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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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How to Treat Forearm Fatigue From Using a Mouse
Computers are prevalent and people spend a lot of time typing and using a mouse. A computer mouse is operated by the flexor and extensor muscles in the forearm. Fatigue and pain are commonly caused by...
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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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What Are Diarthrotic Joints?
Diarthrotic joints are both the commonest and the most mobile joints in a skeleton. They consist of at least two bones that have cartilage covering the ends at the joint to reduce friction, ligaments...
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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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How to Test the Strength of a Jamar Grip in Position 2
Grip strength is important for many daily activities like eating, dressing, driving, lifting and carrying. It is often overlooked in strengthening programs until the weakness starts to interfere with...
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Homemade Assistive Devices
An assistive device allows someone to complete activities of daily living (ADLs) such as dressing and feeding with as much independence as possible. While there are many options available to purchase,...
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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 Are the Three Parts of a Finger Joint?
Each of the four fingers in a human hand has three joints. The hand contains 27 bones, eight of them in the wrist. The metacarpal bones, which make up the palm, include five bones. The five fingers and...
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How to Measure a Popliteal Angle
The popliteal angle is the angle between the thigh and calf, when the thigh is drawn up close to the body and the calf is pulled upward as far as is comfortable to the patient. The popliteal angle is...
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How to Prevent Cramping
Cramping is the sudden and involuntary contraction of one or more of your muscles. Muscle cramps -- particularly those in your legs -- are common during lengthy periods of strenuous exercise or when...
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How to Interpret the Harris HIP Scores
William Harris, an orthopedic physician in Massachusetts, developed the Harris HIP score to measure a patient's functioning after hip replacement surgery. The assessment provides a standard score used...
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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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