Osteoporosis is a progressive disease causing weakening of the bones. If not identified and left untreated, it will get worse. Osteoporosis is more common in older females. This is because bone loss increases after menop…
The wrist joint is made up of eight small bones and the long bones of the forearm called the radius and the ulna. The majority of wrist fractures tend to occur in the distal part of the radius. The two most common types …
Pilates is named after its creator Joseph Pilates (1883-1967), who devised a set of exercises based around what we now call core stability. Joseph Pilates claimed that when practiced regularly and correctly, pilates exer…
Groin pain occurs mostly after injury to one of the adductor muscles. The groin musculature is complicated with highly stressed anchor points and involvement of the pelvis and lumbrosacral spine. Adductor muscles pull th…
Stress fractures are overuse injuries. They occur when muscles become fatigued. Fatigued muscles are unable to absorb the load and impact from running, which is therefore transferred to the bone, causing a fracture. Stre…
Chronic ankle instability describes repeated episodes of instability causing recurrent ankle sprains. Chronic instability develops sometimes after a single severe ankle sprain or more often after multiple less severe ank…
