injuries

Health & Wellness

Field guide to summer safety

Do you know what to do if someone's stung by a bee? What about a broken bone while camping? Don't hit the great outdoors without...

School Age Kids

How to prevent common childhood sports injuries

April is National Sports Safety Month — a time for parents and kids to become more aware of the risks associated with playing...

Exercise & Fitness

Work out wiser: How to avoid stress fractures

Heading to an exercise class? Don't ignore the importance of protecting your ankles and feet while doing so. Little things like a...

Children's Health

Overuse injuries in youth sports

The world of youth sports has become way more competitive in recent years. Many kids have played 10 years of competitive sports by...

Conditions

Cryotherapy: Healing sports injuries with ice

You whirl it into smoothies and use it to cool down drinks on a hot summer day, but did you know ice can also boost metabolism,...

Parenting Advice & Columns

Parenting Guru: How to prevent sports injuries

If you're thinking your children practice sports with a different intensity than you ever did as a kid, you're not alone. Young...

Self Improvement & Mental Health

Injuries happen: What you can learn from getting hurt

While I can’t say that I’m an adrenaline junkie, for whatever reason, being on vacation makes me want to experience adventure that I...

Child Development & Health

Your "accident-prone" child

When your child seems to get a lot of bumps and bruises -- more than what you think is typical -- your first instinct may be to...

Exercise & Fitness

Staying fit and trim after an injury

Alexandra "Ali" Fedotowsky, star of The Bachelorette Season 6 knew she'd have to make healthy exercise and eating choices after...

Wellness

Resiliency: Get skills to be happier and healthier

Lance Armstrong faced a devastating diagnosis that changed his life. He battled cancer and survived – and came back to cycling and...

Exercise & Fitness

Hot or Cold: Which treatment best for exercise injuries?

It's bad enough you tripped in front of that hot guy in aerobics class, but now you have a sore knee to show for it. What do you do?...

Exercise & Fitness

5 Exercise machines to avoid

Walk into various gyms around the country (perhaps even in your locale) and you face a sweat-inducing plethora of weight machines,...

Exercise & Fitness

Yoga injuries on the rise in women

Over the past few years at Hospital for Special Surgery, I’ve seen an increase in patients with hand or wrist pain brought on by...

Teen Health & Wellness

Is your adolescent accident-prone?

Every developmental issue, it seems, has multiple phases -- as parents, we seldom deal with any given issue just once. More...

Age by Age

The "bye-bye" syndrome epidemic

More than one child every week dies as a result of being struck by their own parents' car as they run outside to say goodbye. How...