Here are the most common knee replacement myths preventing you from improving your quality of life. Chronic knee pain can make simple movements such as walking up a flight of stairs or sitting in a low chair difficult. You may even feel discouraged when you cannot enjoy your favorite sports or hobbies because of knee …
Football season has just begun and already the injury reports are filling up. This, of course, is in addition to the end of the school year and the everyday home or work injuries that can occur at any moment. When injuries arise, so much of the sufferer’s focus goes to the daunting recovery process. Platelet …
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It Could be a Dislocation Shoulder dislocations are synonymous with sports such as football and hockey but if you attempt to brace yourself with an extended arm after a fall in baseball, volleyball or gymnastics, you could be just as susceptible to a shoulder dislocation. No one wants to sideline themselves because of some shoulder …
Who is a good candidate for hip replacement (arthroplasty), and how long should you wait before taking that route? Those are questions I hear almost daily. The answer is– no surprise here— complicated. It’s complicated in the way that hips, individuals, and lifestyles are complicated, each in its own way. First, there is the hip …
What is Stem Cell Therapy? Stem cells, which can differentiate into any kind of human cell, are harvested from a patient’s bone marrow or blood, or a newborn’s umbilical cord. They can be used to treat several acute and chronic diseases, and research is ongoing into stem cell therapy for other conditions, such as diabetes, …
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Delay or ASAP? It’s a question we hear over and over here in the clinic. « How long should I wait, Doc, before signing on for knee replacement surgery? » It’s a good question. The answer depends on each individual, his or her physical condition, age, lifestyle, and level of pain or disability. Generally, we recommend trying …
This oldest of sports injuries is now thought to involve damage to non-rejuvenating tissue. So it’s best to take care of what we are born with. It’s one of the most common injuries in sports medicine, the Achilles tendon rupture, or tear. This tendon, largest in our body, is formed from the medial and lateral …
Hip replacement surgery can require months of recovery and rehabilitation. With over 300,00 individuals in the U.S. undergoing this type of surgery every year, it is about time a new procedure was introduced to enable patients to be back to their usual abilities within a shorter time frame. Anterior hip replacement surgery is the newest …
There may be no more famous acronym in sports than the dreaded ACL— maybe because it’s so often followed by the word ‘injury’. However, the ACL is not the only part of the knee that can be injured. In fact, it’s just one of four critical ligaments that support the knee and allow us to …
Painful, debilitating, and with no quick fix, a broken wrist can prove very problematic. A Colles fracture is the name of an upward break in the large wrist bone. Typically caused by a fall or impact to the hand, they can be received by anyone at any level of fitness. However, three-quarters of all sports-related …
