Joint pains can be highly frustrating. Whether they affect your knee, your shoulder or your back; losing mobility is no laughing matter and can prevent …
Musculoskeletal Disorders
Ingrown Toenail Causes, Symptoms and Treatment
Ingrown toenails form when our toenails grow into the skin surrounding the nail bed and thus create open wounds. This can occur as a result …
How to Prevent Runners’ Knee
Along with shin splints, bad knees are perhaps the biggest bugbears for most runners. Often knee injuries can end up completely halting a running career …
What Is Bursitis? And How to Treat It
Bursitis describes inflammation of one or more ‘bursae’, which in turn are small sacs of fluid lined by synovial membrane. The role of bursae (or …
How to Tell If You’re Flat Footed (And What to Do About It)
Being ‘flat footed’ means that you have collapsed arches in your feet. In other words, where there should be a raised arch taking your feet …
How to Fix Your Posture (Kyphosis/Hip Tilt) With Exercise and Lifestyle Changes
I must confess: when I used to see any article with the word ‘posture’ in the title my eyes would glaze over. This is boring …
Calf Cramps and Swimming
Cramp is a highly painful phenomenon and one that can actually incapacitate us for short periods depending on the severity. This is bad enough when …
LGMD Symptoms and Treatment
LGMD stands for ‘limb-girdle muscular dystrophy’ which is also sometimes known as ‘Erb’s muscular dystrophy’. This is a rare autosomal (meaning caused by a chromosome …
Glucosamine for Knee Pain
There are few things more frustrating than knee pain, but unfortunately it is also one of the most common forms of chronic pain that we …