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1- femur is the longest bone in the human body. The upper end or the head of the femur bone makes a joint that is called hip joint with the hip bone and the lower end which consists of condyles forms tibio-femoral joint, Fibulo-femoral joint and patello- femoral joint of the knee joint. 2. Sartorius is the longest muscle of the human body which is […]

Ligaments are fibrous bands which are present near two or more bones and connect adjacent bones to provide stability to the joint. They might be tough but they are very flexible and stretchable and provide good range of gliding motion at the joint and at the same time they also prevent the abnormal movements at the joint. Types of ligaments- 1)- According to their composition- […]

Radiating pain refers to pain originating from the nerve roots in spinal cord and feeling it all across the course of the nerve. It generally occurs due to compression or impingement of the nerve roots leading to pins and needles feeling and in extreme cases numbness and weakness is also felt. Causes- Usually radiating pain is caused by disc bulge in the spine, osteophytes formation […]

Have you been suffering in silence? You don’t know what is causing that nagging lower back pain and the pins and needles feeling all around at the back of your thigh, medial side of your hips and in the calf muscles? Well, it could be Sciatica. Usually sciatica causes sharp and shooting pain in the lower back region and at the back of the thigh. […]

Have you been feeling nagging pain in the medial side of your elbow joint? Has it been bothering you for so long that you have run out of remedies? Many people don’t know the real reason for their elbow pain and keep pushing it under the carpet thinking it will vanish on its own. Well, your elbow joint pain may turn out to be golfer’s […]

Has there been nagging pain at your elbow joint for a while? Have you been wondering what is causing it? And you have not been able to figure out how to get rid of this nagging pain at the elbow joint. Well don’t worry, here are the proper solutions for your nagging elbow pain which might be due to a phenomenon called tennis elbow. Tennis […]

The shoulder joint is a ball and socket joint. The head of the humerus and the socket of the scapula make glenohumeral joint which provides a great degree of range of motion. This wide range of mobility is due to laxity of its fibrous capsule and the four times large size of the head of the humerus as compared with the shallow glenoid cavity. The […]

The human body has got 33 vertebrae and between two vertebra there is a disc which acts as a shock absorber in human beings. The intervertebral disc has three distinct components, the cartilage end plates, nucleus pulposus and annulus fibrosus. The nucleus pulposus is the central portion of the disc which is consists of a gelatinous material and that lies posterior to the central axis […]

It has been bothering you from a long long time. That nagging pain at the back of your head or just at the base of your neck is causing you lot of discomfort. Time has come for you to address it before it becomes something bigger. Though cervical spondylitis is a degenerative condition of cervical spine found almost globally in adults above 50 years of […]

Whether you are a male or a female you must have had heel pain at some point in your life. Did you ever wonder why you get heel pain while walking, running and not the other part of the body aches. Most people also get heel pain by prolong sitting in only one position. Heel pain in sitting position occurs due to lack of blood […]