What Is the Relationship Between Physical Exercise & Learning Ability?
The sedentary lifestyle that modern conveniences has engendered doesn't just threaten your health. It also jeopardizes your cognitive abilities. Your body was born for motion, and without regular...
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Types of Outdoor Exercises That Are Easy on the Knee
Exercising outdoors may positively influence all aspects of your health, including your physical, mental and emotional health. Active play in nature also helps you reconnect with your surroundings and...
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Routines for Muscle Stretching
Making efforts to maintain your flexibility will improve your mobility and decrease muscle-tightness pain issues. Flexibility refers to the degree of range of motion you have with your joints. When...
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How to Make Exercise Less Painful
The old adage says that with no pain, there's no gain. But the truth is that exercise shouldn't really hurt. While a little next-day soreness is OK, feeling sharp or achy pain when you're exercising...
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Preventing Achy Joints After a Workout
Achy joints are common and a normal part of the aging process. Although regular exercise can help keep your joints and the rest of your body healthy, many adults experience joint pain after a workout...
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The Best Yoga for the Sternocleidomastoid
The sternocleidomastoid is a muscle that extends from the back of the skull around the ear lobes down to the collar bone. The sternocleidomastoid engages every time you turn your head to the side, bend...
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Exercises That Are Good for Women's Hip Bone Health
It is never too soon to start thinking about your hip bone health. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention reports that falls are the leading cause of injury death in women ages 65 and older,...
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Exercises & Geriatric Rehabilitation
The natural progression of aging reduces strength, agility, flexibility and endurance. In fact, one in three adults aged 65 and older will endure a fall each year due to the decline in physical...
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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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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