The pain might make you hesitant to pull on the tendon, but the muscle can still do it: so the contraction will be strong-but-ouchy. Painless-but-weak is an even bigger diagnostic category, and I’ve included it here mainly to say what it does not indicate, rather than what it does...
Finally, quite a few of the past years have had the quiet undertone for me of trying to make a change of location (i.e. moving back to the USA for another science job). Repeated failures were not fun, as for anyone in the academic job rat race. That long felt like aforbidden, lon...
At that time I had 4 injections in the right adductor, 2 at the right hamstring attachment and one in the right piriformis. After severe pain for 3 months, I started to go out of pain the fourth month. Thinking that it may have been the PRP injections that relieved my pain, I ...
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I think one of the biggest modern causes of tendon pain is actually wearing high heels all the time. I know that occasionally older women need to have achilles tendon release surgery in order to make up for the tightening of their tendons. When you wear high heels it pushes the tendon ...
The adductors are fairly simple muscles that run from the underside of the pelvis to the inside of the thigh (femur). Above: the tensor fasciae latae (TFL; pretty sure of ID but going from memory) hip muscle of our specimen, cut open to show the short, angled fibres (each leading ...
Gait abnormalities caused by pain often result in an antalgic gait. In an antalgic gait, a person spends less time than normal in what is called the stance phase, the point between steps when both feet are on the ground. This allows the person to minimize the amount of pressure put on ...
and before you know it, you can feel the front quads working in overdrive and feel the burn in the thighs. You can start by doing your regular morning cardio backwards, but please, look over your shoulder from time to time to make sure you aren't running onto the road or into people...
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Glad to see a tinamou make an appearance. They get neglected too often in museums- uncommon and often seemingly unimpressive, but I’m a fan. I still do not understand hoatzins; the “cuckoo” gone cuckoo. Dodo parts (and Great Auk) near the entrance. Wow. What an oilbird taxidermy dis...