Where Do You Go When You Have a Healthcare Need After Normal Office Hours?

It was a sudden trip to the closet of the towns urgent care facilities. But then again, most trips to urgent care facilities are sudden. You may wait two, three, or four hours before you go, but once you decide to make the trip it is often sudden. On this particular trip you were going in to the mobile health clinic because your daughter had some unusual swelling from what looks like a spider bite. Of course, your daughter did not show you the swelling until after dinner on a Monday night. With a house full of company expected at …

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How to Prevent Three of the Most Common Running Injuries

According to Running USA, nearly 16 million Americans are runners. Each year, these runners — people like you — compete in thousands of races, logging seemingly endless miles on the road in preparation. Just as with any vehicle, all of this wear and tear eventually takes its toll on our bodies, resulting in major and minor injuries. Urgent care services, with over 8,000 locations in the United States alone, commonly see many of these running injuries. As any of these urgent care facilities can tell you, many of the most common injuries runners experience can be avoided with proper amounts …

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