Category: Finger Pain

The biofeedback industry was born. Today several thousand certified biofeedback therapists teach the technique to tens of thousands of people with dozens of ailments. Thousands more people learn biofeedback themselves using small home devices and the instruction books …

You may not realize just how important your wrists are until one of them gets hurt. There are basically two types of wrist injury. One is acute, such as a sprain or a fracture. The other is overuse, …

You might think of a muscle spasm as a cramp that overstays its welcome. While a cramp usually relaxes its grip in a matter of minutes once you rest the affected muscle, a spasm can produce days of …

Repetitive strain injury accounts for more than half of all occupational illness. It can happen to assembly-line workers and competitive athletes, electricians and artists. Anyone who performs the same motion over and over again for long periods of …

Once you have pain such as in your back, neck, hips, and shoulder, you are likely to reduce your physical activity, and that ultimately leads to a decline in your strength and endurance. Unfortunately, without sufficient muscle strength …

Flexibility comes from having muscles, tendons, and ligaments that are long and elastic enough to allow for comfortable and safe joint motion. Good flexibility extends your comfort zone to safely accommodate your usual bending and twisting movements, as …

If you tend to have a lot of pain in the morning or if your muscles feel particularly tight when you wake up, it can be good to do some flexibility exercises before you get out of bed. …

No matter what you do, there are no guarantees that pain will not recur or become severe for a time. For some people, flare-ups and recurrences are frequent; for others, they are rare. They can be caused by …

Handling anger constructively is no small feat. As emotions go, anger is pretty intense. Situations that ignite anger – being blamed for something that is not your fault, for example, or being lied to – trigger the flight-to-flight-response, …

The wrist is an unusual joint because stiffness or even fusion causes relatively little difficulty, while if it is wobbly and unstable there can’t be real problems. The wrist provides the platform from which the fine motions of …