The area between your hips and your thighs is the groin. It’s claim to fame is the groin pull—a strain of the hip adductor muscles that run along the inside of your thighs.
Your chest, with its large pectoral muscles and curved rib cage, is the body’s armor, protecting your heart and lungs. And it's on high-alert for the slightest pang of pain.
Your urinary tract—made up of the bladder, kidneys, and urethra—is the body’s filtration system. It relieves your body of excess fluid, but also gets rid of waste, regulates blood volume, and maintains the balance of chemicals in your blood.
Walking, running, jumping! Your legs—home to the longest bones and muscles in your body— keep you on the move.
When your shoulders ache, it’s hard to shrug it off. But it can be your rotator cuff, your neck, your upper back, or your collarbone, making it tricky to find the source of the pain.
Our arm is a powerful resource. Perhaps that is why arm wrestling is a long-honored way to prove one's strength. It's also one of our most used body parts, helping us do so much—lift, move, push, hug.
It’s all in your head: thought, memory, pain, dreaming, moving, seeing, hearing, smelling, and loving. Truly—this is where it happens.
The back is engaged when you bend, twist, walk, sit comfortably, and even contort into the most challenging yoga poses. So it should be no surprise that back pain is one of the most common ailments in modern life.
Your abdomen is more than just your stomach and six-pack (for us muscular types). It’s home to many of your vital organs—your intestines and bladder, the reproductive system, the quirky appendix, and more. So when pain strikes, it requires a bit of sleuthing.
The neck is the passageway for life-sustaining body parts like the spinal cord, jugular, carotid artery, and esophagus. Yet it’s a part of your body that you probably don’t think much about until you get a crick, swollen gland—or a hickey.
Sex positivity includes keeping your reproductive organs as healthy as possible. Reduce your risks of sexually transmitted diseases by always practicing safe sex.
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