Few active people pay much attention to the key structural elements of the body, such as tendons, muscles, and joints – until something goes wrong. When you develop tennis elbow, either through a sport like tennis or through similar repetitive use or disease, your ability to take part in athletic activities and sports is severely […]
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5 Steps to Shoulder Pain Relief
If you watch the arm of a pitcher at a baseball game, you’ll witness how wonderfully the shoulder is made: strong, flexible, powerful. The shoulder joint comprises a team of bones, tendons, ligaments, and muscles to perform an incredibly wide range of motion at the arm. But this motion range and versatility comes at a […]
Is my job causing my hand pain?
Your hands are versatile enough to perform a variety of tasks, from gripping and lifting heavy weights to buttoning your clothes or threading a needle. But with 27 individual bones, 30 muscles and more than a dozen joints; plus a network of nerves, blood vessels and tendons, many things can go wrong. When it comes […]
Why Does my Thumb Twitch Sometimes?
Voluntary muscles get their name because normally we can control their actions. In contrast, involuntary muscles, such as the heart, beat to their own rhythm. The muscles in our hands and thumbs are voluntary muscles. Sometimes, though, our voluntary muscles seem to go rogue, twitching uncontrollably. There are a number of reasons your thumb might […]
