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Are cortisone injections safe?
Posted December 11th, 2006 at 8:01 PM by Hariz Siddiqui
Section: Running & Training, Injury & Rehab, Health & Fitness, Injury & Rehab
Doctors often inject cortisone-type medications into painful damaged joints and tendons. Single injections can relieve pain and swelling and appear to be safe, but many studies show that repeated injections can damage joints and delay healing. Most doctors will recommend having no more than three injections into the same joint in a lifetime.
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What causes exercise-induced asthma? Can I compete in sports?
Posted November 23rd, 2006 at 7:00 AM by Jeanie Rebb
Section: Health & Fitness, Injury & Rehab, Exercise
People with asthma can usually compete in sports at a very high level when they know how to do it. All people who cough and wheeze when they exercise have asthma at other times also. Exercise-induced asthma means that you start to cough and wheeze 7 to 15 minutes after you start to exercise or immediately after you finish exercising. It’s not caused by exercise, it’s caused by breathing dry cold air. That’s why running is far more likely to cause an asthma attack than swimming. Read the rest of this entry »
Who had the more impressive Boston Marathon debut?
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On March 15, 2010
SDrunner said:
Great review, I wrote one on the Ironman Road Trainer HRM, which is similar to this one, without the...