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As a teenager, there’s a lot of stress and pressure when it comes to school, sports, a social life, family life, etc. With all that going on, the last thing anybody wants to deal with is growing pains. The term “growing pains” is used a lot but there aren’t many painful conditions specifically caused by growth. What we are going to cover today is one of those conditions. Osgood-Schlatter disease is a condition that effects one or both knees in growing children and young adults. There are more than 200,000 cases reported every year. The primary age group effected by …

Has there ever been a time where you wanted to get a good workout in but didn’t have the time? Or the price of joining a gym was not in the budget? Can’t imagine leaving your kids in a gym while you tried to work out? Today we are going to go over an exercise routine that helps all those problems! I am going to go over 6 simple leg exercises that can be done in the comfort of your home and not take up an entire afternoon. Before getting into the exercises, I want to go over why we are …

To start off this Month for Moms we are going to discuss an issue that is very common in infants but can cause quite a scare if the parents don’t know what’s going on. The condition in question is infant torticollis. Despite the fancy name, it is a very simple condition. Infant torticollis can otherwise be known as “infant crooked neck syndrome”. What is happening in infant torticollis is severe contraction, or spasm, of the muscles on one side of the infant’s neck. The same thing can happen to adults as well. If you’ve ever woken up with severe neck stiffness and …