Knee popping and cracking are common symptoms often experienced by athletes or those who are very active physically. Many of us exert our knees when we are working out, training or even when we are just going about our daily activities like...
To take a quick look as to what brachial plexus is, it is defined as an assembly of nerve fibres (a plexus) coming from the spine (vertebrae), through the neck, the axilla (armpit region), and into the arm. The brachial plexus is accountable for...
Hamstring injuries are common among hurdle jumpers, sprinters, rugby and football players. That is because these people use the hamstring muscle more than ordinary people do. The hamstrings are a large group of muscles that stretch from the back...
A hematoma is a condition characterized by pooling of blood anywhere in the body. The most common hematoma is known as subdural hematoma, which occurs when the blood begins to pool on the brain’s surface. They are usually a result of...
Tendonitis is a systemic disease characterized by an irritation or an inflammation of your tendons, those fibrous and thick cords that attach bones and muscles. This condition, which creates tenderness and pain outside the joint, is most usually...
Myelopathy or spinal cord injury is characterized as a disturbance in your spinal cord, resulting to the loss of mobility and sensation. There are two main causes. One is trauma due to a fall, gunshots, war injuries, automobile accidents, and...
Exercise injuries occur quite commonly. But the good news is that most of these injuries are simple ones which heal quickly. There are certain steps that need to be taken for different exercise injuries and it is advisable to know what these are...
Fractures are a common feature among most people of the world. Fractures are nothing more than the bone breaking when the pressure exerted on the bone is stronger than the bone itself. An average person is known to suffer from two fractures in a...
The deltoid ligament sprain is when the deltoid ligament, which is on the inside of the ankle, ruptures or tears. These ligaments provide support to the ankles and prevent them from everting or the turning inwards. The deltoid ligament sprain is,...
Bones can be fractured and broken but not sprained and the collar bone is no exception. So when someone says their collar bone is sprained, it is not the bone that is sprained but the joint that has structural ligaments around it that may be...