Glossary | Sprains

Sprain is a widely used term for an injury to a ligament. Sprains can result from overuse or trauma and is common in sports and in workplace or computer activity.

Tendon and Ligament Healing illustrates the process of ligament injury that occurs in sprains, as well as therapy techniques to promote recovery. In a sprain the ligament fibers can be partially torn and exhibit discontinuity, laxity, weakness and disruption of proper alignment. The ligament with a sprain will be congested with waste material, its fibers restricted by adhesions, and weakened by inadequate cross-fiber bonds.

The most frequent sites for sprains are lateral ankle, knee, wrist, thumb, and elbow. Osteopathic-style hands-on therapy methods to treat sprains are presented in Tendon and Ligament Healing. The author has developed an approach to improve the integrity and organization of the injured ligament as well as to increase its substance when it has been weakened.

The ligament with a sprain often contains a segment where the most tearing has occurred. Weintraub's new treatment model uses methods to strengthen and normalize the weakened zone through his technique of feeding in and separating the ends of the ligament. A variety of serious, chronic sprains in the book's case account respond successfully to this non-invasive treatment when medical diagnosis had declared the subject's conditions to be impossible without surgery.

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