After you regain muscle control, it’s time to build strength. This improves your ability to put your full weight on your leg. For best results, warm up and stretch before starting. If your injury is recent, wait until swelling and pain decrease before doing this exercise.

The ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) is a band of tough, fibrous tissue that helps stabilize the knee. Injury to this ligament often happens when the knee is forced beyond its normal range of motion.

After repair of your shoulder joint, you may go home the same day of your surgery. Or you may spend 24 hours in the hospital. Take care of your shoulder while it’s healing and follow all instructions you are given. Full healing usually takes 3 to 4 months.

A Bankart lesion is a shoulder injury. It happens when there is a tear in the labrum. This is the fibrous cartilage that helps hold the shoulder joint in place. Surgery can repair this injury.

A SLAP lesion is a shoulder injury. It happens when there is a tear in the labrum. This is the fibrous cartilage that helps hold the shoulder joint in place. Surgery can repair this injury.

The shoulder joint is enclosed by a sheet of ligaments and other tough fibers called the capsule. During a shoulder dislocation, fibers in the capsule can pull on the labrum and cause it to tear. A Bankart lesion is the name for a tear that happens in the lower rim of the tough, flexible tissue (labrum) of the shoulder.

SLAP stands for Superior Labrum Anterior to Posterior. This means that the upper rim of the tough, flexible tissue of the shoulder (labrum) has been torn from front to back.

For many people, nonsurgical treatments are enough to ease shoulder impingement symptoms. But if these treatments haven’t worked, surgery may be an option.

The shoulder is made up of bones, muscles, ligaments, and tendons. Learning about the parts of the shoulder joint will help you to understand your shoulder problem.

Know what to expect as you recover at home from a lumbar epidural injection.