studies? There were 3.