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Pain In The Back

Any movement, or series of movements, which places abnormal stress or abnormal loading on the spine can injure it. This may be a sudden overload, if, for instance, you overbalance while lifting a very heavy weight. Or it may be a cumulative overload, if y

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Pain In The Elbow

This is an overuse syndrome caused by continued stress on the grasping muscles and supination muscles, which originate on the lateral epicondyle of the elbow. First, there is pain in the extensor tendons when the wrist is extended against resistance. With

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Pain In The Groin

Groin pain may be caused by internal problems, for instance bladder or prostate problems. It may be referred from your back or hips, without necessarily causing symptoms in the joint which is the source of the pain. An inguinal hernia injury to an adducto

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Pain In The Neck

Your neck can move freely forwards, backwards and sideways. Twisting is the only limited movement in the neck (cervical) region, and this is compensated for by the freedom of rotation in the thoracic region immediately below. The necks forms the main supp

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Pain In The Shoulder

The rotator cuff (supraspinatus, infraspinatus, subscapularis, and teres minor) holds the humeral head tightly in the glenoid fossa of the scapula. Tearing and inflammation of the tendons of these muscles often occur in sports requiring the arm to be move

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Rehabilitation Principles of Sports Medicine

There is never any point in trying to exercise through, or 'run off', the pain of an injury. When you have pain relating to a particular movement or activity, continuing the activity only causes further harm to the damaged tissues. After doing any necessa

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Shin Splints

The anterior compartment muscles (tibialis anterior, extensor hallucis longus and extensor digitorum longus) hold the forefoot up during foot descent and contract eccentrically immediately after the heel strikes the ground. They are opposed by the much la

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Sprained Ankles

A slight strain in the ankle can be extremely painful, whereas more severe damage, such as bone fractures or ligament ruptures, may not be evident in the first instance. After an ankle injury, if there is any danger that the damage might be severe, you mu

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