Author: Ginny Peterson
Preventing muscle cramps
Preventing muscle cramps is not easy. Your body contains more than 600 muscles. Some of these muscles…
Torn meniscus
A torn meniscus makes itself known in unusual ways. Has your knee “locked up”? Is your knee swollen and painful? Have you…
Treating trochanteric bursitis
Treating trochanteric bursitis focuses on reducing the inflammation and pain. Trochanteric bursitis is an inflammation of the bursa at the point where…
Meniscus tears
Meniscus tears are common injuries among athletes and aging adults. In your knee joint, between your shinbone (tibia) and your thighbone…
Trochanteric bursitis
Trochanteric bursitis is an inflammation of the bursa on the side of the hip. Your body contains hundreds of thin, slippery…
The ligamentum teres
The ligamentum teres has a very important job. It helps hold the head of the femur (thigh bone) in the hip…
Hamstring injuries
Hamstring injuries sideline many an athlete. The hamstrings are the big group of muscles and tendons in the back of the…
Should you repair or replace a fractured hip?
Repair or replace a fractured hip? Left to itself, a fractured hip, like most broken bones, will mend itself. The healing…