What Is Outpatient Physical Therapy?
Outpatient physical therapy is physical therapy completed outside the home, which requires you traveling to and from a facility for your sessions. Outpatient physical therapy is what most people refer to or think of when they talk about physical therapy.
Preventing the long-term effects of traumatic brain injury
You’ve been in a car accident and sustained a head injury. You recovered, but years later you begin having difficulty sleeping. You also become very sensitive to noise and bright lights, and find it hard to carry out your daily activities, or perform well at your job. This is a common situation after a traumatic brain injury. A team of researchers led by Jeanne Paz and Stephanie Holden points to a potential new treatment that could prevent the long-term effects of traumatic brain injury.
Examining correlation between occupational noise, heart disease
Hearing conservation programs and policies aim to protect workers from noise-induced hearing loss, but it remains unclear whether stress reactions caused by noise exposure might also lead to other negative health outcomes. Researchers now describe how data from the Canadian Health Measures Survey do not support an association between loud noise exposure and changes in biomarkers for cardiovascular disease or outcomes
Night shift work is linked to increased risk of heart problems
Using data from over 283,600 people in UK Biobank, researchers have found that people who work night shifts are at increased risk of developing an irregular and often abnormally fast heart rhythm called atrial fibrillation, and they are also at an increased risk of heart disease. Women and people who don’t exercise regularly are most at risk.
Motor Vehicle Accident
A motor vehicle accident (MVA) can cause injury from the impact or from being thrown around inside the car. You may have a bruise on your abdomen, chest, or neck from the seatbelt. You may also have pain in your face, neck, or back. You may have pain in your knee, hip, or thigh if your body hits the dash or the steering wheel. Muscle pain is commonly worse 1 to 2 days after an MVA.