Hamstrings are the muscles located at the back of your thigh that run from your hip to behind your knee. Hamstrings make it possible to extend your leg straight behind your body and bend it at your knee. Healthy hamstring muscles should be strong and flexible to easily lengthen and contract your leg.
Cycling regularly improves both endurance and aerobic capacity. It also reduces your risk of cardiovascular disease and improves your overall health.
Dehydration is the excessive loss of body fluids. Find out the causes, how to tell if dehydration is mild or severe, and treatments for dehydration.
Find out about the causes and treatment of shoulder pain, including frozen shoulder, rotator cuff syndrome, dislocated shoulder and arthritis.
Struggling with Sciatica Pain? Here’s How to Find Relief. Most sciatica gets better within a few weeks. If not, there are treatments that may help relieve your sciatica pain.
Osteitis pubis usually causes pain in the groin, lower abdomen and inner thigh area, often related to exercise.
Groin strain commonly involves a partial tear of the adductor muscles of the inner thigh. Symptoms are a sudden sharp pull in the front of the groin, which causes a sudden pain and inability to continue moving.
Piriformis syndrome involves the piriformis muscle of the buttock compressing and irritating the sciatic nerve.
Shoulder impingement syndrome is caused by pinching of the supraspinatus tendon and bursa between the upper arm bone and roof of the shoulder.
Leg cramps are a sudden, painful spasm or contraction of a leg muscle. They often happen at night and wake you from sleep. Leg cramps usually get better when you stretch the affected muscles.
