Treatment and Prevention of Tennis Elbow
Tennis elbow is a painful medical condition due to overuse of the tendons in the elbow. Contrary to its name, tennis elbow does not happen to people who are active in playing tennis. Pain is usually...
View ArticleHairline Fractures and Their Causes
Hairline fractures, otherwise known as stress fractures are caused by repetitive forces acting on the bones usually in places such as the foot and lower limb. Due to an imbalance between the resorption...
View ArticlePrevention of Sports Injuries in Children
Keeping our kids safe and sound is the most important thing ever. However, we also need to help them realise their full potential in whatever they do and thus, we should not hinder them. As a result,...
View ArticleWhat Are Risks Of Delaying My Hip Replacement Surgery?
Your rights as a patient permit you to decide when to undergo your hip replacement surgery. Your doctor can only provide professional advices from their many years of experience. A high chance is that...
View ArticleSLAP Tears: Cause & Symptoms
A slap tear is an injury to the shoulder. SLAP stands for “superior labrum, anterior to posterior”. This means that the top portion of the labrum is injured from the front to the back. The labrum is a...
View ArticleHamstring Muscle Injuries: Cause & Treatments
Hamstring injuries are a common occurrence in athletes. They are usually known as “pulled hamstring”. Sports requiring frequent sprinting such as soccer, rugby and basketball poses a higher risk of a...
View ArticleBennett Fracture: Cause & Treatments
A Bennett fracture happens when the bone located at the base of the thumb dislocates and breaks. It can be due to a sudden trauma during high impact sports or accidents. A Bennett fracture will result...
View ArticleHome Treatments – Wrist Sprains
A sprain is the result of a ligament injury. Ligaments are thick connective tissues that connects our bones to the joint. In our wrist alone, there are as many as 15 different bones. As a result, a...
View ArticleLisfranc (Midfoot) Injury: Cause & Treatments
Lisfranc or midfoot injuries are often the results of broken bones in the midfoot or torn ligaments. Lisfranc injuries can vary from complex to simple depending on the number of joints and bones that...
View ArticleFloating Elbow: Symptoms & Treatment
Floating elbow is a medical term that was first introduced by Stanitski and Micheli to describe an injury in children that involves concomitant fractures of the forearm axis and supracondylar humerus...
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