what if hip surgery doesn’t work because the hip pain wasn’t caused by the hip?
The concept that hip labrum tears cause pain is relatively new in medicine. Despite that, the number of arthroscopic hip surgeries to treat hip labrum tears and impingement have exploded in the past five years. Have physicians become too zealous? A patient I evaluated...
knee arthroscopy risks are too great
Arthroscopic knee surgery is an odd hybrid of old-school “cut it out” thinking paired with new technology. It caught on like wildfire in the 1980s because doctors and patients alike were attracted to the idea of eliminating the need for large incisions required for...
what causes neck pain?
If you have chronic neck pain, you’ve likely heard many different reasons about why your neck hurts—from tight muscles, to bulging discs, to neck bones that aren’t aligned. What’s causing the pain is only half the battle. The other half is figuring out why it hurts....
do you really need that shoulder surgery?
Pain is the single biggest driver of elective modern orthopedic surgery. Despite this, research of the last decade or so has shown that surgery is really bad at treating pain. A recent study on shoulder surgery outcomes and rotator cuff tear biology illustrates this...
study links an invisible chemical to pain associated with a torn rotator cuff
The concept that a structural change such as a rotator cuff tear seen on MRI is causing pain is ingrained in modern medical thought. Doctors and patients alike believe this, but the validity of the concept is questionable. A recent shoulder study that shows that pain...Orthopedics 2.0
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