We all see medial knee pain located just below the medial tibial plateau. It often results from running, or substitute work of hamstring but sometimes with jumping sports as well. these people are often diagnosed with an MCL type injury, but when you examine them further, they do not really fit into the diagnosis box […]
We have written assesment skill and treatment part of hamstring strain. Now we make you think even more deeply for hamstring strain. Generally, we treat hamstring strain with hamstring retraining. But, if hamstring strain has occurred due to overuse or repetitive stress of hamstring the treatment should be retraining of gluteus maximus, quadriceps, and hip […]
At the moment, one of these trends is to focus on ‘mobility’. For the purposes of this article, let’s think of mobility as simply ‘the ability to produce a desired movement’. Obviously, some degree of mobility is important to all of us, for everything we do. The real question is, how much is enough? Let’s […]
Click here to read our previous post on diagnosis and etiology Many treatments are offered to patients with painful tendons, but the scientific evidence for most of the conservative and surgical treatments remains sparse. Activity modification and counselling of patient is must. In acute condition patient may need rest but in chronic case patient may […]
Lumbo Pelvic Hip Complex Dysfunction (LPHCD) has been previously described as “lower crossed syndrome” or an “anterior pelvic tilt”. is likely similar to, or includes the dysfunction described as kyphotic lordotic-posture, sway back posture and is correlated with many low back and lumbosacral dysfunctions. LPHCD is limited to common impairments of the lumbar spine, sacroiliac […]
The Achilles tendon is the biggest and strongest tendon in the human body. The tendon has the capacity to resist large tensile forces. It stems from a distal confluence of the gastrocnemius and soleus muscle and inserts at the bottom of the calcaneus. It can be described as • Mid-point tendinopathy – injury at the […]
Kindly read previous blog to understand second one , The mighty psoas untold story The hip joint is a triaxial joint that allows motion in all three cardinal planes. Therefore we can examine the effect of the psoas major in each of the three cardinal planes. Further, we need to consider the open-chain motions of […]
The main complaint for this patient was shoulder and neck pain, with restricted range of movement of the shoulder joint. These issues about more than 5 yrs. No investigations had given them answers to resolving the issues. The pain started after long hours of desk-based work for several hours. The patient had no other medical […]
In case, if you have missed our previous post click here Part 1 Differential diagnosis: Hendrix et al (1998) found that all of their 51 patients with chronic plantar heel pain due to nerve entrapment showed the following symptoms (1) loss of plantar sensation, (2) a positive plantar flexion-inversion test, (3) a positive Tinel’s test […]
In this post, we have given the idea while assesing kinetic chain. There are some key features that you should keep in mind. Here we’ll look at the why and how we assess. Why do we assess? Establish a baseline/starting point Create realistic expectations Discover the specific GOALS and NEEDS of each patient […]