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 Therapeutic exercise can relieve pain and does not harm knee cartilage, nor trigger inflammation in people at risk of, or with knee osteoarthritis (OA) 
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 The belief that exercise is harmful for cartilage is based on misinformation.
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 People with knee OA must be reassured that therapeutic exercise prescribed to prevent or treat symptomatic knee OA is safe for articular cartilage and if anything, can possibly improve cartilage composition.

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 SUPRASPINATUS TEAR

A supraspinatus tear is a tear or rupture of the tendon of the supraspinatus muscle. The supraspinatus is part of the rotator cuff of the shoulder. The rotator cuff consists of Supraspinatus, Infraspinatus, Subscapularis and Teres minor.

Most of the time it is accompanied with another rotator cuff muscle tear. This tear can occur in 2 ways. Due to a trauma or due repeated micro-trauma.

The supraspinatus tear can be partial or full thickness tear. A partial tear means that the soft tissue (the muscle fibers) will not be completely disrupted. A complete tear on the other hand means that all the muscle fibers are disrupted. It is common that disrupted tendons begin by fraying and when the damage progresses the partial...

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YOU'RE SHOULDER SHAPE CAN PLAY A ROLE IN YOUR PAIN

The shape of the acromion process can play a significant role in shoulder impingement. There are 4 types of acromion shapes, which can be seen on Y-view x-rays  or MRI.

Type 1 (12%) is flat and gives you plenty of room to move your shoulder around.

Type 2 (56%) is curved downwards. It gives slightly less subacromial space than a Type 1 and is the most common shape.

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ANATOMY OF FEMORAL TRIANGLE

The femoral triangle, a subfascial formation, is a triangular landmark useful in dissection and in understanding relationships in the groin. In living people, it appears as a triangular depression inferior to the inguinal ligament when the thigh is flexed, abducted and laterally rotated. The femoral triangle is bounded.

Surface anatomy of femoral triangle

A. Surface anatomy
B. Underlying structures

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