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If you read about orthopedic procedures, you’ve likely read about arthroscopic surgery. If you’ve wondered what exactly that is, you can watch this brief video from the MayoClinic.com. Just click on the TV screen below:
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A bunionectomy, or removal of a bunion from your foot, can be quite painful. It’s one of those surgeries that you need to have done because of the pain and discomfort the bunion causes - but you wonder for a few days after if the surgery was worth it.
In most cases, yes, the pain from […]
Carpal tunnel syndrome affects over 8 million people in the United States; women are affected three times more often than men. The chronic pain from carpal tunnel syndrome can cause difficulties sleeping, as well as with doing your every day activities.
If medications and bracing doesn’t help, surgery may be the next step in helping manage […]
In April, Tiger Woods surprised a lot of people by announcing that he had to have arthroscopic surgery on his knee. While Tiger is in incredible shape, the positioning and the strength it takes for his amazing shots have caused wear-and-tear on the knee that required repair.
What is arthroscopic surgery?
Rather than making a large […]
It’s a thought, isn’t it? If someone who is severely overweight and who has chronic back pain undergoes gastric bypass surgery, will the back pain be relieved as the weight starts to drop?
With the rising rate of obesity in North America, signs are that gastric bypass surgery will become more popular. Add to that […]
Hip replacements, or hip arthroplasties, have become quite common place. As more people are having them and some people younger than in the past, the demand is rising for better, more effective hip joints and techniques.
But, what exactly happens during a hip replacement surgery? What is actually done? This video from About.com does a wonderful […]
Joint pain and joint replacements are becoming much more common place as people stay active as they age. The problems that result in chronic pain can greatly affect how people live their lives physically, socially, and emotionally.
This week at Help My Hurt, I’ll be finding articles and informational pieces about our bones joints, fractures, what […]
I’m all for alternative or complementary medicine and I think it really has its place. I also believe that the stronger you believe in the therapy, the much better chance you have of it working. But - this kind of stretches it: Man Hypnotizes Himself And Has Bone-cutting Thumb Operation Without Anesthetic.
How could it NOT […]
When you’re in pain, it’s hard to imagine what life would be like without it. One man in England, 62-year-old Roger Riley, can tell you. He’s gone from suffering from spondylolisthesis, a condition in which vertebra in the lower part of the spine slips forward and onto a bone below it, to walking pain […]
Earlier today, I wrote about a procedure to extract an appendix through a woman’s vagina. So now, I find that a surgeon in France has removed someone’s kidney through her vagina: Hospital Clinic conducts the first kidney extraction through the vagina in Europe.
I understand the rationale and all that but - yikes! It’s giving me […]
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