An Achilles tendon rupture is usually obvious when it happens. It is a potential serious injury because of the rehabilitation that is needed. Treatment is generally with a walking brace or surgery. Urgent or prompt medical attention is generally...
An Achilles tendon rupture is relatively easy to diagnose. Based on the history, it is often obvious that there is a rupture – this usually involves a sudden onset of pain; a feeling of the ankle giving way; simultaneous foot dorsiflexion and...
An Achilles tendon rupture is often obvious. You know if you have done it, or at least, be very suspicious that you have done it. The most obvious symptom is a loss of power in the calf muscles with a sudden onset of pain, though a few are for some...
An Achilles tendon rupture is caused when the load from the calf muscles exceeds what the Achilles tendon can take and it ruptures. There are two aspects to this – the load and what the tendon can take. The load is the amount of force that is...
There are plenty of lists around the web of the “10 best shoes for accessory navicular syndrome”, but when I look at those lists I have no idea how they came up with those shoes and just what it is about the shoes on the list that make...
An accessory navicular is an extra piece of bone on the medial side of the navicular bone in the tendon of the posterior tibial muscle. There are several types of accessory navicular and variations in the shape. An accessory navicular can be...
The accessory navicular is an extra piece of bone on the medial side of the navicular bone. This study reviewed over 1000 x-rays and found an accessory navicular in 23.3% of them. Others have reported that the prevalence is more like 10%. It is not...
An accessory navicular is an extra piece of bone on the medial side of the navicular bone in the foot. It is not common, but when it is there it can sometime become painful. During the acute stages of the symptoms it is often helpful to immobilize...
The accessory navicular, (os naviculare accessorium, os tibiale externum) is an anatomical variation that involves an additional bone on the medial side or the foot near the navicular bone. This accessory bone is not common (affects few percent of...
Rhagades is a term that typically refers to cracks in the skin and is usually reserved to describe those cracks in the skin that occur around the mouth. However, the term Rhagades is used in some European countries to refer to the cracks in the skin...
