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Q. I am a competitive volleyball player who has developed right shoulder problems. I have had pain in the back of my shoulder for the last two months. The pain is worse while serving or blocking ...
Volleyball injuries. A volleyball match between Poland and Argentina. Volleyball is a game played between two opposing sides, with six players on each team, where the players use mainly their hands to hit the ball over a net and try to make the ball land on the opposing team's side of the court. [ 1] Volleyball is played by over 800 million ...
Mis-hit: A hit in which a player swings but does not contact the ball as intended, giving it a different speed, direction, and spin than the player intended; On-Two: When the player making the second contact on the ball decides to play the ball over the net instead of setting up their teammate. Most often used in court volleyball by the setter ...
Olympic. 1964. In volleyball, spiking is the offensive play where a player swings the ball with their palm sharply downwards over the net and into the opposing court, making it difficult for the opposing team to recover the ball. The mechanism of spiking is unique to volleyball, but its counterparts in other sports include slam dunking in ...
Shoulder impingement syndrome. Shoulder impingement syndrome is a syndrome involving tendonitis (inflammation of tendons) of the rotator cuff muscles as they pass through the subacromial space, the passage beneath the acromion. It is particularly associated with tendonitis of the supraspinatus muscle. [1] This can result in pain, weakness, and ...
SLAP tear. Glenoid fossa of right side. (Glenoidal labrum labeled as "glenoid lig.") A SLAP tear or SLAP lesion is an injury to the superior glenoid labrum (fibrocartilaginous rim attached around the margin of the glenoid cavity in the shoulder blade) that initiates in the back of the labrum and stretches toward the front into the attachment ...
Orthopedic. Ulnar collateral ligament injuries can occur during certain activities such as overhead baseball pitching. Acute or chronic disruption of the ulnar collateral ligament result in medial elbow pain, valgus instability, and impaired throwing performance. There are both non-surgical and surgical treatment options.
Capsulitis. Joint capsule (articular capsule) Specialty. Orthopedic. In anatomy, capsulitis is inflammation of a capsule. [1] Types include: Adhesive capsulitis of shoulder. Plica syndrome, which is an inflammation of the articular capsule of the knee joint.