{"id":3334,"date":"2023-06-26T09:48:19","date_gmt":"2023-06-26T09:48:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/ligament-sprains\/"},"modified":"2023-06-26T09:48:19","modified_gmt":"2023-06-26T09:48:19","slug":"ligament-sprains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/ligament-sprains\/","title":{"rendered":"LIGAMENT SPRAINS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ligaments are bands of tissue that hold bones together at a joint. They are not very stretchy and are prone to tearing, especially when subjected to sudden forceful twisting.  <br \/> The injury may range from a minor tear, called a sprain, to complete rupture of a ligament.  <br \/> The most commonly injured ligaments are those in the knee\u2014the medial collateral ligament (MCL), anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), or posterior cruciate ligament (PCL)\u2014and ankle. <br \/> Symptoms include sudden pain in the injured joint, swelling, and restricted movement of the joint.  <br \/> Most minor injuries can be treated with self-help measures such as PRICE (Protection, Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation, and pain relievers. <br \/>  A severe injury should receive medical attention, as it may require surgery to repair or replace the ligament<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ligaments are bands of tissue that hold bones together at<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[16],"class_list":["post-3334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-med-signs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kidneydiseaseclinic.net\/kdc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}