Repetitive strain injury (RSI) is a general term used to describe the pain felt in muscles, nerves and tendons caused by continuous movement and overuse. It’s also known as work-related upper limb disorder, or non-specific upper limb pain. The forearms and elbows, wrists and hands, neck and shoulders are places the condition usually affects. Symptoms of […]
What is Rehabilitation? Rehabilitation is restoration to good health. It care that can help you get back, keep, or improve abilities needed for daily life that you may have lost because of a disease, injury, or as a side effect of other medical treatment. These abilities may be physical, mental, and/or cognitive (thinking and learning). […]
Treatment Of Rotator Cuff Injury: The Rotator Cuff is a group of muscles and tendons surrounding your shoulder joints. They help you lift and move your arms away from your body. The Rotator Cuff keeps the ball of the upper arm bone (humerus) firmly in the shoulder blade socket. A rotator cuff injury cause a […]
Treatment of Body Stiffness: When you have general body stiffness, it really means it’s difficult for you to move any parts of your body especially in the joint areas as you would under normal circumstances. Because this experience can be followed with pains and swellings in those regions of the body (the hands, legs, neck […]
BODY WEAKNESS (Asthenia) Many people use the term weakness as a means of expressing tiredness, weariness, lack of energy or fatigue, Although this is not technically correct. Weakness is a decrease in the strength of one or more muscles. The medical definition of weakness refers to the loss of muscle strength. Weakness may be generalized […]
Where can I get a Physiotherapist in Abuja? At Effective Physiotherapy and Fitness Clinic there are qualified physiotherapists who will attend to you. It is a physiotherapy center that assesses, diagnoses, treats, and works to prevent diseases and disability by using physical means. Moreover, we don’t use drugs in our treatment. However, you will have […]
Bell palsy is named after the Scottish anatomist Charles Bell – the first to describe the condition. It is also known as acute peripheral facial palsy.. It has no known cause but causes temporary weakness or paralysis of the muscles of the face. This usually occur when the nerve that controls the facial muscles becomes […]
This is a general term for difficulty lifting the front part of the foot. If you have a foot drop, the front of your foot might drag on the ground when you walk. This is as a result of weakness or paralysis of the muscles involved in lifting the front part of the foot. In […]
Paresthesia is the numbness or a burning feeling that occurs most often in the extremities such as the hands, arms legs or feet. However, it can also happen anywhere in the body. It is the same pins and needles feeling that happens when someone sits on their leg or foot for too long. Paresthesia usually […]
Numbness in a lay man language is a loss of feeling or sensation in a particular part of the body. In addition this can be as a result of cold, anesthesia . Moreover, a constriction on nerves connected to that area of the body (most commonly, parts of the hands or legs) can also lead […]