Healthcare News
5 Symptoms of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome You Should Know
Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a condition that develops when the median nerve—a major nerve that controls movement and sensation in the hand and fingers—becomes compressed or pinched. Specifically, this nerve supplies sensations to your thumb, index, middle, and ring fingers. As a result, you can experience symptoms such as numbness, tingling, and pain in the hand and fingers.
What Causes Infraspinatus Pain and How Can You Treat It?
The infraspinatus muscle works alongside three other rotator cuff muscles to stabilize and move the shoulder. This triangular-shaped structure primarily externally rotates the arm. This means it rotates the arm toward the outside of the body. It also assists with moving the scapula (shoulder blade) when your shoulder joint is fixed (not moving). Occasionally, repetitive movements or other disorders can cause pain in this muscle.
Aerobic exercise found to be most effective for knee osteoarthritis
For patients with knee osteoarthritis, aerobic activities such as walking, cycling, or swimming are likely to be the best exercise for improving pain, function, gait performance, and quality of life, finds a study published by The BMJ today.
Q&A: How sports-related concussions affect reaction times
When playing sports, it's important to remember: Brains don't have seat belts. When rapid acceleration or deceleration of the brain inside the skull occurs with a blow to the head, a concussion happens, which in some cases can lead to lasting impacts on motor and cognitive skills needed to keep athletes at the top of their game.
How to protect young athletes from ACL tears, other knee injuries
The season ending knee injuries of top South Florida professional athletes Tyreek Hill and Alexander Barkov have many thinking about how to protect younger athletes from suffering similar ailments.
What Happens to Your Body When You Play Tennis Regularly
Research shows tennis may extend lifespan and improve heart health, bone strength, mobility, and social connection. While injuries, cost, and access can be drawbacks, experts agree that tennis provides broad health benefits.
Stem cell-based cartilage regeneration: Biological strategies, engineering innovations, and clinical translation
Articular cartilage damage caused by trauma or degenerative diseases such as osteoarthritis remains a major therapeutic challenge due to the tissue’s limited regenerative capacity. Traditional surgical interventions-including microfracture, autologous chondrocyte implantation, and osteochondral grafting-often result in the formation of biomechanically inferior fibrocartilage and fail to restore long-term joint function. In contrast, stem cell-based strategies have emerged as a promising approach for regenerating hyaline-like cartilage by combining the biological potential of mesenchymal stem cells and induced pluripotent stem cells with advances in tissue engineering.
Ethical and Regulatory Considerations Related to Regenerative Medicine
The application of stem cell therapies in orthopedics holds promise for the treatment of degenerative musculoskeletal conditions. Advances in cell sourcing, differentiation protocols, and delivery methods have brought the field closer to the point-of-care application of these therapies. Personalized strategies that can target individual cell deficiencies represent the future of orthopedic regenerative medicine, offering the potential for reversing established disease and increased functional outcomes.
What's Causing Your Inner Elbow Pain—and How To Treat It
Inner elbow pain pain often stems from overuse and repetitive stress. It can sometimes develop in response to injury or inflammation, such as medial epicondylitis (golfer's elbow) or arthritis.
What to know about deltoid pain
The deltoid is a large muscle responsible for lifting the arm and giving the shoulder its range of motion. Pain in this area may be due to issues like overuse or injury.
