Common Sports Injuries
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- Sprains and strains Sprains and strains — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, treatment, prevention of ligament and muscle damage.
- Bruise: First aid — How to administer first aid for a bruise.
- Knee pain — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes, treatment of this common joint condition.
- Water on the knee — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes, treatment of knee fluid buildup.
- Hyper extended knee: Cause of serious injury? A hyper extended knee may tear or detach some of the ligaments in the knee.
- Neck pain: Symptom — Overview covers definition, possible causes of this symptom.
- Neck pain — Comprehensive overview covers causes of neck pain and neck pain relief options.
Diseases/disorders
- Osgood-Schlatter disease — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, treatment of this overuse syndrome.
- Legg-Calve-Perthes disease — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, treatment of this childhood hip condition.
- Peripheral neuropathy — Comprehensive overview covers diagnosis, causes and treatment of this often painful disorder.
- Bursitis — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes, treatment of this painful joint area inflammation.
- Chronic exertional compartment syndrome— Chronic exertional compartment syndrome — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes, treatment of this neuromuscular condition.
Head
injuries
- Bump on the head: When is it a serious head injury? — Even a minor injury to the scalp or forehead can cause a large lump.
- Intracranial hematoma — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, treatment of this serious complication of head trauma.
- Concussion — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes and treatment of this common brain injury.
Chronic,
serious pain
- Back pain: Symptom — Overview covers definition, possible causes of this symptom.
- Sciatica — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, treatment of this acute back, pelvic and leg pain.
- Growing pains — Comprehensive overview covers causes, symptoms and treatment of this childhood leg pain.
- Leg swelling — Overview covers definition, possible causes of swollen legs and ankles.
- Sprained ankle — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, treatment for this common ankle injury.
- Shin splints — Comprehensive overview covers causes, treatment and prevention for pain along the shinbone.
- Dislocated shoulder — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes and treatment of this shoulder injury.
- Dislocation — Comprehensive overview covers causes, treatment of this injury to hip, knee, other joints.
Fractures
and separations require immediate attention
- Greenstick fractures — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of this childhood bone injury.
- Stress fractures — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, treatment and prevention of this common overuse injury.
- Broken arm — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of this common fracture.
- Broken wrist/broken hand — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, diagnosis, treatment of these types of fractures.
- Hip fracture — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, complications, treatment, prevention of a broken hip.
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Broken wrist/broken hand — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, diagnosis, treatment of these types of fractures.
- Broken leg — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, diagnosis and treatment of this type of fracture.
- Broken nose — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes and treatments of a nasal fracture.
- Separated shoulder — Comprehensive overview covers causes, symptoms and treatment of this shoulder injury.
Chronic,
painful injuries
- Rheumatoid arthritis — Comprehensive overview covers signs, symptoms and treatment of this inflammatory arthritis.
- Arthritis — Comprehensive overview covers arthritis symptoms, arthritis treatment and types of arthritis.
- Elbow pain Symptom — Overview covers definition, possible causes of this symptom.
- Bone spurs — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, causes, treatment of projections along edges of bones.
Treatments
- Cortisone shots — Comprehensive overview covers definition, risks, results of cortisone injections.
Nutrition
for Children - Pediatrics
Proper nutrition in childhood can
reinforce lifelong eating habits that contribute to your children's
overall well being and help them to grow up to their full potential.
Pediatrics – Nutrition & Fitness for Life | Boston Medical Center The Department of Pediatrics' Nutrition & Fitness for Life (NFL) Program is an innovative clinical and community-centered obesity prevention and treatment.
Pediatric Nutrition Handbook - AAP eBooks All the latest and best in nutrition support—in one place for quick and easy access! Prepared by the AAP Committee on Nutrition.
AAP Children's Health Topics: Sports Participation Each issue of Sports Shorts, published by American Academy of Pediatrics, examines a single sports related condition.
Pediatrics – Nutrition & Fitness for Life | Boston Medical Center The Department of Pediatrics' Nutrition & Fitness for Life (NFL) Program is an innovative clinical and community-centered obesity prevention and treatment.
Pediatric Nutrition Handbook - AAP eBooks All the latest and best in nutrition support—in one place for quick and easy access! Prepared by the AAP Committee on Nutrition.
AAP Children's Health Topics: Sports Participation Each issue of Sports Shorts, published by American Academy of Pediatrics, examines a single sports related condition.
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