Tendons are usually resistant and elastic, but can sometimes tear and get inflamed. Usually, it’s athletes that suffer from inflammations in these special fibres that keep the muscles and bones in our body together. However, small accidents can also affect housewives, clerks and workers who repeat the same gestures and strains over and over. Let’s find out more about what the most common types of inflammations are for each kind of physical activity.

Nervous cough and even asthma can be symptoms of an issue that has nothing to do with the health of your airways. In the absence of a virus or other infections, the respiratory system can fall victim to so-called psychosomatic diseases. Medical science has tracked the evolution of these disorders, which start from the mind but manifest through the body. Let’s find out more about the subject, together.

Hydrocolloid technology helps preserve moisture around the wound, accelerating healing and promoting the growth of new tissue. These wound dressings can be used on multiple wounds, from superficial to surgical wounds, and for various lesions of the skin. Hydrocolloid technology is integrated in solutions for the treatment of blisters, calluses and corns. Let's learn more.

Nebulization therapy is a technology that has changed medication for respiratory conditions: compared to taking it orally, it provides complete absorption of the drugs, almost 100%, and it's less invasive than an injection. However, the effectiveness of nebulizing depends largely on the type of medication being used.

Diabetes comes in many different forms: some more serious, like Type 1 diabetes, while others are more common, like diabetes Type 2 or those connected with pregnancy, like gestational diabetes. All these different types of this condition have one thing in common: hyperglycemia, an excess of sugar in the blood.

Our body temperature is not always the same. In normal conditions it is 37° C (98,6° F), but natural variations are caused by such factors as sleep and meals, and others by the ambient temperature and physical activity.

Allergy is an abnormal reaction by the body when it's been exposed to certain substances, either by inhaling or swallowing, injection or touch. It results in an excessive production of antibodies and various symptoms, both respiratory or of the skin. Allergies are becoming increasingly common and can start at any age, as well as often being hereditary.

Asthma isn't a psychosomatic condition, or simply the manifestation of a mental disorder; it's a proper and very real respiratory disease. Over the last 10 years, however, scientists have continued to research the link between asthma and certain behavioural problems like common and well-known panic attacks.

So asthma and sports can't go together? Until the Seventies, any sort of physical activity was out of bounds for people suffering from this respiratory condition, whereas nowadays, even some Olympic champions are asthmatic. Here's the story about a difficult, but not impossible, relationship.