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The Ultimate Sprained Ankle Guide: Healing Fast and Strong

The Ultimate Sprained Ankle Guide: Healing Fast and Strong

Keywords to use (headings: Sprianed ankle, sprained ankle treatment, sprained ankle recovery time, sprained ankle exericses, sprained ankle healed fast

Treating a sprained ankle the RIGHT way early on, means a stronger ankle, faster recovery and less chance of re-injury. In this series, I will tell you what a sprained ankle involves, the most effective self-treatment and the best rehab…

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How to Beat Shoulder Bursitis: The Best Exercises

How to Beat Shoulder Bursitis: The Best Exercises

Shoulder Bursitis can be frustrating and painful. BUT, with the right shoulder exercises, you can get your shoulder 100%, without the need for cortisone injections or surgery.

In this post, we will outline:

What shoulder Bursitis is

What the causes are

Treatment options and their effectiveness

The best shoulder exercises to fix it

  What is Shoulder Bursitis

Shoulder bursitis is…

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Migraine & Headache Relief | Effective, Proven Self-Treatment

Migraine & Headache Relief | Effective, Proven Self-Treatment

Headaches and Migraines are not being treated the right way. If you are relying on medication, supplements or “posture correction”, you aren’t going to get any headache relief.

This post outlines what is really behind 80-90% of headaches and gives you the self-treatment that helps or cures 80% of neck-related headaches and migraines!

  Headaches have become a normal thing for people to have due…

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Three Ways to Help Hip Pain

Three Ways to Help Hip Pain

If you have suffered chronic hip pain before, you can probably attest to how uncomfortable and nerve-wracking it can be. Hip pain can turn the most simple and natural activities, like climbing a flight of stairs to your apartment or taking that evening stroll at the park, into completely horrible ordeals. This great guest post is here to help with that by giving you three great ways to help hip…

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Torn Ligament or Pulled Muscle? The Acute Injury Management Guide

Torn Ligament or Pulled Muscle? The Acute Injury Management Guide

If you have an injured ligament or pulled muscle or have ever been held back by a strain or a sprain – you NEED to know this. This is what can literally halve your recovery time.

Recommendations for acute injury management has changed over the last ten years and sometimes it can take a while for the latest updates to dribble down to everyone. So, in light of that, we thought we would give you a…

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The Sprained Ankle Recovery Guide - Free Amazon Download

The Sprained Ankle Recovery Guide – Free Amazon Download

We are very excited to release our new eBook this week and want to make it available for our loyal followers to download for. It is free just for three days after launch, so make sure you grab a sprained ankle recovery guide quick.

The Sprained Ankle Recovery Guide is a comprehensive compilation of our most popular past articles on ankle sprain rehab combined with recommendations from recent…

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Acupressure Mats: Fad or Effective?

We have a bit of a different blog post from us here. Instead of the usual effective rehab exercises and advice, we decided to take a close look at a product that is regularly used to ease pain and stress. Over the last 1-2 years Acupressure mats, often known as Shakti mats, have massively increased in popularity so we decided to find out whether it is all smart marketing or a great drug-free pain…

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Sciatica | Immediate Relief with Traction

Sciatica is one of the most painful, common and debilitating nerve pains there is. Luckily, an effective treatment method is right at your fingertips.

Half the patients we see in our clinic our back pain patients and sciatica is a common issue, causing a lot of pain and limitation.

But there is something else that we have noticed as well, often, a patient with sciatica has come in for a follow up…

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Effectively Prevent an Ankle Sprain

An ankle sprain is one of the most common injuries, making up a quarter of all sporting injuries. But luckily, whether in sports or just in everyday life, there are two fantastic ways that are scientifically proven to reduce ankle sprains and protect ankles.

Millions of ankle sprains worldwide

In the Netherlands alone, they see a massive 580 000 ankle sprains a year and the US it is estimated…

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Fasciitis Treatment: A Physios Guide to Fixing Heel Pain

Do your heels hurt from a lot of walking or running? Or have you been told that you have plantar fasciitis or a heel spur? Well, you are certainly not alone!

We have developed this comprehensive guide to give you the what, why and how to help fix plantar fasciitis.

What does the plantar fascia do

The plantar fascia is a strong band of connective tissue that starts at the bottom of your heel and…

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How to Prevent Ankle Sprains in Basketball | Infographic

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What is the most common lower limb injury? Ankle Sprains

What is the most common basketball injury? Ankle Sprains

With ankle sprains being as prevalent as they are, it’s handy for basketballers to know what helps and what hinders their continued playing. Luckily, there are some brilliant studies that have looked into just that and today we have summarised a large studyfrom the…

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The Top Sprained Ankle Treatment | Infographic

Because sprained ankles are so common, every second person you talk to will have a different opinion on what is best and what you should do. So, to help you out we looked at the best research and summarized what is REALLY the best sprained ankle treatment so that there is no room for confusion.

Here is our infographic summary:

Explanation:

As you can see, almost all research papers that this…

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McDavid Ankle Brace – Lace-up

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Do Ankle Braces Prevent a Sprained Ankle? | Research Round-up

Given the high frequency of ankle sprains in everyday life and dynamic sports such as basketball and volleyball, we decided to feature some summaries of research papers that show just how effective different sprained ankle treatments are.

Today we have a great infographic summarizing a systematic review (the highest level of evidence)  that helps answer the question of how to how well do ankle…

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Knee Cracking: Noisy Knees are No Worry

Knee Cracking: Noisy Knees are No Worry

Knee cracking, popping and creaking are very common complaints but are actually nothing to worry about. Today’s post is an explanation of what causes the cracking in your knees, why it is no issue and what you can do to help it if it still gives you or a family member the heebie-jeebies…

What causes knee cracking?

Firstly, in the majority of cases, the cracking IS NOT FROM ARTHRITIS.

The most…

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Yoga for Back Pain: The most effective Yoga Poses

Yoga for Back Pain: The most effective Yoga Poses

Many people will suffer from back pain in their lifetime. A recent studyfound that over 80% of Americans will have back pain at one time in their lives. The costs related to back pain amount to over $100 billion annually. This is due to a decrease in wages and the financial measure of productivity. Our spines and all the supporting factors (muscles, tendons) can only take so much abuse. Yoga for…

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Quadratus Lumborum - Why it hurts and How to fix it

Quadratus Lumborum – Why it hurts and How to fix it

The Quadratus Lumborum can cause some real grief through your back, buttock, hip, and groin but with the right management, exercises and self-treatment, you can be pain free – long term.

Where is quadratus lumborum pain felt?

You can see the pain referral patterns below for the deep (closer to the spine) and superficial fibers of the QL muscle. Referral from the quadratus lumborum can vary a lot…

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