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Death To Your Swing

03/04/12 11:42 am | Comments (0) | Posted By: SSI

As a golfer gets older and begins to lose flexibility, you can see it in their posture and swing.  Their posture becomes more stooped, their swing gets shorter and they lose distance on their drives.  If this is happening to you, you can try new technology or take a lesson to find some improvement, but those are only temporary fixes.  The truth ...

Does The New Year Have Your Head Spinning?

27/02/12 12:18 pm | Comments (0) | Posted By: SSI

Does The New Year Have Your Head Spinning? Have you started a New Year's Resolution to start exercising and now noticed feeling dizzy?  Dizziness is a feeling of lightheadedness or unsteadiness.   Dizziness can have many different causes including low blood pressure, dehydration, vision disturbances, or lack of bloodflow to the brain.   Verti...

Treating a sprain? It’s as easy as “RICE”!

14/02/12 11:00 am | Comments (0) | Posted By: SSI

Treating a sprain?  It's as easy as "RICE"! Whether you are a professional athlete, high school player, weekend warrior, or working on a New Year's resolution, you are likely to experience a sprain or strain in your efforts to improve.  When that happens, what you do next is easy as pie, or as we say in sport medicine, easy as "RICE". RICEThat...

Don’t Overlook Stretching!

08/02/12 11:20 am | Comments (0) | Posted By: SSI

How are you doing at keeping up with your New Year’s Resolution?

Stretch For FlexibilityA good exercise program incorporates stretching, strengthening, and aerobic conditioning.  Stretching is a very important part of exercising, but is often overlooked.  Many people either skip stretching completely, or only spend a couple of minutes stretching.  Ideally, everyone s...

Are New Year’s Resolutions Hurting Your Feet?

24/01/12 3:14 pm | Comments (0) | Posted By: SSI

Are New Year’s Resolutions Hurting Your Feet? You’re a few weeks into your New Year’s Resolution to walk or run, but you have noticed your feet have started to hurt.    Assuming it was because you were Plantar Fasciitis Anatomydoing something new, you keep going- 2012 is the year!   But now when you wake up in the morning and step on the floor you have sharp pain.  I...

New Year’s Resolution Pain

19/01/12 11:31 am | Comments (0) | Posted By: SSI

Don't Let Your New Year's Resolution Cause You Pain! New Year’s Resolutions can be thwarted for many reasons, but don’t let pain be one of them!   Common places for overuse injuries include the shoulder and the elbow.   Could one of these be one of your New Year’s pains? Shoulder pain: Shoulder- rotator cuffShoulder pain towards the front or outside of the sho...

Ho, Ho….OHHHH!!

16/12/11 1:33 pm | Comments (0) | Posted By: SSI

Ho, Ho....OHHH!   Protect your back this Christmas! Back pain during the holidays is enough to turn anybody into the Grinch.  It is estimated by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) that over 50,000 people each year sustain a grinchwinter and/or holiday related back injury.  This could range from shoveling snow, slipping on ice, and...

Why We’re Thankful For SSI

22/11/11 11:26 am | Comments (0) | Posted By: SSI

Why We're Thankful For SSI - From the Owners

I am thankful for SSI because it is a place where my family and I can work together along with great people and do great things for the folks who live in Greer.  We get an opportunity every day to touch hundreds of lives in a very positive way and leave each night knowing that we have served ou...

National Physical Therapy Month

01/10/11 1:39 pm | Comments (2) | Posted By: SSI

Physical Therapy Gets You Moving Now! Physical therapists are movement specialists! Whether you want to return to a sport or be able to play with your grandkids… physical therapy gets YOU MOVING! Hands on! Manual therapy is more than just massage and can be a very important part of your physical therapy treatment. SSI Physical Therapists a...

Healthy Taigating Recipes – Week 4

30/09/11 10:32 am | Comments (0) | Posted By: SSI

Healthy Taigating Recipes! Football season is here and along with it is tailgating! In celebration and to limit calories in the game day feast, SSI Health Club director, Alison Howard has found low calorie rcipes for your tailgating feast. Check back with us each week for the latest recipes! Did you miss the previous recipes? Week 1 - Chil...

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