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Are Topical Anti-Inflammatory Creams Worth the Rub?
Posted on: 22-Jun-2025
Chronic pain and inflammation can really take a toll on your physical and mental health. Oral nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) like ibuprofen (Motrin®, Advil®) can help reduce pain and inflammation. But they also carry certain risks for cardiovascular and kidney issues, stroke, bleeding and ulcers when you take them for extended periods of time. Fortunately, there are topical anti-inflammatory creams that offer the same amount of relief with significantly reduced risks.
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Steps for Treating a Deep Cut Finger
Posted on: 22-Jun-2025
Treating a deep cut on your finger may require medical help if there is damage to the skin, tendons, ligaments, or bone. Other minor injuries, like shallow paper cuts, can quickly be treated at home with basic first aid.
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SLAP Tear of the Shoulder
Posted on: 22-Jun-2025
A SLAP tear is an injury to the labrum, the cartilage rim that surrounds the socket of the shoulder joint. SLAP stands for "superior labrum anterior and posterior," meaning that the tear occurs at the front of the upper arm where the bicep tendon connects to the shoulder.
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Exercises and stretches for hip pain
Posted on: 22-Jun-2025
Hip pain can have a range of causes, from minor injury to chronic inflammation. In many cases, gently exercising and stretching the hips can help relieve pain and restore mobility.
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How Does Rheumatoid Arthritis Affect the Shoulders?
Posted on: 12-May-2025
Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is known for causing all-over inflammation and pain. It happens when the immune system malfunctions and attacks the synovium, the lining of the joints. RA can target the synovial lining of the shoulder joint.
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Anatomic TSA, RSA may yield similar outcomes for cuff intact glenohumeral OA
Posted on: 12-May-2025
Anatomic total shoulder arthroplasty and reverse shoulder arthroplasty may yield similar outcomes in patients with rotator cuff intact glenohumeral osteoarthritis, according to results presented here.
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Causes of Pain and Burning in the Achilles Tendon
Posted on: 12-May-2025
Injury to your Achilles tendon can cause pain, burning, redness, and swelling. The Achilles tendon is a thick tendon that attaches your calf muscles to your heel bone. It is crucial for walking, running, and jumping.
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5 Risks of Dupuytren's Contracture Treatment
Posted on: 12-May-2025
Dupuytren's contracture is a condition that causes tight tissue to form in the palm of the hand and fingers. Exactly why this condition occurs is a bit of a mystery, but there is a known genetic component and there have been other factors including lifestyle, activities, and other medical conditions that may also play a part.
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Alternative to hip replacement keeps aging athletes in the game
Posted on: 12-May-2025
For hardcore athletes and weekend warriors, a total hip replacement often limits participation in high-impact or intense physical activities.
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Physical Therapy Exercise Program After a Colles' Fracture
Posted on: 12-May-2025
If you have fallen onto an outstretched hand (or a FOOSH injury), then you may have suffered a Colles' fracture. A Colles' fracture a break in the radius bone of the forearm, very close to the wrist joint.
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16 Causes of Armpit Pain: When You Need to Worry
Posted on: 12-May-2025
Armpit pain can have many causes, ranging from injuries and irritants to infections that cause swollen lymph nodes. Less commonly, the pain—referred to as axillary pain—may be due to an autoimmune or arterial disease, nerve compression, and malignancies like breast cancer.
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What is an intercostal muscle strain?
Posted on: 12-May-2025
Intercostal muscle strain is an injury affecting the muscles between two or more ribs. Symptoms can include sharp, direct pain, stiffness, and mobility difficulties.
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Knee pain after running? Here's what to do about it
Posted on: 31-Mar-2025
If knee pain won’t stop bothering you on your runs, you may find some comfort in knowing you are not alone. The knee is one of the most common body parts to experience running-related injuries, research suggests.
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Free bone graft transfer may yield similar outcomes as Latarjet for shoulder instability
Posted on: 31-Mar-2025
According to published results, free bone graft transfer and the Latarjet procedure demonstrated clinically similar outcomes for patients with anterior shoulder instability and glenoid bone loss at 5 years. Results showed the techniques had similar rates of successful stabilization. However, neither technique prevented the progression of instability arthropathy.
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Physical Therapy for a Colles Fracture
Posted on: 31-Mar-2025
A Colles fracture is a break in one of the forearm bones near the wrist that commonly requires physical therapy after a period of immobilization. The exercises used in physical therapy are focused on restoring wrist flexion (bending the hand down at the wrist), wrist extension (bending the hand up at the wrist), and deviation (bending your hand side to side at the wrist).
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Surgeons demystify labral pathology in overhead athletes
Posted on: 31-Mar-2025
Since superior labrum lesions were first described in 1985 and the term “SLAP” lesion was coined in 1990, surgeons began to fixate on that region as a pain generator, especially in the overhead athlete population. In the wake of the burgeoning interest in superior labrum anterior-posterior (SLAP) lesions and the surrounding region, the SLAP repair emerged as the preeminent surgical treatment. Widespread overemphasis on SLAP repair diminished when surgeons learned more about the biomechanics of the throwing athlete’s shoulder.
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Q&A: How lunges, squats and holds can build stronger tendons and ligaments
Posted on: 31-Mar-2025
UC Davis Health molecular exercise physiologist Keith Baar specializes in sports medicine. He studies the effects of exercise on bone, muscle and tendon health. In this Q&A, he discusses how intensive exercising after injury or when overweight can cause damage to ligaments and tendons. He also talks about the importance of integrating isometric or static exercises into our fitness routines.
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UCL repair with internal bracing may yield faster return to sport vs. Tommy John surgery
Posted on: 31-Mar-2025
UCL repair with internal bracing yielded faster return to practice and faster return to competition vs. UCL reconstruction. Both UCL repair and reconstruction had high rates of return to sport.
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How do you treat rotator-cuff tears?
Posted on: 31-Mar-2025
Shoulder symptoms led to an average of 9.6 million physician visits in 2015 and 2016 in the United States. The most common cause of those shoulder symptoms? Rotator-cuff disorders. Nonoperative treatment, such as physical therapy, is the typical approach to treating rotator-cuff tears. However, surgery is considered in certain patients whose rotator-cuff tears don't resolve with nonoperative treatments.
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Understanding Tennis Elbow and Golfer’s Elbow
Posted on: 31-Mar-2025
With spring on its way, you may be pulling out your golf clubs or tennis racket. If you try to mimic the perfect swing of golf pros or tennis champs without taking into account the limitations of your own body, you may be setting yourself up for injury. It's important to be aware of two inflammatory conditions: tennis elbow and golf elbow. Despite their names, these conditions can be diagnosed in anyone who engages in constant arm movements. They develop slowly over time from overuse.
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