Cartilage is a very precious and delicate tissue. It is a connective tissue mainly composed of water, collagen fibers and hyaluronic acid. Its structure is extremely smooth and elastic, this kind of conformation allows a fluid movement of the different joints of our body. In detail, its fundamental aim is to assure movement’s processes without [...]
Knee pain (gonalgia) is one of the most common disorders of skeletal muscles. It is characterized by knee pain and often affects people who play sports or have an active lifestyle. Causes and symptoms The nerves that give sensitiveness to the knee and also to hip, thigh and ankles come from the lower back. For [...]
The inflammation of the Achilles tendon affects the largest tendon in the human body and is related to the back of the leg near the heel bone. If it is not properly treated, the mere inflammation can degenerate leading to the tendon rupture. Depending on which part of the tendon is inflamed, there are two [...]
This year we will be in Bologna from 18th to 21st May to attend the 20th edition of Exposanità. To make the wait more pleasant, we share with you a clinical case where endodiathermy, which is a technology that you will find at the trade fair in its latest generation version, was used. The new [...]
Electro-medical devices are not only instruments for the integration of manual physiotherapy treatments and the creation of a wider rehabilitation therapeutic program, but also instruments that can be effectively combined to treat the different stages of a series of sessions. Let's see a case study where tecar, laser and ultrasounds are combined. The muscular [...]
Injury for accidental fall and multi-fragmented proximal comminuted fracture of the epiphysis of radius and ulna in the upper-right arm.
Scientific literature and clinical evidence prove the validity of magnetotherapy as a tool for the stimulation of the healing process of bone fractures, in osteoporosis treatment and in the case of the bone callus delayed formation.
Bedsores, or ulcers, are lesions of the skin and of the deeper tissues (caused by the pressure for a substantial period), which reduces or, in severe cases, stops the blood flow in the affected area. The most of the people who are affected by this disease, and also those most at risk, are undoubtedly the [...]
Do you have leg pain that stretches from the back down to the calf or foot? This may be an inflammation of the sciatic nerve: the sciatica. The term sciatica means precisely the inflammation of the sciatic nerve, the longest one in the human body which originates from the sacral plexus and innervate, through its [...]