DOMS is the commonly used abbreviation of ‘Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness’ and is the pain and stiffness felt in muscles a while after unusual or strenuous exercise. Felt most strongly from 24 to 72 hours after exercise, it is thought to be caused by lengthening or...
Understanding Your Spinal Disc Condition When you hear terms like disc bulge, protrusion, or herniation, it often describes the disc's shape, not necessarily an injury. Many of these findings are common and may not be the true source of pain. A key distinction is...
Widespread pain to the muscles of the body, unusually high levels of fatigue, tender points in multiple areas and great sensitivity to seemingly normal things, are all indicative of someone suffering from the disorder known as Fibromyalgia. What are the symptoms of...
Musculoskeletal pain is pain caused by injury to the bones, joints, muscles, ligaments, tendons and/or nerves. The pain can be either acute or chronic and either localised or widespread. It is basically a summary of all the types of physical pain a person could suffer...
Overuse injuries, as the term implies, are the result of the gradual, repetitive action and overuse of certain muscles, tendons or bones, as opposed to acute injuries, like a sprained ankle, which happen instantaneously. They can happen through sports, be work...
When a nerve becomes entrapped or ‘pinched’, usually because of injury to structures next to the nerve, this is referred to as a ‘Pinched nerve’, where nerve pain, damage and associated symptoms can occur. Self-diagnosed pinched nerves rarely need to be operated on...
Also called Scheuermann's Kyphosis, Scheuermann's Disease is a growth condition in which the normal curve of the spine in the upper back is increased. When the front aspect of the vertebral bones doesn’t grow as fast as the back of these bones, the vertebrae become...
The spine of someone with Scoliosis may look more like an ‘S’ shape than the typical straight line. Up to 2% of individuals may have some form of scoliosis but a mere 10% of those are severe. These spinal curves, presenting mostly in adolescence, are usually more...
Along the length of the spine there are small joints on the left and right of each link between the vertebrae. These are your facet joints – one pair of joint surfaces face up and one faces down. The pair above joins the pair below at each level of the spine. The...
“Not a serious accident” you think, but your body has been whipped back and forth in an unexpected, jarring motion and suddenly, sometimes unknowingly, you have become a victim of ‘Whiplash.’ Make no mistake, no accident or seemingly unimportant ‘bumper bashing’ is...