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Most advice about pain online is vague enough to be useless, and you have probably read a lot of it. These are the explanations Dr. Heather Smith, PT, DPT, OCS gives her own patients in Cary, written out in full.

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October Is Bone and Joint Health Awareness Month — Here's What Active Adults Need to Know

October Is Bone and Joint Health Awareness Month — Here's What Active Adults Need to Know

Most people don't think about their bones until something goes wrong. A stress fracture. A broken wrist from a fall. A diagnosis of osteoporosis that...

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Prehab: What It Actually Means and Whether It Works

Prehab: What It Actually Means and Whether It Works

“Prehab” has become a popular word in fitness and sports medicine circles. Like a lot of popular words, it means different things to different people...

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Thoracic Outlet Syndrome: The Diagnosis That Explains a Lot of Unexplained Arm Symptoms

Thoracic Outlet Syndrome: The Diagnosis That Explains a Lot of Unexplained Arm Symptoms

Numbness and tingling in the arm. Weakness in the hand. A heavy, aching feeling in the shoulder that doesn’t behave like a typical shoulder problem....

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Tennis Elbow vs. Golfer’s Elbow: Same Mechanism, Different Side

Tennis Elbow vs. Golfer’s Elbow: Same Mechanism, Different Side

“Tennis elbow” and “golfer’s elbow” are two of the most recognizable injury names in sports medicine - and two of the most commonly confused with...

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Scar Tissue: What It Actually Is, What It Isn’t, and What PT Does About It

Scar Tissue: What It Actually Is, What It Isn’t, and What PT Does About It

“Scar tissue” gets blamed for a lot. Lingering pain after surgery. Stiffness that doesn’t resolve. A joint that never quite feels right again. For...

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Running After 50: What Changes, What Doesn’t, and How to Keep Going

Running After 50: What Changes, What Doesn’t, and How to Keep Going

There’s a story many runners tell themselves as they get older. Things start to hurt more. Recovery takes longer. Times slow down. And somewhere in...

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Physical Therapy During and After Cancer Treatment: What Most Patients Aren’t Told

Physical Therapy During and After Cancer Treatment: What Most Patients Aren’t Told

For most people, physical therapy isn’t the first thing that comes to mind when they think about cancer care. Surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation...

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Your Knee Hurts - But It Might Not Be What You Think

Your Knee Hurts - But It Might Not Be What You Think

Knee pain gets a lot of clinical attention, and the most common causes, such as patellofemoral pain syndrome, IT band syndrome, meniscal tears, and...

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How Hydration Affects Your Joints and Movement - Beyond the Generic Advice

How Hydration Affects Your Joints and Movement - Beyond the Generic Advice

“Drink more water” sits alongside “sleep more” and “stress less” in the category of health advice that is technically correct, universally given, and...

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Groin Pain in Athletes: Why It’s One of the Hardest Injuries to Diagnose

Groin Pain in Athletes: Why It’s One of the Hardest Injuries to Diagnose

Groin pain in athletes is among the most diagnostically challenging presentations in sports medicine. It’s an area where multiple structures sit in...

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Joint Pop

Joint Pop

Your knee clicks when you go up stairs. Your neck cracks when you turn your head. Your hip clunks every time you get out of a chair. You’ve probably...

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Hamstring

Hamstring

Not all hamstring pain is the same. This sounds obvious, but in practice, it matters enormously – because the two most common causes of hamstring...

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