IW was diagnosed with status post right thumb A1 pulley stenosing tendovaginotomy,10/12/2015, resolved and bilateral carpal tunnel syndrome, right greater than left.…
* Why: Degeneration of tendon of the extensor carpi radialis brevis, that occurs where tendon attaches to lateral epicondyle…
What is Tennis Elbow? Tennis elbow or also known as lateral epicondylitis is a very painful condition where the tendons are attached to the bone laterally of the elbow. The tendon is basically a fastener for the muscles to the bone. This is common in most adults whom play sport and young adults. It is an overuse injury in the lateral part of the elbow. It occurs at common extensor tendon that originates from the lateral epicondyle. It mostly is an acute pain that the patient usually feels when the arm is fully extended. The stresses from holding too large of a racquet grip or from repetitive gripping and grasping.…
Treatment for supraspinatus tendonitis involves three phases of physical therapy: the acute phase, recovery phase, and maintenance phase. During the acute phase, relieving pain and inflammation by resting and avoiding all activities that make the situation worst is important. At the same time, this is also the phase where you perform a range of motion exercises to strengthen your muscular function. An example of a range of motion exercise is pendulum exercises, which is where you lean over with your good arm supported by a table or chair, relaxing your painful arm by hanging it straight down then you slowly swing the arm that is hanging down. During the recovery phase, is when you work to regain your all your movements without any difficulty by performing active exercises such as pushups. During the maintenance phase, all you have to do is continue exercising and maintaining a strong muscular endurance so that supraspinatus tendonitis does not occur again. If physical therapy involving those three phrases does not work after three months, your doctor might offer to injection of steroids into your shoulder joint to help relieve inflammation. If steroids injection does not work either, arthroscopic surgery to repair your injury is recommended. Usually sixty to ninety percent of people who…
“Arthritis: Carpal Tunnel Syndrome.” WebMD. Ed. Marc C. Levesque, MD, PhD. 01 Feb. 2007. 24 Aug. 2009…
Tendon inflammation resulting from repetitive work, such as uninterrupted typing, can also cause carpal tunnel symptoms. Carpal tunnel syndrome from repetitive maneuvers has been referred to as one of the repetitive stress injuries. Some rare diseases can cause deposition of abnormal substances in and around the carpal tunnel, leading to nerve irritation. These diseases include amyloidosis, sarcoidosis,multiple myeloma, and…
The earlier the diagnosis, the better. If diagnosis goes unnoticed, athletes compensate for the pain by unknowingly altering the way they use their hands and wrist. For instance, a tennis player may hold the racquet a different way or change the rotating motions in their wrists to compensate for the discomfort they may be feeling. This unknowing change in hand and wrist use can lead to further problems in the arm and neck.…
Andrane’: First let’s discuss how arthritis affects the body and what each and every person can do to prevent this from happening. Arthritis is an autoimmune disease that causes chronic inflammation of the joints. The disease has unknown causes and does not have a cure, talk to…
Linguistic anthropology reveals that physicians have given the disease a number of different names in association with the effects of osteoarthritis. There are a number of names associated with osteoarthritis as it is also referred to as a “degenerative joint disease” or “wear-and-tear arthritis” (Creamer, 1997, pg. 4). The use of these terms in referral to the disease proves that the disease is wide-spread, otherwise the development of these terms in order to promote clear communication of the effects of the condition would not be needed.…
“Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about the bad break I got. Yet today I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth” (Speech 1). Lou Gehrig, went from being a big time baseball player to receiving ALS, he rose above it and became one of the most inspirational people in the world. Lou is also a very heroic figure because of his baseball career, being diagnosed with ALS, and his long lasting legacy.…
Left leg Gastrocnemius Recession. This procedure is to release a tight calf muscle that is pulling the heel upward. To improve ROM(Range Of Motion), the tendon connecting to the tight calf muscle will be cut, this will release the heel from the upward pull allowing the patient to stand with foot flat on ground.…
Coming up on the ASAA Track and Field championships, I developed achilles tendonitis which inevitably ruined my high school running career. I couldn’t believe that me of all people had gotten injured. I was very involved with injury prevention and performed strengthening exercises, stretches, made safe decisions, and had very a very healthy diet on a daily basis. Over the next eighteen months I visited over six different experts who claimed that they recognized my injury and knew how to treat it. After nearly three months without any noticeable improvement I began to conduct my own research and try to correct my problem myself. I developed a keen interest in the field of rehabilitation and the many mysteries that the body held. When the time…
Primary osteoarthritis is most likely related to aging. Repeatedly using the joint over the years damages the cartilage and leads to joint pain and swelling. Eventually the cartilage is lost and the cushion between the bones and joints is gone. This causes friction, leading to pain and limited joint mobility. Damage can also cause the bone to grow and create spurs around the joint. Osteoarthritis can primarily be found in the members of the same family ("Causes of osteoarthritis," 2013).…
Arthritis is a disease that in some way effects everyone. Whether you have arthritis or not, chances are, you know someone who does and can see the effect it has on them. There are some common misconceptions about arthritis, types of arthritis, and the causes. There are in fact some different types of the disease that most people don’t know about. Arthritis is a general term for approximately 100 diseases that produce either inflammation of connective tissues, particularly in joints, or non-inflammatory degeneration of these tissues. The word means "joint inflammation," but because other structures are also affected, the diseases are often called connective tissue diseases.…
The inflammatory myopathy that leads to chronic muscle and skin inflammation is called dermatomyositis. This is a progressive autoimmune disease of the connective tissues that causes muscle…