Physiotherapy management of marathon musculo-skeletal casualties.

Physiotherapy management of marathon musculo-skeletal casualties.

Physiotherapists with experience in sports injuries are an essential part of the marathon medical team as they are familiar with the injuries suffered by the long distance runners and are thus able to make a rapid assessment of the injury on the marathon day and treat accordingly. The long distance runner is liable to suffer from the whole gamut of injuries to the lower limb including muscle an...

Musculo-skeletal ultrasound in rheumatology practice.

In rheumatology ultrasound is a relatively new but rapidly developing field, and now forms an important part of curriculum of rheumatology training programs in European countries. Ultrasound is now an accepted procedure to differentiate between arthralgia and arthritis, to look for erosions in early arthritis which is otherwise not visible on plain radiographs, to scan tendons in enthesopathies...

The musculo-skeletal features of hypothyroidism.

DURING recent years it has become accepted that patients with hypothyroidism may present with a variety of rheumatic syndromes, sometimes well before the more obvious features of myxoedema have appeared, and these 'hypothyroid-rheumatic syndromes' will be described. This term is used in preference to 'myxoedematous arthropathy', because the patients in question are not frankly myxoedematous, my...

New Mechanics of Generic Musculo-Skeletal Injury

Prediction and prevention of musculo-skeletal injuries is an important aspect of preventive health science. Using as an example a human knee joint, this paper proposes a new coupled– loading–rate hypothesis, which states that a generic cause of any musculo-skeletal injury is a Euclidean jolt, or SE(3)−jolt, an impulsive loading that hits a joint in several coupled degreesof-freedom simultaneous...

Chiropractors & Osteopaths Musculo-Skeletal Interest Group (COMSIG)