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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

For the past 5 years I have had what my sports doctor called left Achilles tendonitis. He told me to do two calf wall stretches (knee straight and knee bent) and that’s it. And it’s seemed to work. As ...

January 12, 2010 — Injections of platelet-rich plasma (PRP), an up-and-coming treatment for chronic Achilles tendon disorder, or tendinopathy, does not appear to reduce pain or increase activity more ...

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 ...

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 ...

Complaints such as pain in the Achilles tendon, tennis elbow, swimmer's shoulder and jumper's knee are familiar to many young ...

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, ...

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, ...