The shoulder is a very special joint. It allows a very great degree of movement to occur at the important junction between the torso and the arm. Notionally a ball and socket joint, the shoulder has been modified so this structure is much less clear than in the hip. The top of the arm bone or humerus is expanded into a large rounded knuckle which is like a ball but the socket is different. ...
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As the individual nerve roots emerge from the neck they join together and separate in a complex fashion in an area called the brachial plexus, running down from the neck to the axilla where the individual arm nerves emerge. Nerves are very vulnerable structures and can be injured in gunshots, direct blows, knife attacks and traction injuries, which involve a sudden stretch. The results can be ...
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For people of forty-five or younger low back pain syndromes are the major cause of activity limitation in the industrialised societies of the west. Defining what a chronic syndrome has been agreed that any condition lasting longer than the expected time of healing of the soft tissues could be classed as chronic, a period of approximately three months. The soft tissues of the body should heal ...
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Patient sometimes report than they wish their arm could be cut off when they are unlucky enough to suffer from the agonising pain of a nerve root impingement. Patients presenting with nerve root lesions look very tired as they have not slept for several nights, are not in the mood for jokes and hold their arm protected in a typical position. Depending on which nerve root is responsible the ...
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As mobility in the neck declines the facet joint capsules, the fibrous bags which surround the joints, are vulnerable to overstretching trauma. An unplanned movement such as turning without thinking about it can pull against the limits of the tightened capsules and cause trauma to the capsular fibres. The pain causes movement inhibition and as the capsules heal up with scar tissue they can ...
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