Your ACL and MCL are ligaments located in your knee that connect your thigh bone (femur) to your shinbone (tibia). These ligaments keep your tibia in place and protect certain parts from tearing such as the menisci. Menisci work as a cushion for your joints to help keep them protected.
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Improving your diet with these vitamins decreases what is known as vitamin deficiency anemia. What is interesting is that vitamins don’t directly produce energy. Instead, the lack of these items in your diet can lead to fatigue. Simply keeping a healthy intake of vitamins and minerals will help your energy improve…
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If you are suffering from a mild discomfort, poor posture may make it worse. If you have a strained back, bad posture could further weaken and even break the muscle. The correct posture places pressure in the areas of the body designed to bear the load. By sitting the wrong way, you are placing weight on areas of your body that should not receive pressure. Incorrect sitting creates more maladies, putting other body parts at risk for injury.
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A muscle pull, also known as a muscle strain, is a stretching, tearing, or rupturing of muscle fibers. The tear occurs either in the middle of the muscle belly or in the tendon that connects the muscle to bone…
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The National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA) currently states that the benefit of stretching depends on the specific sport or activity being performed. For sports requiring increased range of motion, such as gymnastics or weightlifting, Static Stretching (touching your toes, holding the pose for a few seconds, etc.) has been shown by researchers to increase performance…
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We mistreat our spines. We slouch, we hunch, and we twist and turn in uncomfortable ways just to get comfortable in the short term. These short term alleviations create long-term problems for a body part that needs the best care it can get. Without setting long-term solutions, you will have issues the rest of your life…
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One of the most common causes of lower back pain we see in the clinic is actually degenerative disc disease. This is when the disc between the vertebrae end up degenerating and cause mechanical lower back pain. Therefore, you can have radicular pain, a shooting pain, down the back of the leg, weakness, dumbness, and…
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Natasha Hastings is a 2008 Olympic Gold Medalist with the Women’s 4×400 meter relay, as well as the Women’s 400-meter 2013 National Champion for the USA. She has been seeing Dr. Dan now for a little over a year. He’s helped in keeping her healthy. Natasha likes to be preemptive and come in before things…
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Jenna McCoy’s son, Kel, had ear infections from October 2012 to March 2013. That’s when she started bringing him in for chiropractic care. Doctors were going to place tubes inside of his ears, but he had six weeks in between his appointments for that procedure. Jenna started bringing Kel in twice a week and, when…
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Nichole Denby is a professional track & field athlete. She has been seeing the team at Absolute Life Wellness Center for about a year and has been a professional track & field athlete for ten years. She came back to Austin to train about a year ago and had some injury problems that has kept…
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