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Professional dancers have enviable grace, flexibility and strength that mere mortals admire to attain. However, their physical fluidity in movements can become irregular because of muscle cramps. Muscle cramps, after all, can be excruciatingly pain...

While arm injuries are less common than leg, knee and feet injuries among runners, runners should also be just as aware of their vulnerability to arm injuries. This will lead to a productive career and peak fitness levels. The higher prevalence...

Although you should trust your doctor about his professional competence, you should also be an informed patient as well. You and your doctor can then be on a better footing about your options – and this is true for one of the most common sports inj...

Healthpointe’s team of hip specialists is now treating hip injuries at all of their clinics. Specialties include hip dislocations, fractures, bursitis, sprains/strains, and other injuries or disorders. For athletes with hip injuries, Healthpoint...

Among baseball players, wrist pain is one of the most common injuries aside from shoulder and arm injuries. This is because the wrists are in constant torque during play and practice, often in all different directions and in unnatural ways. The...

While diving may appear as a relatively safe sport – divers do not engage in contact sports or put their bodies through physically demanding movements – this is not so. Divers are still prone to injuries when diving off the board, said injuries of...

On March 5, 2015, Portland Trail Blazers announced that shooting guard Wesley Matthews is out for the season with a torn Achilles tendon in his left leg. This injury occurred while the Trail Blazers were competing against Dallas, and was confirmed...

Shin splints are more common among female professional dancers than previously thought, mainly because of their mental ability to overlook the pain in favour of performance. But these injuries should neither be dismissed nor overlooked because of t...