When you have a (sports) injury, you are often balking and want to know where it went wrong and what you can do about it to prevent it in the future. Many cases involve the strain on the body. So you are asking more of your body that what it can handle (capacity). Endurance vs load...
Research by Jonothan Tsehaie, affiliated with the Xpert Clinic and Erasmus MC in Rotterdam, shows that treating patients with osteoarthritis of the thumb using hand therapy and splints results in less pain and improved hand function. Nowadays, (too) many different treatment techniques are used for osteoarthritis of the thumb....
On NOS.nl we saw an interesting article about all the 'miracle remedies' being advised online to people with lower back pain. Very often on Google and through Facebook, bite-sized solutions are offered that are often not nearly as effective as the provider would have you believe. Back pain is one of the most common complaints of the...
Neck pain is common. Examples include: neck pain; osteoarthritis; poor posture; neck injury and a herniated disc. You can get neck pain from conditions that affect your muscles, such as bad posture while sleeping. A fancy word is cervical complaints. What are neck complaints? These complaints are often thought of as a dull pain. Sometimes this pain gets worse because...
Do you experience burning, stabbing pain on the outside of your knee while exercising? This may indicate a runner's knee. This injury mainly occurs in runners and cyclists because they train (too) much. How do you recognise a runner's knee? During exercise, the pain slowly sets in. As the pain becomes increasingly severe, it is impossible to...