Kinesio Taping for Tendonitis
If you’re tired of the unbearable pain that tendonitis brings despite shelling out big bucks on pointless therapies with no noticeable results, Kinesio Taping is just the solution for you. It is a major breakthrough in the world of physical therapy providing instant pain relief results. What is Kinesio Taping? It is a highly effective method of treating pain in muscles due to injuries or accidents, using specially formulated hypoallergenic cotton tape over the affected area for 3-5 days. It has many applications in a host of conditions due to its ability to stimulate the body’s natural healing processes. For more in
Physiotherapy Treatment for Athletic Pubalgia
Sports Hernia or Athletic Pubalgia is a condition in which the junction of the leg and the torso gets injured. It is very common in sports which place excessive stress on the groin and pelvic region through kicking and twisting movements. In some cases, Sports Hernia or Athletic Pubalgia is also known as the sportsman’s hernia, however, symptoms of such a hernia often result in misdiagnosis, as there is no presence of actual hernia. Athletic Pubalgia is more common in sports like tennis, hockey, football, soccer, distance running and rugby, which involve repeated turning and twisting. Causes and risk factors Sports Hernia or
What You Need to Know About Sports Injuries and Rehabilitation
If you’re an athlete, then injuries would be pretty common to you. Well, it’s obvious because sports injuries can happen anywhere in the body, and they don’t necessarily have to be related to bruises or swellings. Injury can be related to twisting of joints or any stiff blow to the muscles. Types of injuries are usually proportional to the type of sports activity an individual performs. Let’s take a look at the different regions of body which are most commonly affected during any sports activity: Wrists: The most common place for sprain of the ligaments, strains of the muscle, or fractures of the
Influence of Kinesiotherapy on Joint Motion
Even though there have been many recent advances in treating joint motion disabilities, few studies have evaluated longitudinal effect of therapeutic modalities on the functional exercise capacity of patients with joint motion disabilities. Aim: The purpose here is to investigate the effects of kinesiotherapy and electrotherapy on functional exercise capacity. Kinesiotherapy for Coxarthrosis: Patients suffering from primary coxarthrosis result from an imbalance between stress mechanisms exerted on the hip and the exercise resistance capacity of cartilage and bone tissue. Kinesiotherapy administered to patients contributed to the increase of the joint angle values at the level of the coxofemoral joint and muscle strength. There are
Physical Therapy for Slipped Disc in the Neck
The spinal column is made up of 26 bones (vertebrae), which are cushioned by disks. The disk protects the bones by absorbing the shocks from daily activities like walking, lifting and twisting. Each disk consists of two parts - a soft, gelatinous inner portion and a tough outer ring. Weakness or injury can cause the inner portion of the disk to protrude through the outer ring. This is known as a slipped disk or herniated disk. In herniated disk, a crack occurs in the outer layer of the disk, called the annulus. The crack usually affects a small part of the