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More Hip Resurfacing Side Effects: A Third of Hip Resurfacing Patients Have a Local Reaction to their Implant! 27 Aug 2013 | 05:29 pm
Are there hip resurfacing side effects? Hip resurfacing involves taking a metal piece and placing it on the end of the femur and then also replacing the socket of the hip joint. This configuration was...
Toe Cramps and Back Pain? My Mother’s Story 25 Aug 2013 | 10:31 pm
How do toe cramps connect to back pain? Most patients with toe cramps believe that they have some sort of nutritional problem, despite many of them actually having a low back issue. In these cases, sm...
Fat Stem Cell Arthritis Claims? Is Light Activation of Fat Stem Cells Just Another Gimmick or the Real Deal? 24 Aug 2013 | 10:33 pm
Fat stem cells and arthritis? This past month, I’ve shown that we have very little animal or human data that fat stem cells help arthritis. Despite this, there’s been an explosion in companies selling...
Blind Ankle Injection: 1 in 4 Times a Physician isn’t Really Injecting the Ankle Joint 23 Aug 2013 | 05:33 pm
Have you had a blind ankle injection? I’ve blogged a few times on the fact that blind injections (injections without some form of guidance like fluoroscopy or ultrasound) have significant miss rates. ...
Orthotics and Knee Pain? Big Study gets It Wrong… 21 Aug 2013 | 05:59 pm
Orthotics Knee Pain? I’ve blogged before on the debate over whether orthotics help knee pain or knee arthritis. A very large study that looked at foot positioning and knee pain recently found that the...
ACL Surgery Rehab: Does Aggressive PT Make a Difference after ACL Surgery? 20 Aug 2013 | 06:18 pm
Does really aggressive ACL surgery rehab make a difference? As you may know, we’re not big fans of surgery to replace torn knee ACL ligaments. This is because the ligament repair bears no resemblance ...
NBA Players Find that there is No Such Thing as Achilles Tendon Surgery Recovery-Why Are We Still Operating on Many Achilles Tendon Tears? 19 Aug 2013 | 05:51 pm
A recent study published this past week showed that NBA basketball players with an Achilles tendon tear rarely return to high level play despite arguably the best and most sophisticated surgical care ...
Carpal Tunnel Surgery Recovery: Does Cutting the Ligament Have Consequences? 18 Aug 2013 | 09:25 pm
Carpal tunnel surgery has become a standard surgical treatment for carpal tunnel syndrome, a problem that occurs when the median nerve gets chronically pinched at the wrist. The surgery is simple, cut...
Is Starbucks Killing as Many People as Cigarettes? New Study Confirms a Sneaking Suspiscion 17 Aug 2013 | 09:20 pm
I have said for years that one day, the studies will point towards Starbucks being a leading cause of mortality in the U.S. This week the first large study of that type appeared. It showed that men an...
Score Another Victory for Fish Oil and Arthritis: Fish Oil Reduces Rheumatoid Arthritis Risk in Women 16 Aug 2013 | 05:56 pm
Fish oil has had a great few years and a rough month. After fish oil was hailed by many as almost a miracle supplement for many ailments involving chronic inflammation like arthritis, this past mont...
