Bothersome Biceps
Medgeeks with Andrew Reid
Medgeeks
4.8 • 996 Ratings
🗓️ 27 November 2023
⏱️ 11 minutes
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Summary
In this episode, we will go over some common bicep injuries, which sometimes can be masked as shoulder pain. The bicep is located in the front of the upper arm and is responsible for bending the elbow. Bicep injuries can range from mild to severe, and can be caused by a variety of factors, including overuse, sudden trauma, and underlying medical conditions.
Some symptoms of a bicep injury can vary depending on the severity of the injury. Such as pain in the bicep muscle, bruising and swelling, weakness of the muscle and/or difficulty flexing the elbow. Treatment options will vary from rest, ice, compression, over-the-counter medications and physical therapy.
Join Dr. Niket Sonpal helps everyone with this very common injury.
November 27, 2023
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| 0:00.0 | Being in health care, we put our bodies through a lot. |
| 0:02.8 | First of all, it's many, many years of training, |
| 0:04.8 | and during that time, we drink a lot of sugar, a lot of caffeine, |
| 0:08.3 | and we do many things to ourselves to keep us awake, like caffeine. |
| 0:12.6 | After that, we're in the hospitals, |
| 0:14.4 | we're in the clinics, |
| 0:15.4 | we're working administrative positions, |
| 0:17.6 | and so we're putting our bodies to more strain. |
| 0:20.2 | Some of the strain can be physical, |
| 0:22.1 | whether it be on our feet all day in developing plant |
| 0:25.0 | our fasciitis like we talked about last week, or it could even be things like having pain |
| 0:30.1 | in different parts of our bodies from transporting patients to moving various things |
| 0:34.4 | to simply just working and putting our bodies through a great deal of stress. |
| 0:38.6 | And with that can come shoulder pain. |
| 0:40.9 | Shoulder pain is a common complaint amongst many health care workers and it's more than just ergonomics, |
| 0:46.4 | which is the study of people's efficiency in their working environment and making sure that |
| 0:50.0 | they're not hunched over, they're not doing repetitive exercises, but one of the more common |
| 0:54.0 | complaints we see is shoulder pain and specifically biceps pain and biceps rupture. |
| 1:00.4 | So this week, I Dr. Nikit-Paul, your friendly neighborhood internist and |
| 1:03.6 | gastrantroologist are going to be talking about one of the things that happens to all |
| 1:07.2 | of us in health care, pain. More specifically, biceps pain. So kick off that |
| 1:12.0 | music and pick up those curling bars, just kidding put |
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