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Many people get injured during or after exercise, which stops them from exercising to their full potential. Here are some principles of exercise to prevent injury and help you use your muscle strength to the full.

Frozen shoulder is a condition that restricts movement of the shoulder joint, reducing its range of motion both when you move it yourself and when someone else moves it for you. It usually resolves, but takes quite a long time, and most patients find the pain hard to bear, especially at night.

Rounded shoulders (round shoulder), forward head posture (forward head) and a hunched back (hypokyphosis), or "Upper crossed syndrome", is described in research by V Janda (2013) as a condition caused by muscle imbalance, in which some muscles become weak and lengthened while the opposing muscles become tight and shortened…

The shoulder is one of the body's most important joints and can move in many directions, making it one of the most mobile and most used joints in our daily activities and routines. The shoulder is made up of various muscles and tendons that work together to produce movement…

Wrist pain in new mothers is common from shortly after birth until the baby starts walking, a period when mothers carry their babies for long stretches. This can inflame the tendons and tendon sheaths of the wrist, a condition known as "De Quervain's tenosynovitis (De Quervain's disease)…

In our daily lives, the thumb is used heavily and constantly, in activities such as using a phone, carrying things and working. It is therefore inevitable that pain can develop at the base of the thumb. A common condition is:

Shoulder pain can lead to a variety of conditions, so it needs to be assessed to identify the cause and the specific condition and to plan appropriate treatment. Apart from frozen shoulder, 2 conditions found in people with shoulder pain are:

Using a cold compress to reduce pain: use it in the first 24–48 hours after an injury, or when there are signs of torn or inflamed blood vessels, such as pain with swelling, redness and warmth. Cold constricts the blood vessels and reduces bleeding, so injury and inflammation are reduced…

Knee osteoarthritis is a condition in which the articular cartilage of the knee wears away and the synovial fluid that lubricates the knee decreases, causing friction between the joint surfaces, bone spurs (osteophytes), inflammation and pain…