Competence of pain treatment goes beyond pharmacotherapy, combines it with i.a. pysiotherapy and kinesitherapy, which may precede and should be used after surgical procedures.
The art of combining various fields of medicine in order for fighting pain is useful when correct clinical diagnosis is stated. Pain treatment in musculoskeletal system diseases – part II presents ways of therapeutic procedures in painful shoulder syndrome, periarticular inflammations of elbow joint, bursitis of limbs, plantar aponeurositis, and other derivations of knee and hip pain. Read full text »

Competence of pain treatment goes beyond pharmacotherapy, combines it with i.a. physiotherapy and kinesitherapy, which may precede and should be used after surgical procedures. The art of combining various fields of medicine in order for fighting pain is useful when correct clinical diagnosis is stated. Read full text »

Carpal Tunnel Syndrome is a common disorder which makes moving hand difficult and causes large discomfort. Until now one of the method of treatment included cutting the skin and decompression of median nerve whose tightness caused the symptoms of disorder. Scientists, however, have formulated a method which to large extend minimizes disturbing continuity of skin and other tissues. The method described by Stephen B. Gunther from Frank R. Howard Memorial Hospital together with associates is to decompress the nerve percutaneously  together with the use of nerve conduction procedure. Read full text »

Patients suffering from heterotopic ossification could hope for remedy to their illness which will appear soon. Scientist from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia have released thesis which presents results of tests on mice. In the thesis the scientists focus on affecting retinoic receptor RAR-y. The results of experiments were released in Nature Medicine. Read full text »

A group of scientists from Washington University (St. Louis, MO, USA) is working on creating a material that would help reconstruct the natural connection between the bone and muscles. Past treating methods restored the function of joints after injury, but did not allow a return of damaged structures to a natural anatomical state. An example might be a rotator cuff tear, the repair of which is the main purpose of scientists led by Younan Xia, PhD, and Stavros Thomopoulos, who work testing their innovative invention – biomimetic patches. Read full text »