surgery
Principles for knee rehabilitation – Part II – Endurance, Strength, Power
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
Shoulder Rotator Cuff (RTC) What Went Wrong?
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
Can you prevent rotator cuff tendinitis?
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
Healing
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
