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.

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...

“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...

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....

“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...

“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...

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...

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

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

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

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

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...

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