Do you feel pain in your knee while running or jumping? Do you find it hard to extend your knee? Does your knee pain worsen when you squat or walk downstairs? If so, you may have knee tendinitis – a sports injury that commonly affects elite athletes at the height of their game. Also known…
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Tips for Treatment of Bursitis in Knee
Knee bursitis is a painful condition in which a fluid-filled sac that cushions the knee joint becomes inflamed or irritated, leading to pain and swelling. Inflammation of the knee bursa can limit your daily activities and tasks, such as running, climbing stairs, and playing football and volleyball, that you usually perform with your knees. Redness,…
6 Types of Shoe Injuries to Avoid
Our shoes protect our feet from various things, such as bug bites, cuts, burns, and extreme temperatures. But if the shape of our shoes doesn’t accommodate the natural shape of our feet, they can do much more harm than good. Ill-fitting shoes, particularly those that you wear during physical activities like running, can contribute to…
What Causes Bursitis?
Bursitis is a painful joint condition in which the bursa (a small fluid-filled sac that cushions the area where bone would otherwise rub on muscles, skin, or tendon) gets irritated or inflamed due to overuse of the joint or excessive pressure on it. There are over 150 bursae in your body –most of them are…
What Causes Hand Discomfort?
Our hands are made up of many parts, like muscles, bones, tendons, ligaments, nerves, and other structures, which help our hands do a wide range of tasks – as big as holding a large object and as fine as typing. Problem or injury to any of these parts of the hand can cause hand discomfort…
4 Tips for Wrist Pain
Wrist pain or discomfort can keep you from doing things you want and need to do, such as typing, twisting a doorknob, high-fiving someone, or clapping. Acute wrist injury, arthritis, gout, and carpel tunnel syndrome are some of the many things that can cause wrist pain. Thankfully, you can ease your wrist pain by following…
Bursitis of Elbow – Treatment Option
Bursitis of the elbow, also known as olecranon bursitis, is a painful condition that can make it very hard for you to use your elbow like you usually can. In elbow bursitis, a fluid-filled saccushions your elbow joint gets irritated or inflamed. Inflammation of the olecranon (elbow) bursa can occur for many reasons, including repetitive…
Bursitis: Signs, Causes, and Treatments
Bursitis is the painful swelling of a small fluid-filled sac called the bursa, which is present in the joints. These fluid-filled sacs cushion the area where bone would otherwise rub on the tendon, muscles, or skin. There are more than 150 bursae present throughout the body, but inflammation mostly occurs in the bursae that are…
Cures for Bursitis in Knees
There are many possible causes for the pain and inflammation around the knee joint. One of those is knee bursitis – a condition in which the tiny, fluid-filled sac around the knee joint gets inflamed. Usually, knee bursitis occurs due to overuse or injury, but an infection in the knee may also result in knee…
5 Tips For Arthroscopic Knee Surgery
Arthroscopic knee surgery is a minimally invasive surgical procedure used to diagnose and treat problems with the knee joint. The most common reason for arthroscopic knee surgery is to repair a torn meniscus, but it can also be used to treat other conditions such as arthritis or ligament damage. Here are 5 tips for successful…