In the US, there are over 33 million musculoskeletal injuries, with more than 50% involving tendon injuries. (James et al. J Hand Surg AM, 2008) More than 1,000 tendons in our body can present with ...

A ruptured Achilles tendon can reduce a weekend warrior to a limping one. And there's no single right way to treat it. People who've suffered this common injury may fare just as well with physical ...

Morgan Potter, a physical therapist pursuing her doctorate in biomechanics and movement science at the University of Delaware, was recently awarded the Florence Kendall Award from the Foundation for ...

significant to me personally and something which is also very clinically interesting. The topic is proliferation therapy or “Prolo Therapy” Prolo therapy is the injection of an irritant solution into ...

University of Delaware assistant professor Karin Grävare Silbernagel (Physical Therapy) received a five-year, $2.3 million Research Project Grant (R01) from the National Institute of Arthritis and ...

Achilles tendinitis can be a devastating, yet common injury. The Achilles tendon connects from our calf muscle, which are both the gastrocnemius and soleus, to our heel, known as the calcaneous. When ...

The Golden State Warriors showed they are aptly named by beating the Toronto Raptors in Monday night’s Game 5 of the NBA Finals. But early in the second quarter, they lost superstar forward Kevin ...

1 School and Graduate Institute of Physical Therapy, College of Medicine, National Taiwan University, Taipei City, Taiwan 2 Department of Orthopedic Surgery, National Taiwan University Hospital, ...

The strongest tendon in our bodies, the Achilles tendon, is also one of the most susceptible to injury. Because it bears an extraordinary amount of weight when we walk, run, jump, and land, the ...

The Achilles tendon is the connection between the gastrocnemius (calf) muscle and calcaneus or heel bone. Its main function is to assist with plantarflexion of the foot or in terms of basic function, ...

Q: I suffer from chronic Achilles tendonitis. By way of background I am 57 years old and have completed 15 marathons, with the last one in 1993. Now that I am retired, I still think that I have some ...