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  • Sports Camps Are MRSA Hot Spots
    As your child goes off to camp this summer, whether it be a sports- or old-fashioned general-interest camp, health experts say parents and kids need to be on the lookout for MRSA and other skin infections.  Because kids at camp live in close quarters where they tend to share athletic equipment, towels and clothing,  camps, especially sports camps, can be MRSA hot spots.
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  • How to Avoid Hyponatremia During Endurance Exercise

    Hyponatremia occurs where sodium levels in the blood become dangerously low due to excessive water consumption.  Blood sodium levels that drop too low can lead to seizures, coma, and even death.  To prevent hyponatremia usually occurs in endurance and ultra-endurance events follow these guidelines.

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  • Crashing A Bike: A Right Way and Wrong Way
    Your child's natural reaction in a bike crash is to holding her hand out to cushion her fall, but it's the exactly the wrong way to fall, says two-time Olympic track cyclist, Erin Mirabella.
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  • Stretching Exercises Maintain Shoulder Flexibility, Reduce Risk of Rotator Cuff, Other Injuries
    Stretching exercises maintains good shoulder flexibility and reduce the risk of rotator cuff and other injuries to baseball pitchers and other throwing athletes (football quarterbacks, javelin throwers), says physical therapist, Keith Cronin.  Without a stretching program, athletes tend to develop muscle imbalances over the course of a season. Some muscles become too tight, others too weak.  Stronger muscles end up overpowering good mechanics, exposing the athlete to increased risk of a shoulder injury.
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