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How to Know If You've Hyperextended Your Shoulder
A shoulder hyperextension is also known as a shoulder dislocation. When you hyperextend your shoulder, the upper arm bone -- or humerus -- has become dislocated from the ball-and-socket joint of the...
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What Are Locking Fingers?
Trigger finger, or locking fingers, is a condition characterized by a person's finger flexor tendon in the fingers or thumb catching, locking, or snapping into a bent position. When straightened, the...
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How to Cover Your Toes in a Walking Cast
Walking casts are often made of plaster or fiberglass, and are used to help protect your lower extremities, as they heal from fracture, injury or surgery. While a cast can get warm and be uncomfortable...
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What Are Positive Waddell Signs?
People who have been injured, particularly on the job, sometimes exaggerate or fake pain behaviors for financial incentive or to avoid work. It can be difficult to determine whether a patient's pain...
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What Are Canadian Crutches?
Like canes and walkers, crutches help persons who have limited mobility get around. Individuals with broken legs or muscular or neurological problems often rely on crutches for day-to-day activities....
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How to Get Rid of a Tingly Feeling in the Feet
People can get a tingling feeling in their feet for a number of reasons, including sitting in one spot for too long or muscle tightness following a heavy workout. While some causes are more serious and...
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Ways to Crack Your Knuckles
Knuckle cracking is satisfying and gratifying to those who enjoy it, and aggravating and disgusting to those who don't. If you're interested in being a creative knuckle cracker, you can learn multiple...
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What Are Spurs in the Foot?
A foot spur, also known as a heel spur, is a common condition which frequently occurs with age. A heel spur is often confused with a painful foot condition known as plantar fasciitis, but a heel spur...
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How to Cure Tightness in the Neck & Cheek
The muscles of the neck and face move the head up and down, side to side, rotate the head right and left, produce speech, and chew food. These muscles can tighten due to stress, poor posture, injury,...
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How to Disguise a Walking Boot
Walking boots are plastic, removal casts that can be used to protect your foot, ankle and lower leg as you recovery from an injury -- such as a fracture or sprain -- or from orthopedic surgery. Walking...
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What Is a Double-Jointed Arm?
When someone displays a unique and extraordinary dexterity and can extend his arms beyond the limits that most people can, he is labeled as double-jointed. But what does it mean to have a...
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Types of Pelvic Calcifications
Pelvic calcification occurs in both children and adults and is caused by a variety of factors. The proper treatment of this painful condition depends on the medical professional correctly identifying...
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What Is a Saddle Bone?
Saddle bone deformity begins with a distinct, often painful bump on the top of the foot. Known scientifically as metatarsal cuneiform exostosis, this disorder refers to an excess buildup of bone on the...
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What Is a Warm Compress?
A warm compress can be used to relieve many physical ailments, including stomach cramps or muscle pain. You can buy a warm compress, or heat pack, at a local pharmacy or home supply store, but you can...
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How to Cushion Crutches
A broken bone is painful, and recovery can be a tedious process if your crutches are not cushioned properly. The cushion padding should be thick enough to cushion contact between your underarms and the...
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How to Make Theraputty
Theraputty is a silicone putty used by occupational therapists to strengthen finger, hand and forearm muscles in patients. It is very similar in look and consistency to the children's putty. In fact, a...
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Difference Between Complete Rotator Cuff Tears & Full Thickness
The rotator cuff (RTC) is located in the shoulder and is comprised of four muscles: supraspinatus, infraspinatus, teres minor and subscapularis. These muscles function together to provide dynamic...
View ArticleAdjusting & Walking With an Aircast Boot Walker
The Aircast boot walker is designed for treatment of severe ankle sprains and foot fractures. It is also used in edema management and for post-operative treatment. One of the benefits of the Aircast...
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How to Recover From a Fulkerson Osteotomy
A Fulkerson osteotomy -- or patellar stabilization -- is often performed on patients who have experienced multiple knee dislocations. The procedure is minimally invasive and involves moving the bony...
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How to Reduce Limping When Walking
Limping can be caused by several different physical conditions, from a past injury or a congenital short femur preventing you from walking correctly. However, through several different methods,...
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Immobilization With Orthopedic Boot Instructions
Orthopedic boots may also be known as walking casts or walking boots. They are used in the treatment of injuries to the lower leg, foot and ankle. Orthopedic boots may be used to immobilize ankle...
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How to Treat Soreness From a Shot
Soreness from a shot can result from one of three causes; inflammation from the injected substance, minor tissue damage caused by insertion of the needle, or infection. While the first two will clear...
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What Is the Difference between Underpronation & Overpronation?
Pronation describes the way in which your foot moves as you walk or run. Generally, as you step down on your heel your foot rolls inward as you move forward; this helps your body absorb impact,...
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How to Tell if You Have a Bruised MCL
Your medial collateral ligament -- or MCL -- is located along the inside of your femur -- thigh bone. Your MCL runs down the side of your knee and connects to your tibia -- shin bone. Your MCL...
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The Best Way to Pad Crutches
Crutches are beneficial in the recovery of lower body injuries, but also have their downside. If you have ever used crutches, you are likely aware of the pain crutches can cause -- especially in your...
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What Are Plantar Flexion Contractures?
Plantar refers to the bottom of the foot. A plantar flexion contracture involves the foot, toes and ankle and prevents normal foot movement. A contracture occurs when the muscles, ligaments, tendons...
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How to Tape Hammer Toes
A hammer toe, usually the second toe, is curled or hooked due to an unnatural bend in the toe's second joint. It often results from wearing tight shoes, especially high heels. Wearing tight shoes...
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How to Sleep With a Medical Shoulder Sling On
Slings are used to immobilize the shoulder after injury or surgery. They're typically used short-term; however, after major surgery (a rotator-cuff repair, for example), a sling may be required for...
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What Is Plantar Calcaneal Enthesophyte?
Plantar is derived from the Latin word planta, which refers to the sole of the foot. Plantar ailments are painful because the sole bears the whole weight of the body while walking. Plantar calcaneal...
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How to Treat Pitcher's Elbow
Pitcher’s elbow, also known as medial epicondylitis, has many other names: golfer’s elbow, suitcase elbow, baseball elbow or forehand tennis elbow. Pain stems from the elbow down to the wrist on the...
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How to Measure a Leg Length Discrepancy
A leg length discrepancy is when your legs are different lengths. Many people have discrepancies of less than an inch, and these are so minor that they generally go unnoticed. However, there are...
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How to Start Walking After Cast Removal
The relief you feel after a cast is removed from your leg or foot can be quickly replaced by a feeling of unease about walking again. It is normal to experience pain, stiffness and swelling of the...
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Shoes That Best Fit Bone Spurs
A bone spur is a sign that the plantar fascia on the bottom of your foot is inflamed, and it may have partly torn from its origin at the heel bone. The bone spur, a bony outgrowth pointing toward your...
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How to Recover From an ACL & MCL
The anterior cruceate ligament (ACL) and medial collateral ligament (MCL) are found in the knee and join the thigh bone to the lower leg bone. According to ACL Recovery, over-extension of the knee,...
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Kidner Procedure Rehab Protocols
A Kidner procedure is surgery that is performed for an accessory navicular bone. The navicular bone is located in the arch of the foot and is attached to the posterior tibial tendon. This architecture...
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Deltoid Pain
The deltoid is the round shoulder muscle that attaches the collar bone and shoulder blade to the humerus bone in the arm. There are three parts to the deltoid — the anterior, middle and the posterior....
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How to Tape Turf Toe
Whether you have stubbed your toe or closed your foot in a car door, that excruciating pain does not compare to the pain that turf toe causes. Turf toe is a common injury among athletes and it can...
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How to Exercise With a Lumbar Fusion
The spine is made up of individual bones called vertebrae that are stacked on top of each other, with a disk between each one for cushioning. Movement occurs at each of the vertebrae to allow the back...
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How To Get Rid of Eyelash Mites
Eyelash mites are tiny parasites that live in the hair follicles of the eyelash roots. While according to Webster's Dictionary most people have mites naturally, some individuals have an allergy to...
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How to Tape for Trigger Finger
Trigger finger is a condition that affects the tendons in the hands. Often there is popping and pain at the finger joints. However, when the condition progresses and any tendon in the finger cannot...
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How to Use a CPM Machine
The continuous passive motion or CPM machine is used to provide constant motion of a particular body part that is stiff or in danger of losing range of motion. Your doctor may prescribe a CPM machine...
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How to: Cures for Numb Fingertips
Numbness in a body part is typically caused by a lack of circulation, which cuts off blood supply. The body part, such as your fingers, will then begin to tingle or go numb. This is your body warning...
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How to Splint the Trigger Finger
The trigger finger, also known as the index finger, needs immediate immobilization upon severe injuries such as a broken or fractured bone. Continued movement can worsen damage and increase recovery...
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Reasons for a Knee to Buckle
Bending, twisting, kneeling, running and even standing, knees absorb a lifetime of abuse. Repetitive use of the knee joint can cause inflammation and tenderness to the surrounding muscles, tendons and...
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How to Rebuild Arches in Flat Feet
Flat feet are structural and easily seen when you glance at the soles of your feet. If you have no visible foot arch, this may be hereditary or from wearing shoes that did not support the arches....
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The Proper Lifting Techniques for Assisting the Elderly
As you age muscles weaken and bones become brittle. This combination can make it difficult to complete daily activities like walking, sitting and getting out of bed. Older adults fear falling because a...
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How to Get Rid of Knock Knees
Knock knees is a condition where your knees appear to be at an inward angle in relation to your feet. This phenomenon occurs mostly in children under six, but they tend to grow out of it as their body...
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How to Treat Pelvic Hairline Fracture
A pelvic hairline fracture, sometimes referred to as a stress fracture, is a tiny break in an area of the pelvic bone caused by overuse, repetative motion or high impact exercise. This is especially...
View ArticleWhat Causes Knuckle Pain?
Knuckles are the joints that connect the fingers to the hands. They are necessary for fluid finger and hand movements. Common, everyday activities, such as holding a spoon, answering a phone or even...
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How to Use a Walking Cast
Walking casts come as both a shoe-like sole that is attached to a standard plaster or fiberglass cast, or as a brace that can be pumped full of air, which is also referred to as an air cast. Walking...
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