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Proviso: This discussion is for knee injuries: non-surgical classifications as well as those requiring surgery. (If one is planning to begin workouts and strengthening of a non-injured knee the same principles apply but your baseline start will include an initial weight amount for resistance, often 60% of  One RM or NSCA calculator). Assuming you recover … Continue reading »

In previous blogs and videos, I have touched on various considerations for exercise positions and postures and keeping in mind the 3 F’s: Form Follows Function. During surgery, the surgeon causes trauma, through invading, altering, and repairing 4 kinds of tissues: soft – skin, circulatory vessels, nerves, and muscles;  hard – bone;  rubbery – cartilaginous; … Continue reading »

Chrondromalacia Patella (CMP) is a description for kneecap pain of the patella/femoral joint (P/F Joint). Pain is aggravated  with squatting activities, prolonged sitting with knee bent, and sometimes with VMO (Vastus Medialis Obliquus) “malfunction”. The knee has to be efficient and reasonably maintenance free. So when the orthopedist sees you, history again will likely reveal … Continue reading »

There’s more to the following conversation/dissertation about WHAT WENT WRONG and how you knew it, know it, and care for it. You functioned in an erroneous way. So you created a formation of pain and dysfunction needing attention. Hippocrates admonished: “First, do no harm”! He may have been speaking to physicians but it’s good advice … Continue reading »

The answer may be mostly yes. RTC is a typical abbreviation for this muscle group. There are several possible reasons for a person to have shoulder muscle pain. Through differential diagnosis, the orthopedic surgeon will likely figure out which ones. Refer to (Blog Rotator cuff 0723 2011) for a list of other shoulder muscles and … Continue reading »

Clinicians often hear people refer to the “rotor cuff” when the anatomical jargon term is rotator cuff. Essentially it rotates the humerus in or out and stabilizes the top of the arm (humeral head) into the shoulder socket (glenoid fossa). This is a fairly accurate rotator cuff presentation: I suppose it would seem odd for … Continue reading »

In the broader text, the meaning of  “broken” has multiple possibilities. Fracture is the term for a broken bone (always gets an x-ray). The surgeon will likely know the diagnosis simply from taking a good history leading up to the problem or complaint. The diagnostic devices, including: physical examination (appearance and feel), diagnostic ultrasound, MRI, … Continue reading »

Orthopedic Surgery itself is trauma. You may recognize a traumatic injury occurring when you fall, get hurt in sports, or have a car or work accident but you may not think of surgery (iatrogenic injury) as an injury/trauma. Your brain does, however, because it is wired to respond the way it did 200,000 years ago … Continue reading »