You know how it goes. You take your body for granted when it works. Right? But when something starts to hurt, you mind starts to wonder.   How did that happen? What did I do? Is that something the body can fix—by itself? Do I need a doctor? Or physical therapy? And—will it go away? What if I ignore it?   Well, in the case of the writer of this anatomy-related blog, it’s the shoulder.   More specifically, and we quote from the report following an MRI: “There is a torn posterio

On the playground, they call them monkey bars. A child can swing from rung to rung—or skip a rung as reach increases and strength allows....

We all have our favorite anatomical words. Just for the way it sounds, brachiator is one of ours. Brake—eee—ay—tor. It rolls off the...