In a cast, your wrist is immobile, but you can still move your fingers. Your doctor may even start therapy before the cast is off.
Healthy Bones, Joints & Muscles
Good nutrition -- especially calcium and vitamin D -- is very important to healthy bones and muscles, as is regular exercise and keeping weight under control. This lifestyle is especially important in childhood and teen years, when bone strength is developing most rapidly -- and can help prevent osteoporosis (brittle bones), fractures, and painful osteoarthritis (degenerative joints) later in life.
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A dislocated knee cap can be set into place by gently straightening the leg, and a brace and physical therapy will likely be needed.
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Fitting knee braces is an art, and patients are typically measured to find the one that's just right.
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Sunrise Hospital & Medical Center answeredSee All 3 AnswersMost of the time, popping in a joint indicates a tendon crossing over the joint.
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MountainView Hospital answeredSee All 2 AnswersThe best thing people can do to improve foot and ankle health is to have daily foot checks and wear shoes.
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Sigma Nursing answeredSee All 4 AnswersYou can take action to strengthen your bones and improve your bone health at any age. The two best things you can do are to eat foods rich in calcium and vitamin D, and to exercise. Eat low or nonfat milk or yogurt, green leafy vegetables, almonds and salmon. Regularly do weight-bearing exercise such as walking, running, jumping rope, or playing basketball.
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Discovery Health answeredSee All 3 AnswersMuscles will stop working without oxygen, especially if you are going to be exercising for more than a couple of minutes. How much oxygen your muscles utilize depends on two processes: first, getting the blood to the muscles; second, extracting oxygen from the blood into the muscle tissue.
When muscles are working, they take oxygen out of blood three times as well as when muscles are at rest.
The body can increase the flow of oxygen-rich blood to working muscle in several ways:
- local blood flow to the working muscle is increased
- blood flow from nonessential organs is diverted to the working muscle
- blood flow from the heart is increased (cardiac output)
- rate and depth of breathing increases
- oxygen is unloaded faster from hemoglobin in working muscle
These five mechanisms will increase the blood flow to your working muscle by nearly five times. So when the muscle is working during exercise, the amount of oxygen the muscle utilizes can be increased by almost 15 times.
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Joint misalignment has many meanings. In orthopedic surgery, joint misalignment is often associated with an injury, like a fracture or dislocation.
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Some of the things you can do to have healthy bones and keep your body healthy include avoiding smoking, exercising and eating the right foods.