Foot
Assuming average life expectancy and reasonably good health, our feet will carry us around 120,000 kilometers in the course of our lives.
At this rate, it is no wonder that almost all of us will sooner or later experience foot pain. The most common causes of foot pain include: stress and strain, the wrong shoes, accidents, circulatory disorders, diabetes, and congenital misalignment.
In addition to foot pain, there are also the problems that can turn up elsewhere in the musculoskeletal system as a result of misalignment and faulty load management in the feet.
Knee
The knee joint is often - and rightly - referred to as the most complex joint in the body. The knee's ingenious biomechanical structure, consisting of the patella, meniscus, capsule, ligaments, muscles, and tendons, gives it a remarkable load-bearing capacity. With each step we take, the knee smartly distributes and absorbs compressive forces of around twice our body weight!
It is no wonder that the knee is also especially prone to injury and wear and tear.
Movement is Life!
Healthy knees have become even more important in a society that extols the virtues of participating in sports and remaining physically active well into old age.
Back
- Back Pain
- Herniated Disc
- Herniated Cervical Disc
- Herniated Disc
- Slipped disc symptoms
- Prolapse
- Spondylosis and Facet Joint Osteoarthritis
- Spinal Stenosis
- Vertebral Fracture
- Scoliosis
- Spondylolisthesis
- Headache
- Lumbar pain
- Thoracic pain
- Neck pain
- Whiplash syndrome
- Back pain
- Pain in the arms
- Lumbago
- Neck pain
Hand
No two hands are alike, not even our left hand and our right.
Children learn about the world around them by using their hands to "grasp" things. All of us come into contact with our environment via our hands - we grasp, pick up, touch and feel. Our brains and our hands have a very close relationship.
Many of the disorders that can affect the hand are so different in nature that they require special consideration in the context of a specialist medical field.
Rheumatism
Rheumatism may occur in many different ways - it is not a disease in itself. All "inexplicable" pains of the locomotor system, of the sinews, muscles, ligaments, joints or within connective tissue are attributed to rheumatism.
Ankle
The ankle is a complex joint that connects the foot to the lower leg. It is actually comprised of two joints: the true ankle joint (upper ankle joint) and the subtalar joint (lower ankle joint). With compressive forces in each ankle reaching 7 times our body weight while we do nothing more than walk, the ankle joint is required to withstand more stress than any other joint in the body. Our ankles enable bipedalisn (walking upright on two legs) and a normal gait. The upper ankle joint is comprised of 3 bones: the tibia, the fibula, and the talus. The upper ankle joint's range of motion is defined by the malleoli (the bony prominences on each side of the ankle) and the talus.
Hip
The following symptoms are signs of hip disorders:
Shoulder
An extraordinarily complex interplay of joints, tendons, muscles and ligaments gives the shoulder joint the greatest range of motion of all the joints in the human body. The soft tissues that surround the bony structures of the shoulder play a vital role in driving and harnessing the joint. An array of muscles, tendons and ligaments give the joint static and dynamic stability and permit it to execute powerful and precise movements.
Osteoarthritis
More than one hundred factors have been identified as contributing to the development of osteoarthritis, which is the most common form of arthritis.
Before the age of 45, osteoarthritis occurs more frequently men. After the age of 55, it occurs more frequently in women. Osteoarthritis most commonly affects the large weight-bearing joints, such as the hips and knees.
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