According to the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission, about two million Americans visit emergency rooms (ERs) with a sports injury in any given year. Plus, approximately six to eight million more people experience milder injuries while exercising or playing sports. Certain sports tend to cause the most injuries. Let’s talk about what they are and…
Food is the fuel that keeps all of us moving, and excellent nutrition can actually enhance your sports performance. Even better, eating healthy will improve your health and help maintain it as the years go by. The Basics: Essential Nutrition for Performance To perform at your best during physical activity, you must have enough of these: Carbohydrates…
Bone, muscle, and joint pain can be debilitating – keeping sufferers from enjoying a normal life. Orthopedic doctors are specially trained to diagnose and treat these types of musculoskeletal conditions. Since these ailments can afflict everyone from infants to “weekend warriors” who are training for their next marathon, there are a variety of specialties in the field…
There were almost three million workplace injuries in the United States, in 2015. This means that if you are employed somewhere, especially if your work is in any way dangerous such as construction, or other industrial jobs, there is a good chance that you may be prone to suffering an injury on the job. If you have…
Your ankle is one of the most important joints in your body. It’s also one of the most susceptible to injury. The ankle supports most of your body weight – which is why ankle sprains are quite common injuries. In fact, there’s a good chance that you’ll sustain an ankle sprain at some point in…
If you’re feeling inflammation and pain in the soft tissue around your elbow, wrist, hip, knee, or ankle, you may think it’s tendinitis when it’s really bursitis – or vice versa. Tendinitis and bursitis are two very similar conditions that involve inflammation of the soft tissue around muscles and bones, most often around your joints.…
Do your feet hurt? If you have pain when walking that refuses to go away, even by staying off it or wearing orthopedic shoes, you might have a condition called plantar fibroma. A plantar fibroma is a painful benign lump that appears on the bottom of the foot. The nodule can appear at any time during…
Certainly, the builders of Stonehenge or the sculptors of the large stone facades on Easter Island had no idea there was a medical term for the condition that describes the damage and pain that impacts muscles, nerves, ligaments, and tendons caused by overuse or improper technique from performing manual labor or tasks that involve repetitive…
If you golf, play tennis, run, or put repetitive strain on any of your joints, you may develop tendonitis. It’s a condition in which the tissue that connects muscles in your forearm, shoulder, wrist, ankle or kneecap becomes inflamed from overuse. Tendonitis comes in many forms, including tennis and golfer’s elbow, swimmer’s shoulder, Achilles tendinitis, and…
If you’ve been injured at work, an orthopedic surgeon can help you heal, restore lost functionality, and get back to work as soon as possible. Back, neck, and hip injuries are among the most common workplace injuries. These occur in jobs requiring the moving or lifting of heavy objects – but, really, orthopedic injuries sustained in…
