Fitness & Training
How Orthotics Can Help Your Feet
Faulty alignment in your feet can create havoc and pain in the entire body...
Read MoreToe Up, Toe Off: How Important is Footstrike in Running?
How the foot interacts with the ground while running is a topic of many running conversations...
Read MoreWhat We’re Doing in Physical Therapy – the McKenzie Method & Self-Treatment for Back Pain
Back pain can sometimes feel unbearable...
Read MoreWhat We’re Doing in Physical Therapy – Check out H-Wave ®
H-Wave stimulation is a drug-free form of electrical stimulation, or small muscle fiber stimulator, that treats chronic soft-tissue injury, improves lymphatic flow, and helps decrease acute, chronic and neuropathic pain
Read MoreThe “Real Core”: Yoga and the Psoas
Your core muscles are deep in your back and help stabilize and strengthen your spine.
Read MoreSmoldering Setback: A Firefighter’s Journey to Staying Healthy
For Matt Yost, being in shape isn't just part of his healthy lifestyle. His job and people’s lives depend on it.
Read MoreWhy I Used to Grunt When Putting on my Socks
Four years ago, I was not healthy. I was eating pizza and burgers 3-4 times a week and drinking too much beer and soda. Sure, we like to indulge sometimes, but I was not healthy. I peaked at 190 pounds, which is a lot for me, after a Christmas vacation with my buddies – and I felt depressed about my overall health.
Read MoreWhen Should I Change My Running Shoes?
We know, we know, running shoes aren’t cheap. But, as you use your shoes, mile after mile they eventually begin to lose their cushioning, stability, and shock absorption.
Read MoreCycling is a great sport, hands down. Even when you break one.
Up in the Appalachian Mountains, we love cycling. I ride with High Country Development, a group of cyclists all under the age of 25 who are full-time college students.
Read MoreDiane Had Knee Surgery. And Then Ran the Boston Marathon in 3:39.
At 49, Diane Lancaster’s health resume is already impressive. She’s a runner, fitness instructor, triathlete, former collegiate athlete and registered dietician. She had run 5 Boston Marathons and was preparing for her sixth in 2014.
Read MoreSpring into Baseball: Tips for a Successful Season
After a long and brutal winter, spring has finally sprung in the Carolinas. For many of us, that means one thing – BASEBALL!
Read MoreNoDa Run Club: How running and beer bring a community together
After thousands of miles and countless beers, NoDa Brewing Run Club has converted marathon runners into IPA fiends and craft beer snobs into PR machines.
Read More19 Running Injury-Prevention Tips from OrthoCarolina Experts
19 Running Injury-Prevention Tips from OrthoCarolina Experts
Read MoreOrthoCarolina Running Tips: Increasing Your Running Mileage Safely
When runners begin increasing their mileage, it is important to do so in a calculated manner to avoid overuse injuries.
Read MoreI'm New to Running. Where Do I Begin?
Whatever the reason, you've decided to take up running. Maybe you’d like to lose weight, or you’re working on strengthening your body to help with rehabilitation after an injury or a surgery...
Read MoreFunctional Movement and CrossFit
Functional movements sound complicated but they’re just natural, compound body movements that use multiple joints in your body.
Read MoreHigh-Intensity Exercise Part II: Some common injuries
High-intensity interval training is typically done at around 80-95% of your maximal aerobic capacity. It’s important to start slow and progress bit by bit when participating in HIIT training or any type of intense exercise.
Read MoreWatch What You Drink: How Healthy are Sports Drinks?
Whether you’re an athlete or not, are these drinks really a smart choice for our bodies?
Read MoreHigh-Intensity Exercise Part I: When it comes to exercise, can less actually be more?
You've likely heard of high-intensity interval training (HIIT), a type of workout that isn't totally new, but is increasingly popular and can be confusing because there are so many types.
Read MoreSo what exactly is CrossFit? I hear that quite a lot...
CrossFit seems to be everywhere yet still mystifies so many people.
Read MoreStretching - Too Much of a Good Thing?
Stretching does have some benefits in cases of a true flexibility deficit, but there are other ways to improve mobility and performance.
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