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Long Head of Biceps Brachii Tendon Injury
Long Head Biceps Brachii Tendon injury (LHBT) is a common source of pain in the shoulder. Biceps tendon pathology is often associated with rotator cuff (RC)...
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- Acromioclavicular Joint Arthritis
- Acute rotator cuff (RC) tendonitis, Treatment
- Aneurysm Osteoarthritis Syndrome (AOS)
- Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury – Symptoms, Treatment
- Arthritis – Types, Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Arthritis Psoriatica; Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
- Arthritis-Related Contracture
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- Can you raise your arm with a torn rotator cuff?
- Carpal Tunnel Syndrome – Symptom, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Causes of Knee Joints Osteoarthritis – Treatment
- Causes of Knee Osteoarthritis – Symptoms, Treatment
- Causes of Rheumatoid Arthritis, Diagnosis
- Causes, Symptoms of Rotator Cuff Tears
- Central Core Disease
- Central Core Myopathy (Central Core Disease)
- Central Polydactyly of the Hand
- Cervical Osteoarthritis; Symptom, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Axonal Type 2C (CMT2C)
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth Hereditary Neuropathy
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth Muscular Atrophy
- Charcot-Marie-Tooth Neuropathy
- Chronic Inflammatory Arthritis – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
- Chronic Low Back Pain – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
- Chronic Low Back Pain in Old Age – Symptoms, Treatment
- Chronic Neck Pain; Causes, Symptom, Treatment
- Classic Multiminicore Myopathy
- Collagen 6-Related Myopathy
- Collagen VI-Related Dystrophy
- Collagen VI-Related Muscle Disorder
- Collagen VI-Related Muscular Dystrophy
- Complication Prenvention of Rotator Cuff Tendonitis
- Cone Dystrophy
- Congenital Absence of Both Forearm and Hand
- Congenital Myopathy 1A
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- Long Term Back Pain – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
- Low Back Pain – Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Low Back Pain; Cold Weather Increasing Causes, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Lower Back Pain Left Side – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
- Lower Back Pain Right Side – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
- Lower Left Back Pain – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
- Lower Right Back Pain – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
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- Olecranon Bursitis
- Osteoarthritis – Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Osteoarthritis Contracture
- Osteoarthritis of Knee – Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Osteoarthritis of Spine – Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Osteoarthritis of Spine Treatment LifeStyle Exercise
- Osteoarthritis Spine Anatomy Causes, Symptoms
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- Radio-Ulnar Terminal Transverse Meromelia
- Regular Physical Activity Erase Arthritis, Osteoarthritis
- Rheumatoid Arthritis – Cause, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Rheumatoid Arthritis Contracture
- Rheumatoid Arthritis Mutilans
- Rotator Cuff muscle injury; Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
- Rotator Cuff Muscle Spasm; Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
- Rotator Cuff Muscle Sprain, Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
- Rotator Cuff Muscle Stiffness; Symptoms, Treatment
- Rotator Cuff Tears; Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Rotator Cuff Tendinitis
- Rotator Cuff Tendonitis – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
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- Sacroiliac Joint Arthritis – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
- Sacroiliac Joint Fracture – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
- Scoliosis – Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Spine Osteoarthritis Treatment, Exercise, Life Style
- Sprain, Strain; Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Symptoms of Rheumatoid Arthritis, Causes
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- Test Diagnosis Of Knee Joints Osteoarthritis
- Test Diagnosis Of Knee Osteoarthritis – Treatment
- Test Diagnosis of Rotator Cuff Tears
- Test Diagnosis of Rotator Cuff Tendonitis, Treatment
- The Pain – Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
- Torn of Rotator Cuff Muscle, Symptoms, Treatment
- Treatment Of Knee Joints Osteoarthritis
- Treatment of Knee Osteoarthritis – Diagnosis, Treatment
- Treatment of Osteoarthritis of Knee Exercise, Complications
- Treatment of Rotator cuff tendonitis, Types
- Trochanteric Bursitis – Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
- Types of Musculoskeletal Injuries
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Acromioclavicular Joint Arthritis
Acromioclavicular joint osteoarthritis is a type of shoulder arthritis that involves degenerative changes to the cartilage and other structures in the acromioclavicular joint. AC joint arthrosis...
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Acute rotator cuff (RC) tendonitis, Treatment
Acute rotator cuff (RC) tendonitis/Rotator Cuff Tears (inflammation) and rotator cuff tears are common conditions inactive people. Both conditions are usually caused by a prolonged period...
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Aneurysm Osteoarthritis Syndrome (AOS)
Aneurysm-osteoarthritis syndrome is a rare, inherited connective-tissue disorder. It mainly causes bulging (aneurysms), stretching (tortuosity), or tearing (dissection) of arteries anywhere in the body, and it...
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Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury – Symptoms, Treatment
Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injury (ACL) is one of 2 cruciate ligaments which aids in stabilization of the knee joint. It is a strong band made of...
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Arthritis – Types, Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
Arthritis is a term often used to mean any disorder that affects joints. Symptoms generally include joint pain and stiffness. Other symptoms may include redness, warmth, swelling, and decreased range of motion of the...
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Arthritis Psoriatica; Causes, Symptoms, Treatment
Arthritis Psoriatica (also arthritis psoriatica, arthropathic psoriasis or psoriatic arthropathy) is a type of inflammatory arthritis that will develop in between 6 and 42% of people who...
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Arthritis-Related Contracture
Arthritis-related contracture is a condition that affects people with arthritis, causing stiffness and limited joint movement. In this article, we will break down the key aspects...
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Back Pain – Causes, Symptoms, Diagnosis, Treatment
Back pain is one of the most common painful and non-life-threatening neuromuscular conditions involving the muscles, nerves, and bones of the back. Pain can vary from...
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Can you raise your arm with a torn rotator cuff?
Can you raise your arm with a torn rotator cuff?/Rotator cuff tendonitis (inflammation) and rotator cuff tears are common conditions in active people. Both conditions are...
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Carpal Tunnel Syndrome – Symptom, Diagnosis, Treatment
Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is a common median nerve compression syndrome and the most common peripheral mononeuropathy. The clinical syndrome is diagnosed by history and physical...
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Causes of Knee Joints Osteoarthritis – Treatment
Causes of Knee Joints Osteoarthritis/Knee Osteoarthritis (OA), also known as degenerative joint disease, is typically the result of wear and tear and progressive loss of articular...
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Radio-Ulnar Terminal Transverse Meromelia
Radio-ulnar terminal transverse meromelia is a birth problem where the baby is born without the forearm bones (radius and ulna) and without the hand on that...
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Congenital Absence of Both Forearm and Hand
Congenital absence of both forearm and hand is a rare birth condition. In this condition, the baby is born with the upper arm present, but the...
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Cone Dystrophy
Cone dystrophy is a rare eye disease where the cone cells in the retina slowly stop working properly. Cone cells are the light-sensing cells that help...
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Collagen VI-Related Muscular Dystrophy
Collagen VI-related muscular dystrophy is a group of rare genetic muscle diseases where the body makes collagen type VI in an abnormal way. Collagen VI is...
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Collagen VI-Related Muscle Disorder
Collagen VI-related muscle disorder is a group of rare genetic diseases that weaken the muscles of the body and also affect the soft connective tissue around...
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Collagen VI-Related Dystrophy
Collagen VI-related dystrophy is a group of rare genetic diseases that damage the muscles and the supporting tissues around them. In this condition, the body has...
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Collagen 6-Related Myopathy
Collagen 6-related myopathy (often written as collagen VI-related myopathy) is a rare inherited muscle disease. It happens when there is a change (mutation) in the genes...
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Classic Multiminicore Myopathy
Classic multiminicore myopathy is a rare inherited muscle disease that starts very early in life and stays for the whole lifetime. It belongs to a group...
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Myoseptumitis
Myoseptumitis is a medical word that means inflammation of the myoseptum, which is the thin wall of tissue inside a muscle that separates small bundles of...
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Myoseptum Inflammation
Myoseptum inflammation is a thin sheet of strong connective tissue that lies between blocks of muscle fibers. It acts like a wall or partition inside the...
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Paroxysmal Exercise-Induced Dystonia (PED)
Paroxysmal exercise-induced dystonia (PED) is a rare brain movement problem. It causes short attacks of abnormal movements when a person does long or strong exercise, like...
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Charcot-Marie-Tooth Disease Axonal Type 2C (CMT2C)
Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease axonal type 2C (CMT2C) is a rare inherited nerve disease. It mainly damages the long nerves that control movement and feeling in your arms...
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Peroneal Muscular Atrophy
Peroneal muscular atrophy is an older name for Charcot–Marie–Tooth disease (CMT). It is a group of inherited (genetic) nerve diseases that slowly damage the peripheral nerves...
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Charcot-Marie-Tooth Neuropathy
Charcot-Marie-Tooth neuropathy is a group of inherited nerve diseases that slowly damage the long nerves in the arms and legs. These nerves are called “peripheral nerves.”...
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Charcot-Marie-Tooth Hereditary Neuropathy
Charcot-Marie-Tooth hereditary neuropathy is a group of genetic disorders that damage the peripheral nerves, especially those that control muscles and carry feeling in the feet, legs,...
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Charcot-Marie-Tooth Muscular Atrophy
Charcot-Marie-Tooth muscular atrophy (usually called Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease, or CMT) is a group of genetic nerve diseases that slowly damage the long nerves in the legs, feet,...
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Ulnar Dimelia
Ulnar dimelia is a very rare birth problem of the arm and hand. In this condition the radius bone on the thumb side is missing, and...
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Mirror Hand
Mirror hand, also called ulnar dimelia, is an extremely rare birth difference where the bones on the “little-finger side” of the forearm (the ulna and the...
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Mesoaxial Polydactyly
Mesoaxial polydactyly of the fingers means there is an extra finger in the middle part of the hand, usually next to the index, middle, or ring...
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Mesoaxial Polydactyly
Mesoaxial polydactyly (also called central polydactyly) means that a person is born with an extra finger or toe in the middle part of the hand or...
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