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 ...

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 ...

The Achilles tendon rupture is the scourge of athletes everywhere — professional and amateur, young and old, serious competitors and weekend warriors. Last week I discussed the definition, signs and ...

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 ...

As most sports enthusiasts know, in 2021 golf great Tiger Woods ruptured his Achilles tendon while training at home. In 2023, Aaron Rodgers, a former Green Bay Packers quarterback, did the same in the ...

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LONDON — It’s a weekend warrior’s nightmare. You’re playing hoops in the driveway and go up for a lay-up. You land and hear a pop: you’ve torn your Achilles tendon. Do you have surgery or hope it ...

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, ...