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How to Shovel Snow Injury Free

Winter weather comes with the opportunity for a variety of fun activities. Hiking through your neighborhood, building snowmen, and snowball fights are all a great source of exercise and play. Then ...

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Help Relieve Joint Pain and Arthritis

The elbow and wrist are often the most impacted by the pain of arthritis and joint pain. The pain can affect your easiest day-to-day routines. Even the simplest tasks of opening doors or typing can...

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Proper Spine Alignment

Proper posture and spine alignment is important for your overall health. Knowing how to properly maintain a neutral spine position while you move, sit and stand can help you stay active and may eve...

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Just Keep Swimming…Swimming, Swimming

Ouch. If you’re a fitness junkie or a serious athlete, you’ve probably sustained some kind of workout injury. It could be any number of physical afflictions: shin splints, knee injuries, ankle spra...

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Helmet Safety and Traumatic Brain Injury

Let’s talk helmets.Any bicyclist or motorcyclist who does not wear a helmet is at an increased risk of head injury. Plenty of studies show that wearing helmets reduces the risk of traumatic brain i...

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How to Deal with Runner’s Knee

Runner’s knee is awful.Medically known as chondromalacia patella, runner’s knee is the cause of an unstable kneecap. This can occur from a fracture, a different injury to the kneecap/knee or simply...

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Ideal Ankle Supports Part 2

In previous posts we covered how to determine the proper fit of an ankle support and reviewed a couple specific styles here at Core Products. In this post we will feature another set of ankle brace...

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How to Pick Out an Ankle Support

Ankle supports are useful for more than just an ankle sprain and can actually help to treat a number of injuries or conditions. An ankle support can help basically any ankle injury or instability, ...

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Ideal Ankle Supports

In a previous post we covered how to determine the proper fit of an ankle support. In this one we will feature a few ankle supports you can use to treat injuries or even while playing sports as inj...

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5 Tips for Avoiding Runner’s Knee

If you’re a frequent runner, you’re most likely familiar with Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome (PFPS), or runner’s knee as we like to call it. The stress of running can cause major irritation where the...