Tag: injury

What is R.I.C.E.and why do you want it? Among the most recommended icing techniques for reducing inflammation and treating minor injuries is R.I.C.E., an acronym for rest, ice, compression and elevation.It's best used for pulled muscles, sprained ligaments, soft tissue injury, and joint aches.Applying R.I.C.E.treatments will decrease pain, inflammation, muscle spasms, swelling and tissue damage.It achieves this by reducing blood flow from local vessels near the injury and decreasing fluid hemorrhaging as a result of cell damage...

When you ask what arthritis is, professinals will tell you it's inflammation of one or more joints.However, you know it better as pain, swelling, stiffness, deformity, and/or a diminished range of motion of those joints! It is estimated that more than 50 million Americans suffer from osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis and other related conditions.Osteoarthritis is the most common type of arthritis...

In the case of Cerebral Palsy there is no one cause of this severe illness.There are many things that may increase the chance of this condition but won't cause cerebral palsy all the time.In the majority of cases and average of seventy percent, it results from brain injury before the child is even born this is known as congenital cerebral palsy this would be present from birth but may take months even years to diagnose depending on how severe it illness is...