Ace The Sports Medicine Exam

The glenohumeral joint is structurally a ball-and-socket joint and functionally is considered a diarthrodial, multiaxial, joint.

Muscle cramps result in continuous, involuntary, painful, and localized contraction of an entire muscle group, individual single muscle, or select ...

A spinal cord injury is a potentially crippling injury which often results in severe and permanent disability. Quite often when we encounter multi- ...

Proximal humeral epiphysiolysis (Little League shoulder) is a shear or stress injury of the epiphyseal cartilage of the proximal humerus. Little Le ...

Hypertrophic obstructive cardiomyopathy (HOCM) is a relatively common disorder. Historically, it has been referred to as idiopathic hypertrophic su ...

Pudendal neuralgia caused by pudendal nerve entrapment (PNE) is a chronic and severely disabling neuropathic pain syndrome.

Epstein Barr virus (EBV) is a double-stranded DNA virus that infects B lymphocyte cells. It is in the herpesvirus family and was discovered in 1964 ...

The distal radioulnar joint (DRUJ) is responsible for the integrity of the articulation between the distal radius and distal ulna; this is importan ...

According to the Sports and Fitness Industry Association 2015 report, there are approximately three million people who engage in scuba diving-relat ...

The hamstring muscle complex is comprised of three individual muscles and plays a critical role in human activities ranging from standing to explos ...

Uhthoff’s phenomenon (also known as Uhthoff sign or Uhthoff syndrome) is described as temporary, short-lived (less than 24 hours), ...

The nasal bones are the most frequently fractured in the maxillofacial area due to both the relative weakness of the bones, and the outward project ...

Stress injuries represent a spectrum of injuries ranging from periostitis, caused by inflammation of the periosteum, to a complete stress fracture ...

Nitrates are a class of medications (not to be confused with the byproduct of nitrogen fertilizers) that cause vasodilation by donating nitric oxid ...

As the largest of the cranial nerves, the trigeminal nerve is responsible for the primary sensory input from the head and neck as well as providing ...

The term “turf toe” was initially described by Bowers in 1976 as a sprain of the plantar capsule–ligament of the great toe metata ...

Dysbaric osteonecrosis is a type of avascular necrosis of the bone most commonly found in undersea divers and workers breathing compressed air or g ...

Epicondylitis is a common cause of elbow pain in athletes and the general population. It can occur both at the medial and lateral epicondyle with m ...