Health Articles

What Is Dupuytren’s Contracture?

Dupuytren’s disease is a common and benign condition of the palm and fingers where the fibrous tissue underneath the skin tightens and thickens. As the tissue tightens, nodules and rope-like...

What to Expect With a Wrist Fusion

A wrist fusion involves joining bones of the wrist together to help improve their alignment. Typically, this surgery is performed as a treatment for arthritis in the wrist. It allows...

Top 5 Tips for Taking On Arthritis

Taking a positive approach to arthritis can make all the difference in creating and sustaining life-altering habits. Since arthritis is a group of conditions involving damage to the joints of...

Top 6 Ways to Exercise With Arthritis

Maintaining a healthy weight and activity level keeps your muscles strong and can delay joint replacement. But how do you help your arthritis when it hurts to work out? Our...

Understanding Fractures

There are typically only a few symptoms related to a fracture. If you or your athlete has suffered a fracture, the pain levels will vary depending on the location and...

What Is Sports Burnout?

Sports burnout is a response to chronic stress after the continued demands of playing a sport or doing an activity without the necessary or proper recovery periods. This can happen...

Tips for Planning for Your Recovery

Planning for your return home prior to surgery can help assure a smoother recovery. The following are some things to keep in mind when returning home from a joint replacement:...

Tennis Elbow and Treatment Options

While a large percentage of tennis players will suffer from tennis elbow at some point in their career, they only make up a small percentage of all reported cases of...

Understanding Hammertoe

A hammertoe is a deformity of the second, third, or fourth toe. This condition causes a bend in the toe’s middle joint, which makes the toe resemble a hammer—hence the...

Mental Strategies for Recovering From a Sports Injury

A sports injury may take you off the field or court for weeks. Beyond your physical injury, the discouragement of not being able to play may also affect your mood....

Potential for Youth Sports Injuries on the Rise

Youth sports provide children with several benefits, some of which include exercise, the chance to socialize with friends, and the opportunity to learn teamwork and discipline. However, sports also come...

Overusing Your Arms: 5 Injuries to Watch For

Overuse injuries are the result of small, repetitive forms of trauma to the structures in your arm. Whether you’re an elite athlete or work with a computer daily, learning about...

How to Spot a Rotator Cuff Injury

The rotator cuff is a group of tendons and muscles that covers the top of the upper arm bone, helping to hold the shoulder joint together. The structure allows the...

How to Get Back in Action With Your New Knee

How long do patients need to wait before returning to their lifestyles? Every patient is different, and recovery times will vary. When the surgery is complete and the patient has...

Preventing and Treating Wrist Tendonitis

Any time you see the suffix -itis, it indicates the inflammation of a particular part of the body. For example, appendicitis means inflammation of the appendix, and arthritis is the...

Rotator Cuff Tear: Signs and Symptoms

The rotator cuff is a group of muscles and tendons that covers the top of the upper arm bone, also called the humerus, and holds it in place in the...

Is Joint Replacement Right for You?

According to our joint replacement experts, you may be ready for a joint replacement if you’re experiencing the following: You have joint pain that keeps you awake at night The...

Lessen Your Stress for Joint Health

High levels of stress can cause headaches, disturb sleep, and lead to high blood pressure and depression. Coping with stress properly becomes even more important if you are one of...

MCL Tears Vs. ACL Tears

The medial collateral ligament (MCL) is along the inside of your knee, while the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is in the front of your knee. Your MCL keeps your knee...

Outpatient Joint Replacement

Your joints can take on a lot of damage throughout your life, leading to degenerative conditions, like osteoarthritis. Joint replacement is often the recommended solution for the pain and limited...

Is VELYS™ Robotic-Assisted Knee Replacement for You?

Robotic-assisted surgical systems are used in joint replacement to promote accuracy and control and to spare any healthy bones or ligaments from being removed. In preoperative planning, the imaging software...

Feeling New Without a New Joint

Bone, joint, and muscle specialists devote their practices to helping patients who experience joint problems. They have a comprehensive understanding of how your joints work and what causes joint pain,...

Don’t Let an Achilles Tendon Rupture Interrupt Your Life

The Achilles tendon is the largest tendon in the body. It helps you walk, run, and jump. But when the tendon gets stretched too far, it can rupture, resulting in...

Finding Relief for Hip Bursitis

Bursitis is the inflammation of a bursa, which is a jelly-like sac that holds a small amount of fluid and acts as a cushion between bones and soft tissues. Hip...

How Physical Therapy Can Help Your Joint Pain

For joint injuries and surgery, physical therapy plays a vital part in your recovery, helping you heal faster, increase your range of motion, and reduce scar tissue and pain. Physical...

Healing Heel Spurs

Heel spurs occur when there is stress and strain on your foot ligaments and tendons. Most people don’t notice heel spurs, and they are not usually visible. However, heel spurs...

Don’t Let Strains Put You on the Sideline

Muscle strains can happen while playing sports, hiking, running, or while performing everyday activities. They are often referred to as a pulled muscle and are caused when a muscle becomes...

Dos & Don’ts After Total Joint Replacement

After having a joint replacement, you may expect to be able to return to the lifestyle you had before surgery, but this can take some time. It is important to...

Don’t Be Sidelined by Ankle Sprains

An ankle sprain is caused by the stretching or tearing of the ligaments that connect the bones in the foot, ankle, and lower leg. Ankle sprains may be common, but...

Got Thumb Pain? Arthritis Could Be the Culprit

Arthritis of the thumb can result from an injury or normal wear and tear of the joint. For most women, thumb arthritis is not from a prior injury. While men...

Does the Shoe Fit?

When your shoes don’t fit right, your feet can be subject to injury or even permanent deformity. These problems include soreness, blisters, calluses, corns, bunions, and hammertoe. Wearing well-fitting shoes...

Getting Help for Heel Pain

Your feet are built to handle lots of stress. Sometimes, excess force and other issues can overwhelm the structures of your foot or ankle, leading to short-term or chronic heel...

Don’t Let Ulnar Tunnel Syndrome Stop Your Swing

The ulnar nerve is one of the main nerves in your hand that provides feeling and helps with function. Ulnar tunnel syndrome can result in pain or weakness and make...

Do I Have Trigger Finger?

You can move your fingers because of soft tissues called flexor tendons that are attached to your fingers and the muscles in your arm. These tendons glide through channels called...

Dealing With Toe Arthritis

While arthritis is very common in larger joints, such as the hip and knee, the condition can still occur in smaller joints, including in the foot. The most common form...

Avoid the Post-Pickleball Pickle

Pickleball is a great way to stay active and have plenty of fun, but as with any sport, it does come with a risk of injury. Even a casual pickleball...

Bump, Set & Spike Safely This Season

Volleyball is an exciting sport that requires players to jump, land, and move quickly. Because of that rapid movement, ankle and knee injuries tend to be the most common injuries...

A New Option for Shoulder Repair

Chronic shoulder pain can have a variety of causes, from severe damage from a sports injury or car accident to wear and tear of the joint’s structures over years of...

Beat Injuries to the Punch: Martial Arts Safety

Martial arts are a fun way for athletes of all ages to develop their mental and physical conditioning. Before enrolling, you should learn about the general risks involved with each...

6 Expert Tips on Using Crutches

Using a walking aid, such as crutches, is an important part of your recovery because it allows your foot or ankle to heal properly. Learning how to balance with your...

Biking for Better Joints: 5 Safety Tips

If you’re among the many mountain bikers and cyclists looking to ride out the COVID-19 pandemic while staying healthy, active, safe, and working on your joint health, then our expert...

Anterior Hip Replacement: What You Need to Know

People suffering from hip pain, arthritis, stiffness, or limited hip movement can choose minimally invasive surgery when a hip replacement is needed. Anterior hip replacement surgery is one of the...

Athletes and Meniscus Tears: The Need-to-Know Basics

In young athletes, most injuries to the meniscus are a result of trauma. The menisci are vulnerable to injuries that involve both compression and twisting across the joint, which is...

ACL Injuries Can Take a Toll on Female Athletes

It’s a trend happening on playing fields and basketball courts at an alarming rate: a young girl jumps or pivots and collapses in excruciating pain. In fact, teenage girls sustain...

Ankle Pain: Sprain or Strain?

Sprains and strains in the ankle are different injuries requiring different methods of care. Knowing the difference between these injuries is important. An ankle sprain involves a stretching or tearing...

5 Vital Tips for Hydration

Whether you are training over a prolonged period or playing hard during a competition, hydration can keep you at peak performance and help you avoid serious health risks. Dehydration in...

3 Ways to Prevent Gaming Injuries

Because of the nature of gaming systems and computer use, gaming-related injuries are typically overuse injuries, like trigger finger, carpal tunnel syndrome, and tendinitis. These injuries can cause significant pain...

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