Arthritis is a joint disorder that involves inflammation of one or more joints. There are various forms including, amongst others, rheumatoid arthritis, septic arthritis and gout but osteoarthritis is the most common type. What is essential to note, is that other...
Bursitis is the swelling and inflammation of a small sac of synovial fluid. These sacs are found over bony prominences where a muscle (usually the muscle's tendon) could be at risk of high friction or damage. The resultant pain from the increased swelling and pressure...
DOMS is the commonly used abbreviation of ‘Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness’ and is the pain and stiffness felt in muscles a while after unusual or strenuous exercise. Felt most strongly from 24 to 72 hours after exercise, it is thought to be caused by lengthening or...
Widespread pain to the muscles of the body, unusually high levels of fatigue, tender points in multiple areas and great sensitivity to seemingly normal things, are all indicative of someone suffering from the disorder known as Fibromyalgia. What are the symptoms of...
Frozen shoulder is also known as adhesive capsulitis. The shoulder joint’s capsule becomes inflamed and stiff resulting in severe restrictions to movement and chronic pain. This is a very frustrating condition as there is no exact cause known, sudden movements can...
‘Ligament sprains’ and ‘Muscle strain’ are often confused and usually written about in tandem, however they are in fact quite different. Muscle and tendon (joining muscle to bone) strains occur when there is a poor level of fitness or poor dynamic control within the...
‘Muscle strains’ and ‘Ligament sprains’ and are often confused and usually written about in tandem, and although the rehabilitation principles are similar they are in fact quite different conditions. Ligaments join bone to bone and injuries occur when there is...
Musculoskeletal pain is pain caused by injury to the bones, joints, muscles, ligaments, tendons and/or nerves. The pain can be either acute or chronic and either localised or widespread. It is basically a summary of all the types of physical pain a person could suffer...
Also referred to as ‘Neck-Arm syndrome’, Neck-Arm pain encompasses a number of conditions that affect your neck or upper back, which include some arm symptoms. The most common form is the shoulder variety. Specific to problems that cause referred pain down the arm,...
Overuse injuries, as the term implies, are the result of the gradual, repetitive action and overuse of certain muscles, tendons or bones, as opposed to acute injuries, like a sprained ankle, which happen instantaneously. They can happen through sports, be work...
When a nerve becomes entrapped or ‘pinched’, usually because of injury to structures next to the nerve, this is referred to as a ‘Pinched nerve’, where nerve pain, damage and associated symptoms can occur. Self-diagnosed pinched nerves rarely need to be operated on...
Rotator cuff syndrome is a common shoulder injury. The Shoulder joint, an unstable ‘ball and socket’ type joint, is controlled by the Subscapularis, Suspraspinatus, Infraspinatus and Teres minor muscles, which form a cuff around the ball of the shoulder. They control...
Dislocation of the shoulder is a condition where the ball (head of the humerus) of the shoulder has come out of its socket (the glenoid of the shoulder blade). Because the shoulder is naturally an extremely mobile joint, it suffers from low stability and half of the...
Until we answer the question "What is causing my shoulder pain?", treating the pain will be a hit and miss and considering the number of conditions which may cause shoulder pain, more often than not, it will be a ‘miss’! We can make many (potentially incorrect)...
Tendinopathy encompasses tendon injuries and can develop in any tendon of the body. It includes Tendinosis and Tendonitis, which are different terms used for varying degrees of tendon injuries. Tendons are the tough fibres connecting muscles to bones. Tendon injuries...
“Not a serious accident” you think, but your body has been whipped back and forth in an unexpected, jarring motion and suddenly, sometimes unknowingly, you have become a victim of ‘Whiplash.’ Make no mistake, no accident or seemingly unimportant ‘bumper bashing’ is...