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Author: Ginny Peterson

Preventing muscle cramps

Preventing muscle cramps is not easy. Your body contains more than 600 muscles. Some of these muscles…

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Torn meniscus

A torn meniscus makes itself known in unusual ways. Has your knee “locked up”? Is your knee swollen and painful? Have you…

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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…

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Meniscus tears

Meniscus tears are common injuries among athletes and aging adults. In your knee joint, between your shinbone (tibia) and your thighbone…

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Trochanteric bursitis

Trochanteric bursitis is an inflammation of the bursa on the side of the hip. Your body contains hundreds of thin, slippery…

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The ligamentum teres

The ligamentum teres has a very important job. It helps hold the head of the femur (thigh bone) in the hip…

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Hamstring injuries

Hamstring injuries sideline many an athlete. The hamstrings are the big group of muscles and tendons in the back of the…

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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…

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