| Patient Guide | Osgood-Schlatter Lesion of the Knee | Matt | 3 | 1 week 13 hours ago |
| Patient Guide | Tarsal Coalition | Matt | 6 | 2 weeks 3 days ago |
| FAQ | I had back surgery to remove some damaged discs and fuse my spine at L45. At the time, I was living in Colorado. Now I've moved to California to be with my adult children. The back pain never really went away. My kids have insisted that I see a doctor here for the problem. But the primary care physician doesn't seem to have any answers either. Should I keep looking? | Matt | 0 | 3 weeks 19 hours ago |
| FAQ | What is "failed back surgery syndrome"? I think I may have it. | Matt | 0 | 3 weeks 19 hours ago |
| FAQ | Is there anything new in the world of plantar fasciitis? I've had this problem for 10 years now with no improvement. I've tried heel pads, orthotics, aspirin, night splints, and steroid injections. Nothing has helped. Ouch. | Matt | 0 | 3 weeks 19 hours ago |
| FAQ | All my friends think I have plantar fasciitis. But I've had that before and this new heel pain doesn't feel the same. What else could it be? | Matt | 0 | 3 weeks 19 hours ago |
| FAQ | Sometimes the consumer craze goes too far. I don't mind picking my own doctor, but I want him or her to tell me what to do -- not give me choices and let me decide. I'm talking about having surgery to repair a rotator cuff tear. Please just tell me if I should have an open operation or go with the newer mini-open method. | Matt | 0 | 3 weeks 19 hours ago |
| FAQ | My younger brother had an MRI of his shoulder to figure out what was wrong with his arm. They found a torn rotator cuff. But the surgeon said it was inoperable. Why can't they fix it? | Matt | 0 | 3 weeks 19 hours ago |
| FAQ | Our 26-year old son is a professional baseball player with a problem. He tore his medial collateral ligament during practice. He had surgery to repair the problem, but it left him with a pinched nerve from scar tissue. Should he have a second operation to free up the nerve? We just don't know how to advise him. | Matt | 0 | 3 weeks 19 hours ago |
| FAQ | I had my right ACL repaired surgically 10-months ago. I was told it would be a slow process. I'm okay with that. But I wasn't really expecting it to still hurt after all this time. Will the pain eventually work itself out? | Matt | 0 | 3 weeks 19 hours ago |
| FAQ | I'm trying to decide between the two types of grafts they use to repair a torn ACL. The surgeon gave me the pros and cons for each one. I think I'm leaning toward the hamstring graft. Are there any new studies to show one works better than the other? | Matt | 0 | 3 weeks 19 hours ago |
| FAQ | My husband is a Division I college ball player. He tore his middle elbow ligament twice now. The first time he had an operation to fix it. Now he might need another operation. Will he be able to play again after this next surgery? | Matt | 0 | 3 weeks 19 hours ago |
| FAQ | My brother is a professional baseball player. (To protect his privacy, I won't name the team). He hurt himself and had to have shoulder surgery to repair a torn labrum. Right now, he's in rehab. I'm curious to know if he might not make it back on the field. | Matt | 0 | 3 weeks 19 hours ago |
| FAQ | I'm 18 years old. I play on a minor league baseball team. Until a recent elbow injury, I was moving on up to a higher level of professional baseball. Now it looks like I may need elbow surgery. What are my chances for playing getting back into the fray? | Matt | 0 | 3 weeks 19 hours ago |
| FAQ | I went to see my doctor for a steroid injection in the shoulder. She put me through an extensive list of tests in her office. When she was done with me, she sent me to radiology for a couple of X-rays. Then I got the injection. Was all this testing really necessary? Or is it just a way to drive up the cost to me? | Matt | 0 | 3 weeks 19 hours ago |
| FAQ | Whenever I reach my hand above my head, I hear (or feel, I can't decide which) a popping sound. Then it hurts like a son-of-a-gun until I'm almost all the way up, then it feels much better again. What could be causing this strange pattern? | Matt | 0 | 3 weeks 19 hours ago |
| FAQ | Our 16-year old son is on his high school lacrosse team. He's been having some elbow problems that we can't quite figure out. It doesn't seem like the elbow bothers him during practices or games. But afterwards, he complains bitterly of painful popping along the inside of the elbow. What could be causing this? | Matt | 0 | 3 weeks 19 hours ago |
| FAQ | Last winter, I fell on the ice and dislocated my elbow. My wife is an EMT and she was able to pop it back in place. I thought it was doing okay but now I'm noticing that every time I push down on the armrest of a chair as I stand up, there's a painful popping. What does this mean? | Matt | 0 | 3 weeks 19 hours ago |
| FAQ | Every year our kids have to see the doctor for a physical exam in order to participate in sports. Is this really necessary? | Matt | 0 | 3 weeks 19 hours ago |
| FAQ | I always thought my kids were made of "rubber." They seem to fall and never seriously hurt themselves. But I read an article that said millions of kids break bones every year playing sports. Is this because of all the junk food they eat? | Matt | 0 | 3 weeks 19 hours ago |
| FAQ | Three years ago, I injured my left hamstring muscle while skiing. I didn't have insurance at the time, so I opted to treat it with rest and stretching once it stopped hurting. It still bothers me, and there's lots of sports stuff I can't do because of it. Is it too late to have the operation now that I have insurance coverage? | Matt | 0 | 3 weeks 19 hours ago |
| FAQ | Our whole family went out water-skiing over the weekend. Grandpa is 69-years-old and fit as a fiddle. Even so, when it was his turn, he had trouble getting up out of the water and ended up tearing his hamstring muscle. He's had surgery. I'll be helping him with his rehab. What's that like? | Matt | 0 | 3 weeks 19 hours ago |
| FAQ | After I broke a bone in the middle of my foot, the doctor put a cast on right up to my knee. Wasn't that a bit of overkill? Could I not have just wrapped it and used crutches? | Matt | 0 | 3 weeks 20 hours ago |
| FAQ | I hurt the middle part of my foot one day; it felt like something was broken. It's ok now, but aches off and on. Should I have gotten it checked? My friends told me not to bother because the doctors can't do anything for those bones anyway. | Matt | 0 | 3 weeks 20 hours ago |
| FAQ | I know two people who had ruptured tendons, one had a cast and one had surgery and a cast. Why the different treatments? | Matt | 0 | 3 weeks 20 hours ago |
