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  • Everything You Need to Know About Brachial Plexus Injuries

    Everything You Need to Know About Brachial Plexus Injuries
    Source:
    Healthline

    Your brachial plexus is a network of nerves in your shoulder that branches into five major nerves in each arm. It carries signals from your spinal cord to your arms and hands, allowing you to move your arm, hands, and wrists. Sensory skin nerves are also part of the brachial plexus and allow you to feel temperature and other sensations. There are several types of brachial plexus injuries, with many different causes. They also vary in severity, with some people healing completely on their own and others having permanent damage.

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  • Tennis Elbow: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment

    Tennis Elbow: Symptoms, Causes, and Treatment
    Source:
    Verywell Health

    Tennis elbow (lateral epicondylitis) is swelling, inflammation, and subsequent tearing of the tendons in your forearm.These tissues, which attach muscle to bone, can become overtaxed with repetitive use, causing an aching or burning pain that gets worse when you grip or lift something.

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  • What Is Haglund`s Deformity?

    What Is Haglund's Deformity?
    Source:
    Verywell Health

    Haglund's deformity is a bony bump where your Achilles tendon attaches at the back of your heel bone. Because of its prominence, the bump is subject to the effects of constant friction. This causes redness and irritation, and can cause skin thickening, pain, swelling, and increased skin lines.

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  • Marijuana Users More Prone to Infections After Knee, Shoulder Surgeries

    Marijuana Users More Prone to Infections After Knee, Shoulder Surgeries
    Source:
    HealthDay

    Surgeons have long advised patients to stop smoking cigarettes for several weeks before their operations to lower the risk of complications. But what about weed? New research has found reason for worry: Marijuana users had higher infection rates after minimally invasive knee and shoulder procedures. Patients also had higher rates of deep vein thrombosis (DVT) or potentially dangerous blood clots, though those risks were not statistically significant.

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  • A workout for cartilage implants

    A workout for cartilage implants
    Source:
    Medical Xpress

    Whether arising from being felled on the soccer pitch or a seemingly harmless collision with a coffee table, a minor injury to the cartilage in your knee can have major consequences. In the worst case, the weak spot gives rise to severe arthritis and an artificial knee is the only hope. However, if the problem is caught early, further deterioration could be prevented by a patch repair.

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  • Increased CXCL9 Level Linked to Increased Hip Fracture Risk in Men

    Increased CXCL9 Level Linked to Increased Hip Fracture Risk in Men
    Source:
    HealthDay

    The researchers found that in men, but not in women, increasing CXCL9 levels were associated with an increasing risk for hip fracture. The odds ratios in the highest quartile compared with the lowest quartile were 10.35 (95 percent confidence interval, 1.90 to 56.39) and 1.46 (95 percent confidence interval, 0.59 to 3.60) in men and women, respectively.

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  • Exercise can modify fat tissue in ways that improve health even without weight loss

    Exercise can modify fat tissue in ways that improve health even without weight loss
    Source:
    Medical Xpress

    Exercise is one of the first strategies used to treat obesity-related health problems like type 2 diabetes and other cardiovascular disease, but scientists don't understand exactly how it works to improve metabolic health. To that end, University of Michigan researchers examined the effects of three months of exercise on people with obesity, and found that exercise can favorably modify abdominal subcutaneous adipose tissue, the fat tissue just beneath the skin, in ways that can improve metabolic health—even without weight loss.

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  • Females more likely to develop adhesive capsulitis

    Females more likely to develop adhesive capsulitis
    Source:
    Orthopedics This Week

    Data showed that women develop adhesive capsulitis at a faster rate than men and that there are risk factors unique to women. Female athletes are also more likely to experience traumatic shoulder instability than male athletes.

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  • Overview of de Quervain`s Tenosynovitis

    Overview of de Quervain`s Tenosynovitis
    Source:
    Verywell Health

    De Quervain's tenosynovitis is a condition that causes pain associated with the movement of the thumb and wrist. The cause of the pain of de Quervain's is inflammation within a confined area around the base of the thumb.

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  • What to know about myofascial pain syndrome

    What to know about myofascial pain syndrome
    Source:
    Medical News Today

    Myofascial pain syndrome is a chronic condition that affects the musculoskeletal system, including the bones, tendons, cartilage, ligaments, and connective tissue. Myofascial pain syndrome typically causes pain and tenderness in a specific area, such as the neck and one shoulder.

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