After becoming a dad for the third time, it’s still an amazing experience for myself; and my wife also feels the same: that pregnancy and motherhood can be a wonderful experience, though it sometimes may come with some discomforts, inconveniences and pains. Sometimes some patients experience soreness and pain where the epidural injection was done,…
No, it’s not a different type of onion or union. A bunion a.k.a. hallux valgus refers to there being a large bump on the inner side of the foot, at the base of the big toe. These bunions can get injured or inflamed, leading to swelling and lots of pain. Bunions seems to be more…
Burning shoulder pain can be an unusually uncomfortable and even painfully unpleasant experience. Some patients have that burning feel all the time; whereas for others this feeling can be there sometimes only. It can be in a very tiny pinpoint area; or over a large area. Many of these patients who suffer from burning shoulder…
Side stitches can mess up your running, and if you’d ever had one, you must know that many many people get it too. In fact, studies are showing up to 7 in 10 (!!) runners experience this a year. Side stitches sounds like it’s related to sewing, but it’s a specific exercise-related transient abdominal pain…
As physios, we get a lot of patients who loves jogging and running (as well as marathoning) and many of them get runners injuries and pains. One of the best things about running and jogging is that it doesnt need much gear and costs: just running gears such as shoes and light clothings roads, treadmills…
Medically called distal radial fractures, broken wrists are one of the more common fractures in the hand – they normally happen when people fall on outstretched hands, which does break their fall but also fracturing the wrist at the same time. Contents1 Symptoms of broken wrist2 At the accident & emergency department3 Hand therapy for…
Our shoulder joint is a very mobile-yet-complex joint in our body which combines both moving joints and muscles to allow the shoulder the most movement in the entire body. Medically, our shoulders are a type of ball-and-socket joint called the glenohumeral joint where there humeral (long bone of the upper arm, the ball part) rests…
Bone pain tends to be very deep, aching kind of pain, and it can be caused by injuries, diseases or physical conditions that may strongly impact one’s quality of life. These kind of pains also are hard to be localized accurately (or pinpointed) by patients because they’re achey and somatic, which is very different from…
A boutonniere deformity is an injury to the middle joint of the finger (medically called the proximal interphalangeal joint; or shortened to PIP joint), and what happens is that you’d find it impossible to straighten that particular finger joint. To counteract that force, the end joint of the finger, the distal interphalangeal joint (shortened to…
Up to 6 in 10 people has had back pain at some point in their lives, and of these 6, half of them would develop long term back pain that can last for months and years. Causes of back pain can be categorized to: poor postural habits sedentary lifestyle (lots of sitting and lying down,…
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