Blogs & News
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 MoreCheerleading and Injury Risk
The American Medical Association recently declared cheerleading a sport, saying that the rigors and risks led them to the decision.
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 MoreBCBSNC and OrthoCarolina Team Up to Reduce Cost and Improve Quality of Knee Replacement Surgeries
Starting March 1, Blue Cross and Blue Shield of North Carolina (BCBSNC) customers became eligible for a new bundled payment program for total knee replacement surgeries through an arrangement with OrthoCarolina.
Read MoreWhat it’s Like to be an Athletic Trainer to NASCAR Teams [Podcast]
Angela Sneed, ATC at OrthoCarolina, joins AT Podcast to talk motorsports and more
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 MoreDiscovery Place Education Studio, Charlotte NC
OrthoCarolina joined Discovery Place to celebrate the opening of the new Discovery Place Education Studio at a ceremonial ribbon cutting at Bank of America STEM Center for Career Development on May 29.
Read MoreResearch Update: Mastectomy and Upper Body Extremities
Mastectomy is a common treatment for women with breast cancer. Some patients that need a mastectomy also have to have other lymph node tissue removed from the axillary (armpit) region on the same side that the breast tissue was removed from.
Read MoreSee Kristan Run
Kristan Seaford miraculously survived severe complications from the flu, but the loss of blood flow during treatment resulted in the amputation of both hands, her left lower leg and a portion of her right foot...
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 MoreA Different Kind of Bodywork: How OrthoCarolina Works with NASCAR Teams
By the time “Drivers, start your engines!” roars above the din of an excited NASCAR crowd, the OrthoCarolina Motorsports team has been at work for many hours.
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