Osteoarthritis (OA) is the most common chronic condition of the joints. Also called degenerative joint disease, OA of the knee happens when the cartilage in the knee joint wears down over time. Current treatment options for knee osteoarthritis, such as pain relievers, have limited effectiveness and potentially have adverse side effects. Massage is a safe
Groin injuries are prevalent in male football, accounting for 4%–19% of all time-loss injuries. In elite players, approximately one in five male players incur a groin injury causing time loss to play. Previous groin-specific prevention programmes have not shown a significant reduction in groin injury rates. In football, two out of three cases of groin
People with shoulder pain who expect physiotherapy to help them are likely to have a better recovery than those who expect only minimal or no improvement, according to our latest study. The study also found that people are likely to have a better recovery if they are confident they will be able to continue doing
Our brains seem to reduce sensory perception from an area of our skin when we touch it ourselves, according to a study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. Researchers from Linköping University in Sweden examined what happens in various parts of the nervous system when a person is touched by another person
Chronic musculoskeletal pain is a significant health problem and is associated with increases in pain during acute physical activity. A study by researchers from the University of Iowa examined if regular physical activity has a role in the development of chronic pain. The study used mice as subjects, a group of mice was induced with
Massage therapy can be considered as hard work, as performing massage requires energy. However, there is no objective measure yet on how much calorie is used in a course of treatment. Researchers from Poland tried to evaluate the intensity of the effort and energy expenditure in the course of performing selected classical massage techniques. This
Noxious-evoked brain activity been found to occur in both adults and in infants when pain is experienced. A subclass of C-tactile (CT) sensory (afferent) neurons of the nervous system found in hairy skin is activated by gentle touch and responds optimally to stroking at approximately 1–10 cm/sec. In adults, stimulation of these C-tactile afferents is
Epimuscular myofascial force transmission is a concept that concerns the transmission of muscular forces to the skeleton via pathways other than the typically thought of mechanism of muscle force transmission created by the sliding filament mechanism. MUSCULAR FASCIA. PERMISSION JOSEPH E. MUSCOLINO. WWW.LEARNMUSLES.COM. ART WORK BY GIOVANNI RIMASTI. Sliding Filament Mechanism for Myofascial Force
