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Pain In The Neck

by WRNW What isn’t, right?! This is likely especially true if you spend ample amounts of time at a computer or workstation. Posture is a practice and worth your time, plus your neck will thank you! You have one body in this lifetime, and as an industrial athlete you have

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Eat To Hydrate

by Steven Limbrunner, ATC If you’re like me, staying hydrated can be a boring and repetitive process. The constant need to drink some high-quality H2O feels like maintenance work for our bodies. Trips to the water cooler. Trips to the bathroom. Repeat. What if I told you… there are more

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Snack Right – Is Snacking Good or Bad?

by Finessa Rassel, ATC New year, new me. Many people approach the new year with this mentality, and running with this frame of thought commonly motivates resolutions that include diet changes. This time of year especially, snacking gets a bad rap and may seem like a contradictory practice on a

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The Best of 2022

by WRNW With a new year in sight, it’s time to reflect on things past and those that are to come in 2023! To do that, we take you back to Work Right’s most popular topics from the past year. Which were your favorites? As you read or re-read (click

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Surviving Christmas Vacation

by Omar Fercha, LAT, ATC The holidays are a magical time of year. Great food, joy, and cheer spread across the world. A World Cup was finally played this time of year for real sports. There are so many things to celebrate this season! All the more reason to prioritize

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Step It Up

by Miranda Zamora-Williams, MS, ATC Did you know even a short walk can have major benefits for your health? With busy holiday schedules, big celebrations, and even bigger meals seemingly every weekend to close out the year, walking after meals can be an excellent way to fit in frequent low-intensity exercise.

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No Shave and a Haircut

by Trevor Addison, ATC In honor of No Shave November, let’s talk a bit about men’s health. The original idea of the event was to grow out some facial hair and donate the money you normally would spend on shaving (or a haircut if you can’t grow a beard) to

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Sugarcoated: The Candy Man Edition

by WRNW The onslaught of Halloween trick or treaters is over! Now, the candy hoarding begins. Whether your household knows the Switch Witch or if you levy a parent tax on any new candies brought into your home on Halloween night, it stands to reason there is a newly piled

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Smoking and Injury Risk

by WRNW Smoking is not good for us. This should come as no surprise. Science has taught us many things about smoking tobacco, none of which are beneficial to our health. In fact, tobacco use is the single largest preventable cause of disease and premature death in the United States.

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Rabbit Season! Duck Season! Oh, Deer…

by Omar Fercha, ATC Be vewy, vewy, quiet.. It’s hunting season. **insert Elmer Fudd laughing here** Fall is the air. Leaves are changing color to earthier rust, ochre, and sienna colors. Offset against the changing landscape, you’ll find random splashes of bright orange. These are humans. Actual humans wandering the

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The Cost of Injury: The Foot

by WRNW   It’s a literal pain to get back on your feet after a foot injury. In fact, the foot is one of the top five body parts attributing to work days lost. In continuation of our Cost of Injury* series, let’s dive deeper in the cost of foot

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Pick Your Brain: Concussion Safety

by Savannah Peters, ATC Concussions are a type of Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) caused by a fall, bump or blow to the head or body that causes the head and brain to move rapidly back and forth. A concussion can cause a temporary loss of consciousness, but not always. If

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