Managing PMS: Medicines

With your healthcare provider's help, you may find a medicine that works for you. Make sure you know how to use your medicine. Take medicines only as directed. And always read warning labels.

Clinical Breast Exam

Your yearly checkup should include a clinical breast exam. This exam may be done by a gynecologist, family doctor, nurse practitioner, nurse midwife, or specially trained nurse. Yearly breast exams help to make sure that breast conditions are found early.

Hamstring Curl for ACL Healing

Once you can bear weight on your leg without pain, start adding advanced exercises to your workout. Using gym equipment can be a good way to improve overall knee function. Before you begin, talk with a physical therapist or certified athletic trainer. Learn how to use the equipment the right way.

Wall Squats for ACL Healing

After you regain muscle control, it’s time to build strength. This helps you put 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.

ACL Rehabilitation: Stationary Bike

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.

After Shoulder Surgery (SLAP Repair or Bankart Repair)

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.

Bankart Lesion of the Shoulder Joint

The shoulder joint is enclosed by the capsule--a sheet of ligaments and other tough fibers. During a shoulder dislocation, capsule fibers can pull on and tear the labrum. 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 Lesion of the Shoulder Joint

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.