physical therapy

Addiction and Drug Use

For Chronic Pain Patients, Learning New Habits Beats Taking Opioids

Christine Herman

It took several months and a team of half a dozen doctors, nurses and therapists to help Kim Brown taper off the opioid painkillers she’d been on for two…
Medical Practice

St. Louis Hospital Ditches The Bed To Help Kids Recover Faster

Durrie Bouscaren

The opening bars of Whitney Houston’s “How Will I Know” echo through a bustling therapy gym as 13-year-old Courtney Turner practices her physical therapy…
Research

Study Identifies Best Way To Treat Neck Pain

A multicenter study of 169 men and women with a common form of neck pain suggests that both spinal steroid injections and conservative treatment with…
Community Rx (old)

Alleviating The Impact Of Traumatic Brain Injury With Yoga

There's no actual cure for a traumatic brain injury, but there are ways of alleviating the physical and emotional pain. Earlier this summer, Sound…

Sick Season 2

Incarcerated people are some of the sickest people in our country. Many have chronic conditions such as diabetes or lung disease. And they’re far more likely to suffer from mental illness and addiction. On Season 2 of Sick, listen to stories of what goes wrong in corrections facilities — places meant to keep people healthy, but built to punish them.

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