December 2014

NASL  is about to begin and soccer fever has gripped Canadians. The FC Edmonton team has even gotten Albertans kicked about the new season! The explosive matches encourage a lot of people to take to the field themselves for a round of recreational sports. But you should also be aware that as the sport brings joy, it also brings pain in the form of injuries if proper precautions are not taken. Here is a quick list of most common injuries that might trouble your soccer dreams and prevention techniques to keep them at bay.1. ACL TearsThe Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL)

It is a common misconception amongst patients suffering from frozen shoulder, arthritis or rotator cuff tear that all of them are the same because of similar signs and symptoms. Yes, they all have shoulder pain and limited range of motion as common ground but the causes are very different. Shoulder stiffness is felt in all the three diseases but medically, all of them are recognised as separate diseases.Frozen ShoulderOur shoulder consists of a gleno-humeral (ball and socket) joint which has the head of our upper arm bone (humerus) fit perfectly into the socket of the shoulder blade (scapula). The stiffness

When you are involved in active sports injuries are bound to happen. Recovering from these injuries can be very exhausting if you don’t undergo the right treatment. Sports injury rehabilitation is a specialised approach dealing with sport related injury treatment. This specialised technique has benefitted many and is on the rise in the sporting world. Various procedures are adopted by sport therapists all around the world depending on the nature and degree of the injury.What is sports injury rehabilitation?Sport injury rehabilitation was developed to get injured sportsmen in pre-injury physical condition within a short span of time. This therapeutic multi-disciplinary

A general perception about injuries is that we get injured while performing strenuous exercises. What most people don’t know is that they can get injured even while performing regular tasks like working on their computer because of stress. Yes, in today’s times where every office-goer spends a large amount of their office hours before a computer, Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) has become common. Computer related RSI hugely affects your upper body parts such as elbow, wrist, forearm, hands, back, shoulders and neck. If not attended to, computer related RSI can develop into a major injury over the years.What is RSI?Performing

All of us have had the “my leg / hand has fallen asleep” experience. This “sleeping” experience mostly occurs if you cut off blood supply to a particular body part by applying pressure for a long time. That is the reason why you have numbness and tingling in your hand if you sleep on it for long. This numbness and tingling is absolutely normal and goes away within minutes, but if you have a similar experience at random, the reason could be a medical condition. Paresthesia, also known as numbness and tingling of the hands and legs, has multiple causes,