ATTR 1200 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Osteoarthritis, Bursitis, Epiphyseal Plate
27 Feb 2017
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Mechanical injury: trauma, a wound that occurs by force laced on it, mechanical injury, changing the state of rest or uniform motion of matter, ex: forces placed on your back that slips out of alignment. Deformity comes in you stretch past the limit every day. Traumatic v. s overuse: acute, something has ignited in the injury process, can tell what caused it with one event, direct blow, chronic, when it doesn"t properly heal, over time with multiple instances. Muscle cramps: over-firing, painful skeletal muscle contractions. Muscle guarding: after injury, muscles surrounding an area that causes a contraction in the muscle to minimize pain and limit range of motion. Muscle spasms: clonic- quick involuntary contraction and relaxations, ex: eye twitch, tonic- last a long period, increasing muscle tone that last, ex: charlie horse. Muscle soreness overexertion of exercises causing muscle pain: acute- feel right, delayed- onset muscle soreness, pain occurs 24-48 hours following activity (pain for 3-4 days can last)
