What is Dizziness? Dizziness is a phrase used to express a range of sensations, like woozy, feeling faint, weak, or unsteady. Dizziness that makes the false sense that you or your surroundings are spinning or moving is known as vertigo. Dizziness is one of the more familiar causes for grown-ups to visit their doctors or…
What is Tuberculous arthritis? Tuberculous arthritis is an infection of the joints or junctions due to Tuberculosis (TB) that leads to degenerative changes in the affected joints. Causes, incidence, and risk factors Tuberculous arthritis is induced by the bacteria, Mycobacterium tuberculosis. A very small numeral of people who have Tuberculosis – TB will create this…
What is Polymyalgia rheumatica? Polymyalgia indicates “multiple muscle pains.” Rheumatica indicates “changing” or “in flux.” Polymyalgia rheumatica is an inflammatory disease that generates muscle pain and stiffness, especially in the shoulders and hips. The disease develops most frequently in people aged 65 and more aged, and it might be connected to another inflammatory disease called…
Description Muscle Energy Technique (MET) is a technique that was invented in 1948 by Fred Mitchell, Sr, D.O. It is a type of manual therapy, widely used in Osteopathy, that uses a muscle’s energy in the form of gentle isometric contractions to relax the muscles via autogenic or reciprocal inhibition and lengthen the muscle. As…
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…
