Five common football injuries(3) 3. Ankle Sprain The ankle joint consists of the tibia, fibula, calcaneus and talus with three lateral ligaments which help stabilize the joint. Usually, players stepping on the uneven ground and landing on opponents’ foot will result in excessive stretch of the ligament leading to ligament sprain. Ligament sprains are categorized [...]
Five common football injuries(2) 2. The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is a soft tissue that connects the femur and tibia to provide the stability control of the knee joint during walking, running and jumping. During the game, footballers often have acceleration in change of direction, landing and knee contact [...]
Troubling tingling fingers Ms.M, aged 40, consulted for right shoulder stretching and dull pain, and for recent 2 months she had tingling feeling over right thumb and index finger especially after working. After clinical examination, neck seems not clinically related to her hand symptoms. Wrist examination revealed wrist/hand border had significant soreness and compression over [...]
Five common football injuries During football games, players will need to sprint, dribble and experience a lot of physically contact with the opponents. They are prone to lower extremity injuries which includes muscle strain, ligament sprain and cartilage tear. Proper physiotherapy and rehabilitation exercises are crucial in preventing recurrent injuries. In the following articles, 5 [...]
Sciatica? Who is the culprit? Sciatica, a pain syndrome notorious for its disabling pain and symptoms, is not only always caused by irritation of sciatic nerve, but also the nerve’s origin (L4-S3 nerve roots). That’s why sciatica seems always related to low back pain and we may naturally attribute it to back problem e.g. prolapsed [...]
TMJ Everyday when you talk or eat, you will open and close your mouth over a thousand times, so do your temporomandibular joint (TMJ), which is the joint connecting jawbone and skull. When there is problem over TMJ, it causes symptoms that can be disabling, and it can be confused for where to seek for [...]
Simple tests for common pain conditions for office workers Due to the advance of technology, computer works become an essential part of our daily work. With the increase usage of keyboard and mouse, different kind of pain especially involving upper limbs become more and more common. It is vital important is we could detect minor [...]
The correct posture during sitting Office workers uses computer for long period of time. It is not uncommon for them to have neck and back pain. A poor sitting posture may account to it and maintaining a correct sitting posture is of vital important for its prevention. The correct sitting posture is as follows [...]
