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The plantar fascia is actually a broad ligament that extends along the underside of the foot, from the heel bone all the way to the toes. It has three functions, two of which are well described in the literature.
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One of my friends, an active athlete and unfortunately, a frequent patient of mine, has often loudly commented on the fact that during therapies, I show no interest in the exact spot where he feels pain, tightness, or another issue for which he sought help.
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In the 1990s, almost all groin pains, especially in athletes, were attributed to muscle strains or inflammation of their tendons.
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Ankle sprains are the most common injury in that part of the body. Sprains can be classified by severity into mild, moderate, and severe, and by type into inversion (twisting inward), eversion (twisting outward), and plantar, where the entire foot is bent backward.
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This is an unusual condition that only occurs in the shoulder joint and nowhere else in the body. If the patient does not have diabetes, it occurs only once in a lifetime. In over 97% of cases, it leaves no lasting consequences once it passes. Even after 200 years of research, we still do not understand the causes of its onset.
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We had many questions and uncertainties about athlete training, especially in the transitional phase from the rehabilitation process (which we completed) to sport, professional training and competition. Very often, coaches and physiotherapists are unsure of how this transitional phase should look.
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Imaging diagnostics, especially MRI, has brought significant benefits to orthopedics and physiotherapy. Especially today, when examinations with 3T resolution machines are available to most. Whenever we are unsure about a diagnosis, MRI is there, and the information it provides is usually useful. However, relying predominantly on images and less on physical examination has its drawbacks.
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Anterior knee pain is common in adolescents and young women, often with no clear diagnosis. Discover possible causes and treatment approaches using the holistic tension model.
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Shoulder joint is built so that the cup looks like a shallow saucer, and is located on the scapula and is called the glenoid, and the joint head is an almost regular sphere, significantly larger than the cup. Such a structure allows great mobility, but also considerable instability.
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When the scapula makes an unusual movement when raising the arm, we call it dyskinesia. This phenomenon has been talked about a lot in the profession for the last twenty years.
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In direct translation, impingement means pinching, which means that the pathological processes in this painful syndrome are caused by too strong or too long pressure on the soft tissues in the shoulder.
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Today, we consider osteophytes to be the body’s normal response to the physical stress to which that compound is exposed.
Their formation increases the surface area over which the force is transferred to the bone, thus reducing the pressure per unit area.
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Recently, a football player sought assistance a few days after receiving a blow to the thigh during a match. Two days after the injury, the front muscle of the thigh was painful and slightly swollen, after a rough massage at the club, colloquially referred to as “dissolving the hematoma,” the swelling of the thigh increased even more.
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Imaging diagnostics (MRI, X-ray, ultrasound, CT…) is of great assistance in diagnosis, but when taken for granted, it can also be a major obstacle, as shown by the following example from our practice.
