A dull ache, especially when moving the affected limb or joint
What is Pain?
100
Taking aspirin, naproxen sodium, or ibuprofen.
What is Pain Relievers?
100
An electromagnetic wave of high energy and very short wavelength, which is able to pass through many materials opaque to light.
What are X-rays?
100
Avoiding activities that place excessive stress on your tendons, especially for prolonged periods
What is Easing up?
100
A localized physical condition in which part of the body becomes reddened, swollen, hot, and often painful, especially as a reaction to injury or infection.
What is inflammation?
200
Pain when a certain area of your body is touched.
What is Tenderness?
200
Any of a group of steroid hormones produced in the adrenal cortex or made synthetically. There are two kinds: glucocorticoids and mineralocorticoids. They have various metabolic functions and some are used to treat inflammation.
What is a Corticosteroid?
200
A medical examination to determine a person's bodily fitness or strength.
What is a physical exam?
200
Cross-training can help you with impact-loading exercise, such as running, with lower impact exercise, such as biking or swimming.
What is Mixing up?
200
The act of repeated action, performance, production, or presentation.
What is Repetition?
300
Abnormal enlargement of a body part or area not caused by proliferation of cells.
What is Mild Swelling?
300
Taking a sample of your own blood and spinning the blood to separate out the platelets and healing factors.
What is Platelet-rich plasma (PRP)?
300
A scientific examination of a sample of blood, typically for the diagnosis of illness or for the detection and measurement of drugs or other substances.
What is a Blood Test?
300
Taking lessons or getting professional instructions when starting a new sport or using exercise equipment.
What is Improving your technique?
300
A way of carrying out a particular task, especially the execution or performance of an artistic work or a scientific procedure.
What is Technique?
400
The state or condition of lacking strength.
What is Weakness?
400
A program of specific exercise designed to stretch and strengthen the affected muscle-tendon unit.
What is Therapy?
400
Placing your thumb against your hand, making a fist with your fingers closed over your thumb, and then bending your wrist toward your little finger.
What is the Finkelstein test?
400
Maximizing the range of motion of your joints.
What is Stretching?
400
A greater than normal stress or load on the body.
What is Overload?
500
The raised area that results from blood leaking from these injured blood vessels into the tissues as well as from the body's response to the injury.
What is Bumps?
500
A medical procedure involving an incision with instruments; performed to repair damage or arrest disease in a living body.
What is Surgical Repair?
500
An assessment procedure to determine the contractile strength of a muscle.
What is a Strength Test?
500
Strengthening muscles used in your activity or sport can help them better withstand stress and load.
What is Preparing?
500
Composed of or characterized by fibroblasts, fibrils, or connective tissue fibers.