Carpal tunnel syndrome is a painful condition affecting the hand and wrist. The carpal tunnel is a narrow passageway made up of bones and ligaments at the base of your hand, and also contains the median nerve and tendons of the thumb and fingers. The tendons connect your muscles to your bones while the median [...]

Bursitis refers to the irritation or inflammation of a bursa, which is a small fluid-filled sac that acts as a gliding surface to minimize friction between the tissues of the body, most commonly at joints. There are more than 150 bursae in the body that cushion and lubricate areas where the bones, muscles, and tendons [...]

Arthritis is a group of conditions that causes pain and inflammation to joint cartilage in the body. Joints are the areas where two bones meet such as the knee, hip, shoulder or elbow. They allow our bodies to move in many different ways. Damage to the joints can result in joint weakness, instability, decreased movement [...]

In our daily lives, we do many things that may cause pain in the back among other areas. Most of the time this is normal and following some guidelines and restrictive movements, we find the pain quickly goes away and things get back to normal but there are other times when it’s important to seek [...]

Many people are faced with living every day with constant back pain. Others are prone to recurring back pain from performing seemingly everyday activities. This is what is known as chronic back pain and the tips below may help you find relief and can also be used from acute back pain sufferers.