Movement of the elbow is mainly controlled from above by the shoulder. Should the responsible postural musculature no longer maintain the shoulders in proper alignment with the hips and spine, then the hinge joint functioning of the elbow will be called upon to compensate for a dysfunctional ball-and-socket joint of [...]

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Of all the joints of the body, the shoulder joint is the most flexible. This great range of motion is achieved by mounting a very flexible ball-and-socket joint on a stable, yet very mobile platform consisting of the shoulder blade and collar bone. Thus the entire shoulder girdle can be positioned up, down, back, and [...]

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Your feet are the mediators between your body and the ground. So they must be sturdy enough to support the body’s weight while being flexible enough to conform to varied terrain. Foot design meets both of these requirements perfectly by consisting of 36 bones for flexibility, bound tightly together by [...]

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The Rotator Cuff is a group of muscles and their tendons that connecting the humerus (upper arm) to the scapula (the shoulder blade). The four muscles of  the rotator cuff are:

Musculus Supraspinatus – The supraspinatus abducts, or elevates, the shoulder joint.
Musculus Infraspinatus – The infraspinatus externally rotates the shoulder joint.
Musculus Subscapularis -  [...]

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Bursitis is inflammation of a bursa.
Bursae – are fluid-filled sacs that cushion areas of friction between tendon and bone or skin. The major bursae are located adjacent to the tendons near the large joints, such as the shoulders, elbows, hips, and knees and heels. Humans have bursae throughout the body. When the condition called bursitis [...]

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Arthrosis is the most common joint disease, can affect all joints in the body.
Knee arthrosis (osteoarthrosis), the most common type of arthrosis, is a degeneration of the articular cartilage around a joint. When knee arthrosis develops, the cartilage undergoes gradual changes – loosing elasticity, hardening, and cracking, becoming more easily damaged and eroded by use [...]

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If we keep tensing the same muscle groups in response to emotional stress, then in time the bones can actually be pulled out of their proper structural alignment.

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