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  • Boost Your Mobility With These Gait Training Exercises

    Gait training exercises are movements designed to help improve strength, balance and coordination when walking. They may be part of a physical therapy program for a person recovering from a stroke, an injury, or surgery, as well as those dealing with a chronic condition that affects their ability to walk.

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  • Understanding Tennis Elbow and Golfer’s Elbow

    With spring on its way, you may be pulling out your golf clubs or tennis racket. If you try to mimic the perfect swing of golf pros or tennis champs without taking into account the limitations of your own body, you may be setting yourself up for injury. It's important to be aware of two inflammatory conditions: tennis elbow and golf elbow. Despite their names, these conditions can be diagnosed in anyone who engages in constant arm movements. They develop slowly over time from overuse.

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  • ACL Tear and MCL Tear: Key Differences and Treatment Options for Individual and Combined Injuries

    The ACL is in the middle of the knee joint and is an intra-articular ligament. This is important to understand because, in general, extra-articular ligaments (MCL) can heal sometimes on their own without surgery, while intra-articular ligaments (ACL) cannot.

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  • Researchers develop new test for early osteoarthritis diagnosis

    Diagnosing osteoarthritis often occurs in the late stages when cartilage degradation is severe, making it difficult to distinguish it from other types of arthritis and to determine the best treatment plan. In work published in the Journal of Orthopaedic Research, investigators have developed and tested a new diagnostic test that uses two markers found in the synovial fluid of patients' joints.

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  • Healthy lifestyle changes shown to help low back pain

    A study has found that integrating lifestyle support into chronic back pain treatment helps reduce disability and improves quality of life.

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