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Parkinson’s patients who participated for two years in resistance exercise, also known as weight training, experienced improvements in tremors and other motor symptoms associated with Parkinson’s disease, according to a study presented at the April 2012 American Academy of Neurology’s annual meeting. Researchers studied 48 Parkinson’s disease patients. The patients participated in one of [...] Physical therapists and others who help patients recover from ankle injuries often work on strengthening and stretching the ankle joint. A new study by the University of Georgia suggests the way patients move their hip and knee joints also might impact whether a patient is at high risk for ankle re-injury. And changing the way patients move in order to minimize that risk could be an important part of patients’ rehabilitation for ankle sprains. [...] Do you have pain at night around your shoulder that keeps you from sleeping on the painful side? Do you have trouble dressing or combing your hair because of shoulder pain? If you do, you might have something called adhesive capsulitis, or “frozen shoulder.” If you could look inside your shoulder, you’d see inflamed connective tissue around the shoulder joint, causing thickening and tightening in the affected area. [...] |
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