Health & Fitness Medical Reference
- Good to Great: Take Your Workout to the Next Level
Stuck in a fitness rut? Challenge yourself to kick things up, improve your health – and not overdo it.
- Rehab for Ligaments and Tendons
Find out what to expect from physical therapy if you have a sprain, strain, or tear to one of your ligaments or tendons.
- Back on Track: Fitness After an Injury
Coming back after an accident or injury? It’s time to start moving again. Get tips to get started safely.
- What to Know About Rest Day Workouts
What are rest day workouts? Learn more about these activities, why they’re important, and how to make them part of your fitness routine.
- Focus T25
Focus T25 is an intense DVD workout series from Shaun T, the trainer who created the Insanity video workout series.
- CrossFit
Everything you need to know about a CrossFit workout.
- Indoor Cycling
Everything you need to know about an indoor cycling workout.
- How to Boost Your Metabolism With Exercise
Want to boost your metabolism and lose weight? Here are two calorie-burning tips.
- What Should I Eat Before Working Out?
Take a tip from sports nutrition and try one of these 100-calorie to 300-calorie snacks before your next workout.
- 6 Myths About Exercise and Aging
Advice and inspiration about exercising when you’re over 65.
- How to Keep Healthy Habits in Mind
WebMD offers ideas for reminding yourself to stick to the healthy habits you've committed to.
- Which Fitness Tracker Should You Buy?
Which exercise tracker or device is best for you? Learn what the features are and which will best support your fitness goals.
- How to Use Tracking Apps to Improve Your Daily Life
What you can learn from super users of fitness, food, and sleep trackers to take your tracking to the next level.
- How to Exercise at Home
Want to exercise but have little time for the gym? Get inspired to work out in your home with these tips.
- S.M.A.R.T. Weight Loss & Your Fitness Device
How to set S.M.A.R.T. goals for fitness and health.
- Simple Fitness How-Tos
WebMD offers some simple exercises to get you fit.
- Blood Doping
WebMD explains blood doping -- an illicit method of boosting athletic performance that's especially used by cyclists -- including tests used to detect doping.
- Follow a Walking Plan
Do this beginner's 4-week walking program to help reduce pain and build strength. Start slow -- up to 10 minutes a day 3-4 times a week -- and build up. Check with your doctor first.
- Workout Injuries: Prevention and Treatment
WebMD explains how to prevent and treat exercise-related injuries like sprains, pulled muscles, and knee injuries.
- 10 Common Running Injuries: Prevention and Treatment
WebMD explains the causes, prevention, and treatment of common running injuries.
- Tommy John Surgery: What Is It?
Tommy John surgery, named for a baseball player, replaces an injured elbow ligament with a tendon taken from elsewhere in the patient's body.
- Posterior Cruciate Ligament Injury
WebMD explains the causes, symptoms, and treatment of an injury to the PCL - or posterior cruciate ligament - a knee ligament.
- 6 Exercises for Better Posture
If you have poor posture or back pain, there are some great exercises to help strengthen your core and improve your posture.
- Calf-Strengthening Exercises
Looking for ways to strengthen calf muscles? WebMD gives exercise tips for toning calves.
- What to Know About Standing to Burn Calories
When you stand, you burn more calories than sitting. Learn about the benefits, risks, and how you can burn more calories today.
- What to Know About Overtraining
Find out what you need to know about overtraining and how it can affect your physical and mental health, as well as how to prevent and recover from it.
- Differences Between BMR and RMR
Find out the differences between BMR and RMR, and discover their benefits and what they mean for health.
- What to Know About Weighing Yourself
Find out what you need to know about regular weigh-ins and the effect they can have on both your mental and physical health.
- How to Increase Your Blood Oxygen Level
Learn about your blood oxygen level, including what it is, how to increase it, and more.
- VO2 Max Testing: How Do You Measure and Improve Your Results?
Learn more about VO2 max, a fitness measurement based on the volume of oxygen used by your body during exercise.
- Lactic Acidosis and Exercise: What You Need to Know
Lactic acidosis occurs when lactic acid accumulates in the bloodstream. Learn more from WebMD about the symptoms, causes, and treatments for lactic acidosis.
- Human Growth Hormone (HGH)
WebMD explains the uses, risks, and side effects of human growth hormone.
- Heat Exhaustion
WebMD explains the symptoms and treatment of heat exhaustion, a heat-related illness that can develop after several days of exposure to high temperatures and inadequate or unbalanced replacement of fluids.
- Health Benefits of Basketball
Find out how you can get physical, mental, and emotional benefits from playing basketball. Also, learn tips to start playing basketball safely.
- Head Injury
WebMD discusses head injuries related to sports, how they are caused during physical activities, and which treatments can help.
- Ankle Injuries: Causes, Treatments, and Prevention
Everything you need to know to recover from -- and prevent -- ankle injuries.
- Turf Toe: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatments
WebMD describes what turf toe is, what causes turf toe, and how it's treated.
- Hamstring Strain
A hamstring strain can be very painful. Find out how they're caused, diagnosed, treated, and prevented.
- Groin Pull
WebMD explains groin pulls, the overstretching or tearing of the muscles in your groin. Learn about diagnosis, symptoms, treatment, and prevention of this sports-related injury.
- Wrist Sprain
WebMD explains wrist sprains, including their diagnosis, symptoms, and treatments.
- Shin Splints: Causes, Symptoms, and Treatment
Many athletes get painful shin splints -- also known as tibial stress syndrome -- at one time or another. Find out more from WebMD about the prevention, treatment, and symptoms of shin splints.
- Dislocated Shoulder and Separated Shoulder
WebMD explains the difference between a dislocated shoulder and a separated shoulder. Learn more about their symptoms, and how they are diagnosed and treated.
- Broken Collarbone (Clavicle)
The collarbone connects the breastbone and shoulder. A broken collarbone hurts and affects your upper-body movement. Learn about symptoms and treatments.
- Exercise & Fitness Resources
WebMD offers a handful of good resources for information about health and fitness.
- Ruptured Tendon
Information on tendon ruptures, a potentially serious problem that may result in excruciating pain and permanent disability if untreated.
- Mallet Finger
Commonly an athletic injury, mallet finger occurs when the outermost joint of the finger is injured.
- Ankle Fractures
Ankle injuries are among the most common of the bone and joint injuries
- Finger Dislocation
Finger dislocation is a common injury. It occurs when the bones of the finger are moved (dislocated) from their normal position.
- Repetitive Motion Injuries
WebMD explains various types of repetitive motion injuries, like tendinitis and bursitis.
- Muscle Strain
A muscle strain, muscle pull, or muscle tear implies damage to a muscle or its attaching tendons. Find out more.