Achilles tendon rupture

Do you have a pain in your heel? One of the most common causes of heel pain having plantar fasciitis. This involves a pain and inflammation in the plantar fascia, which is a long, thin ligament that connects the heel to the front of your foot. The word plantar means sole of the heel, and fasciitis means inflammation of the fascia of a muscle or organ, so the name plantar fasciitis explains the disorder. Plantar fasciitis can be caused by many different factors like age, obesity, certain…

are: Grade 1, Grade 2, Grade 3. A Grade 1 strain is a slight tear of the muscle, Grade 2 strain is a slightly larger tear of the muscle or tendon, and Grade 3 strain is the most severe, and those who have a Grade 3 strain go through a heightened amount of pain. Most strains happen to those who do sports, because they repetitively use of their muscles and tendons. Strains can be caused for a various of reason like fatigue or overexertion. Those who participate in sport tend to get sprains if they…

loading improve symptoms of chronic Achilles tendinopathy in adults? Tendinopathy is known as an overuse injury and often linked to patients who participate in sports which involve repetitive running and jumping, however one third of all patients live a non-active life style (Habets et al., 2014). Eccentric loading, injections, shockwave therapy, modified rest and NSAID’S are all management strategies suggested over the years for the management & treatment of Achilles tendinopathy, this…

Iontophoresis Tennis Elbow is a condition that commonly affects professional to recreational tennis players. Tennis elbow is referred to as lateral elbow tendinopathy (LET) in clinical practice. This study was conducted to test the effectiveness of iontophoresis treatment on patients with LET. Iontophoresis is defined as a treatment that uses an electric charge to move liquid medication into the body or specific targeted area of a muscle or inflamed area. The liquid is known as dexamethasone…

and expose the gastrocnemius muscle. The gastrocnemius muscle was first separated from the tibiofibula bone, but left attached to the knee and the Achilles tendon. A 15 cm long piece of strong thread was tied tightly around the Achilles tendon of the heel of the frog for later attachment of the muscle to the force transducer equipment. The Achilles tendon below the tied string was then severed and the tibiofibula and femur bones were cut away and removed. The gastrocnemius muscle was kept moist…

basketball. Among the more frequent skeletal system injuries that are associated with basketball are stress fractures of the hands, fingers and ankles. Ligament damage which most frequently occurs in the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), and achilles tendon…

friction, it's called a friction massage. A friction massage can be self done if you are able to reach the injured area. The way patients can do this is by rubbing gently back and forth over the inflamed tendon at the point of greatest tenderness. Your strokes should be perpendicular to the fibres of the tendon — like strumming a guitar string, this is pretty simple. This is hard for some patients because it is hard to massage a muscle that's really tight on their own body. The pain that comes…

cerclage placed at 14 weeks which is a cervical stitch. This was placed as a treatment for her cervix which started to shorten and open too early in her pregnancy. She had been in the hospital 4 weeks prior to delivery on bed rest and monitoring. Her rupture of membranes is as follows, PPROM, ROM 9/24 Mag on 9/25, BMZ 9/24-9/25. ABX 9/2. Mom is a G3P2L3. Mother is 39 years old at time of delivery. During my time in the NICU A.J. was at a current gestational age of 35.5 weeks The baby was…

on todays standards. The Two famous stories The Epic of Gilgamesh and the story of Achilles in Homer’s Iliad will be compared mainly in terms of their main characters; Gilgamesh and Achilles. Initially giving background information on the texts themselves and then moving into detail on the meanings and themes of characters a clear line between the two will seem to form. The Epic of Gilgamesh and the story of Achilles in the Homer’s Iliad both successfully create a story around the Hero Epic…

of Telemachus and Laertes, he slaughtered the suitors and cleansed the palace” (Odysseus). Odysseus was one of the first heroes to be noticed not for his physical strength, but rather his intellectual strength. Also, he is the opposite of Achilles. Where Achilles is strength and might, like a bear, Odysseus is intellect and cunning, like a…