After surgical reconstruction of the anterior cruciate ligament, young athletes are now recommended to undergo at least a year's rehab and thorough testing before resuming knee-strenuous sport. Research shows that those who return to sport relatively soon after surgery incur a highly elevated risk of a second ACL ...
SRO's latest newsletter is now available for viewing and download (click image to download PDF). In this issue: Rotator Cuff Tears - Knowing the Culprit Anyone who is actively participating in sports - particularly those involving overhead motions of the arm - can suffer from painful rotator cuff ...
Just one hour a week of brisk walking -- as if you are late to an appointment or trying to make a train -- staves off disability in older adults with arthritis pain, or aching or stiffness in a knee, hip, ankle or foot, reports a new Northwestern ...
Low-risk patients undergoing a total hip replacement with a posterior approach can skip the standard hip precautions currently recommended for post-surgical recovery, according to a new study conducted at Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS), in New York City. Eliminating standard precautions in this population did not increase the ...
Santa Rosa Orthopaedics Receives Best of the Best Honors by North Bay Bohemian Every year the North Bay Bohemian polls readers to come up with "the best of the North Bay" in a celebration of all that is the "best of the best" of Sonoma and Napa counties. ...
Last year, while the new Golden State Warriors basketball center DeMarcus Cousins was playing with the New Orleans Pelicans he attempted to rebound a free throw and ended up in pain and went down on the court after rupturing his Achilles tendon. Unable to put pressure on his ...
It starts as a persistent and irritating pain in the foot or lower leg, then it gets more intense, maybe with swelling, and soon a runner knows she's being sidelined by one of the most common running injuries: a stress fracture. These tiny cracks in the bone can ...
Dr. Neema Pourtaheri of Santa Rosa Orthopaedics responds to TSR patient’s story of recovery and shares information on why this surgery works so well on older patients. Following three decades of a career in law enforcement Santa Rosa resident Michael Armstrong enjoyed being active over his 22-year stretch ...
In the article "Golf: a contact sport. Repetitive traumatic discopathy may be the driver of early lumbar degeneration in modern-era golfers" published today in the Journal of Neurosurgery: Spine, Drs. Corey T. Walker, Juan S. Uribe, and Randall W. Porter from Barrow Neurological Institute describe the biomechanics of ...
In spondylolisthesis, one of the bones in of the spine — called a vertebra — slips forward and out of place. This may occur anywhere along the spine, but is most common in the lower back (lumbar spine). In some people, this causes no symptoms at all. Others ...
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