What you need to know after the injury has occurred: 1. 81% of individuals of all ages return back to sports after ACL reconstruction. 2. 65% will return to the same level of play. 3. Psychosocial factors may play a role in determining who returns back to sports. 4. There is as much as a… Read more »
Fifth Metatarsal Fracture
For every step you take while walking, 3 pounds of force is applied on your knee joint. So for example, if you weigh 100 pounds, when you walk, every step places 300 pounds of force on your knee joint. When you ride a bicycle you apply 3 pounds of force on your knee joint. Running… Read more »
1. Cortisone causes knee osteoarthritis. This is not true. The reason you’re doctor is recommending a cortisone injection is because your knee is arthritic. 2. A cortisone injection into a knee or shoulder joint will make me fat. This is also not the case. There is a slight systemic affect when you were given a… Read more »
– Heel bone / calcaneus – Collar bone / clavicle – Shin bone / tibia – Knee cap / patella – Funny bone / ulna – Back bone/ lumbar vertebrae body – Sit bones / ischial tuberosity – Thigh / femur – Knuckles / metacarpal phalange joints – Breast bone / sternum – Ankle /… Read more »
Nope! People that are flexible are not double jointed. They do not actually have two joints instead of one. What “stretchy” people do have is ligaments and capsules that surround their joints that have a greater degree of laxity than those of average people. Ligamentous laxity is key in certain athletes such as dancers, butterfly… Read more »
Orthopaedic surgery is all about drilling, sewing, crocheting, and tying knots. The image above is me tying down a suture outside of the shoulder. I am using a tool called a knot pusher, which really looks like a crochet hook. I then push the knot into the shoulder joint to tie down the rotator cuff… Read more »
The wrist is a super complicated part of your body. There are eight little bones that make up the wrist joint. Scaphoid Trapezium Trapezoid Capitate Hamate Pisiform Triquetrum Lunate
The medical term for growing pains in the knee is called Osgood-Schlatter Disease. Osgood-Schlatter Disease occurs in kids when they go through rapid vertical growth phases, typically sometime between 11 and 16 years of age. During this growth phase the bones grow faster than the tendons. The tendons tug on the growth plates were they… Read more »
Your biceps muscle turns into a thin tendon that attaches to your forearm. Rarely can the tendon tear off the bone, where it attaches in the forearm. When that happens the biceps muscle looks very flat and can migrate closer to your shoulder because the bicep muscles are no longer anchored at the end distally…. Read more »
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