INTRODUCTION Complex regional pain syndrome (CRPS) is a chronic neurological disease with a prevalence of 5.4 – 26.2% per 100,000 people. It can be categorized into two subtypes, depending on the absence (CRPS I, previously known as reflex sympathetic dystrophy) or presence (CRPS II, previously known...

INTRODUCTION The age of the population is increasing worldwide and is becoming an emerging problem in society. During the 50-year period between 1900 and 1950, the elderly population doubled in number in the United States of America (USA) – people over the age of 65 years comprised 4.1% of the US...

INTRODUCTION Tennis elbow, or lateral epicondylitis, is tendinopathy of the finger extensor muscles. This tendinopathy is most frequently found in tennis players. It was first described by Runge in 1873, and the term tennis elbow was first introduced into terminology by Major in 1883 [1,2]. He established...

INTRODUCTION Painful symphysis syndrome in athletes was, in detail, first described by Spinelli, in 1932, but literature also shows that, in the 1990s, Gilmore named this syndrome Gilmore’s groin. Other synonymous names for the condition, also found in literature, are as follows: symphysis syndrome,...