What are Arthritis mutilans? Arthritis mutilans is an irregular medical disease including severe inflammation impairing the joints of the hands and feet, and resulting in deformation and issues with moving the involved sites; it can also involve the spine. Also called pencil-in-cup deformity, arthritis mutilans is the most extreme form of psoriatic arthritis. Arthritis mutilans…
What is Maffucci syndrome? Maffucci syndrome is a disease that primarily involves the bones and skin. It is represented by multiple enchondromas (benign enlargements of cartilage), bone malformations, and hemangiomas (tangles of abnormal blood vessels). The abnormal growths with Maffucci syndrome may become cancerous (malignant). Certain, involved people may develop bone cancers known as chondrosarcomas,…
When you feel groin or upper thigh pain and also feel tingling, weakness, and numbness in the groin or leg. It is indicated to be muscle pain in the pectineus muscle pain.In this muscle pain, you also hear the pop or snapping sound. What is the pectineus muscle pain? The pectineus muscle is a flat,…
What is Pseudogout? Pseudogout is a type of arthritis that causes spontaneous, aching swelling in your joints. It occurs when crystals form in the synovial fluid, the fluid that lubricates the joints. This conducts to inflammation and ache. This disease most frequently involves the knee joints, but it can also affects other joints. It’s more…
Introduction The nerve to quadratus femoris and inferior gemellus is formed from the anterior or ventral divisions of the L4, L5, and S1 nerve roots of the sacral plexus. The nerve gives muscular branches to the quadratus femoris and inferior gemellus muscles as well as giving an articular branch to the hip joint. Gross anatomy…
Introduction The nerve to the obturator internus and superior gemellus is formed by the anterior (ventral) divisions of the L5, S1, and S2 nerve roots of the sacral plexus. The nerve innervates the obturator internus and superior gemellus muscles as well as the fascia of the lateral aspect wall of the ischioanal fossa. Gross anatomy…
Introduction In mirror therapy (MT), a mirror is used to create a reflective illusion of an affected limb to trick the brain into thinking movement has occurred without pain, or to create positive visual feedback of a limb movement. It affects placing the manufactured limb behind a mirror. The mirror is positioned so the consideration…
What is Legg-Calve-Perthes Disease? Legg-Calve-Perthes disease is an infrequent childhood disease that involves the hip. It happens when the blood supply to the spherical head of the femur (thighbone) is temporarily disrupted. Without a sufficient blood supply, the bone cells die, a method is known as avascular necrosis. Legg-Calve-Perthes disease also called Perthes disease, is…
Introduction The zygomaticus minor muscles are muscles of facial expression. It arises from the zygomatic bone, lateral to the remains of the levator labii superioris muscle, and inserts into the outer part of the upper lip. It marks the upper lip backward, upward, and outward and is also used in smiling. It is also innervated…
Introduction The medial cutaneous nerve of the forearm, this nerve is also called the medial antebrachial cutaneous nerve, is a branch of the medial cord of the brachial plexus and it supplies the anterior and medial region of the forearm as far distal as the wrist. Gross anatomy Origin The medial cutaneous nerve of the…
