Your abdominal muscles are continuously engaged when swimming. Certain swimming strokes, such as freestyle and butterfly, require your body to twist and bend in extreme ways. Tears are possible with the overuse of certain abdominal muscles, but...
Hamstring tears -- also called a pulled or strained hamstring -- are challenging for both athletes and rehabilitation professionals due to their high rate of recurrence. Nearly one-third of hamstring tears recur within the first year, according to...
Muscle tears occur for many reasons, including overworking a muscle or stretching it beyond its breaking point. Maintaining strong and healthy muscles can help reduce muscle tears, but nutrition also plays a role. Glutamine is an amino acid your...
Meniscal tears affect the meniscus cartilage between your shinbone and thighbone. The meniscus helps to cushion your knee joint and provide stability. Exercises that rehabilitate a torn meniscus first concentrate on restoring your knee joint's...
The tendon is a thick fibrous cord that connects muscle to bone and allows for joint movement. A tendon can be partially or completely torn due to certain conditions or situations. A completely torn tendon is termed a tendon rupture, and a...
The meniscus is a C-shaped piece of cartilage located between your shinbone and thighbone. Each knee has two menisci. A torn meniscus may cause pain, swelling and stiffness. If certain yoga poses are performed without proper alignment, your...
The inside of your hip socket is lined with a thick band of fibrous tissue called the labrum. The labrum acts as a buffer between the ball and socket of your hip joint, and when it tears, your joint function can be affected. Hip labral tears can...
Skin tears develop more readily in aging adults but can also occur in younger individuals who take corticosteroids, have a history of previous skin tears or suffer from malnourishment. Dr. Lawrence E. Gibson, Mayo Clinic, says genetics and...
Exercise places high amounts of stress on the muscles. Whether this stress is high-intensity and for short periods or low-intensity for longer periods, increased workloads can exhaust the muscles and put them at a greater risk for injury. Soreness...
Pedaling requires the knee to open and close repeatedly, so the most common knee problems will be overuse injuries. A medial meniscus tear is sudden onset trauma. In other words, something happens to cause the cartridge in the knee to tear. This...
Muscle tears, more commonly known as muscle strains, occur when some or all of the fibers in one or more of your muscles break. Muscle strains may be chronic or acute and that chronic strains are often caused by repetitive muscle overuse while...
Hamstring tears, also known as strains or pulls, occur in the hamstring muscles of the back of the upper leg. According to Sports Injury Clinic, hamstring muscles are made up of three muscles: the semitendinosus, semimembranosous and biceps...
Meniscus tears typically occur with twisting forces or degenerative wear on the knee. Some tears may heal on their own with rest and treatment. Others caused by significant trauma to the knee may require surgical repair or removal of the meniscus...
Job's Tears, also known as adlay and coix, is a member of the grass family and popular in Asian cultures as a food source and for making jewelry. But the plant has also been used for centuries in folk medicine to treat dozens of conditions from...
Sports that require strong, repetitive movements can provoke injuries in muscles and tendons. Boxing demands strength and speed, both of which issue from honing muscles and tendons to perform at full capacity. Soft tissue in the arms and shoulders...
The biceps tendons are tough pieces of connective tissue that attach the bicep muscle in the upper arm to bones in two locations: the elbow and the shoulder. These tendons ensure that the bicep muscle remains attached to the upper arm bones when a...
The rotator cuff refers to group of muscles and tendons (fibrous bands that connects tissue to bone) in the shoulder. If you fall or overstretch your arm, you can injure your rotator cuff. If you have a rotator cuff tear, symptoms will include...
A muscle pull or tear can be a painful, inconvenient experience that can potentially keep you from performing many activities, depending on the size and location of the affected muscle. Generally, both pulled and torn muscles are characterized by...
When a shoulder muscle or tendon in the rotator cuff tears, people lose both strength and range of motion. Shoulder function can diminish greatly due to inflammation and tissue damage, especially if the injury affects the bones or nerves as well....
Tears to the meniscus -- the thick, shock absorbing cartilage of the knee -- prove painful and limit activity. Some tears in the more vascular area of the meniscus heal without surgery. To promote healing and prevent further injury, doctors...
Calf muscle tears, also known as calf muscle strains and sprains, are very painful. They are usually the result of muscles and tendons losing their elasticity with age. While the pain subsides after resting, rehabilitation to repair the tear...
The biceps muscle is a large muscle in the front of the upper arm that helps the elbow bend upwards and helps the patient turn his hand from palm down to palm up. In order to effectively move these joints, the biceps muscle must attach to the...
A rotator cuff tear can either be acute or chronic. An acute tear may happen when your rotators are put under tension when playing sports or when making quick movements like swinging or extending your arms. Over time, the tendons can rub against...
The shoulder is like a ball (humeral head) on a plate (glenoid portion of shoulder blade). Because of this, the shoulder is inherently an unstable joint. Additional stability is imparted by the labrum, an O-ring of tougher cartilage surrounding...
The medial meniscus is a wedge-shaped piece of cartilage that lines the knee joint along the midline of the body. The meniscus acts as a shock absorber between the thighbone and shinbone during weight bearing activities. According to the American...
Any time your body is injured, you must first allow the area to heal, and then start the rehabilitation or strengthening process. Physical therapy is a post-injury process focused on restoring function and range-of-motion to injured limbs, helping...
Consuming the appropriate foods and nutrients might help you prevent muscle tears. According to the Sports Injury Bulletin website, diet is an important factor in athletic performance, and it may be as crucial in preventing musculoskeletal...
Your rotator cuff is composed of muscles and tendons that originate from your shoulder blade and attach to your upper arm bone to keep your shoulder in place. This combination results in the greatest range of motion of any joint in your body,...
Life's challenges can make it difficult to move forward, but luckily, several methods are available to help you stay strong physically, mentally and emotionally. A healthy and active lifestyle is not only helpful for your physical well being, but...
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