A Patient's Experience with Osteoarthritis of the Knees
As a hostess in a restaurant and an active person who loved biking, tennis, walking, gardening and traveling, Sally found that her osteoarthritis (OA) had a negative impact on her life. Sally's condition, which affected both knees, made it ... [... more]
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Minimally Invasive Total Knee Replacement
Total knee replacement (knee arthroplasty) is a surgery that is performed for severe degenerative disease of the knee joint. More than 300,000 people undergo the procedure each year. Minimally invasive total knee replacement involves the use of a ... [... more]
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Burners and Stingers
Burners and stingers are a common injury in contact or collision sports. The injury is named for the stinging or burning pain that spreads from the shoulder to the hand. This can feel like an electric shock or lightening bolt down the arm. This ... [... more]
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Hip Dislocation
A hip dislocation occurs when the head of the thighbone (femur) slips out of its socket in the hip bone (pelvis). In approximately 90% of patients, the thighbone is pushed out of its socket in a backwards direction (posterior dislocation). This ... [... more]
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Sprains, Strains, and Other Soft-Tissue Injuries
When you participate in sports and physical fitness activities, you can injure the soft tissues of your body. Even simple everyday activities can damage these ligaments, tendons, and muscles. Some of the soft-tissue injuries you are most likely ... [... more]
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Tips To Prevent Soccer Injuries
Each year, more than 477,500 soccer-related injuries are treated in hospitals, doctors' offices, clinics, ambulatory surgery centers and hospital emergency rooms. Use synthetic, nonabsorbent balls on wet playing fields. Leather balls can become ... [... more]
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Toe and Forefoot Fractures
Nearly one-fourth of all the bones in your body are in your feet, which provide you with both support and movement. A broken (fractured) bone in your forefoot ( Several types of fractures occur to the forefoot bone on the side of the little toe ... [... more]
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Exámenes de los nervios (Nervous System Tests)
Una electromiografía (EMG) capta y analiza las actividades eléctricas de los músculos, se utiliza para aprender más sobre el funcionamiento de los nervios de los brazos y las piernas. Por ejemplo, en caso de fractura del hueso [... more]
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Osteoartritis de la Cadera (Osteoarthritis of the Hip)
Como otras articulaciónes que soportan peso, sus caderas corren el riesgo de la osteoartritis, o desgaste de la lustre membrana, llamada "cartílago articular," que cubre el extremo de sus huesos. Esta cubierta facilita el [... more]
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Osteotomy and Unicompartmental Knee Arthroplasty
Total joint replacement (arthroplasty) is a common and very successful surgery for people with degenerative arthritis (osteoarthritis) of the knee. Two other surgeries can also restore knee function and significantly diminish osteoarthritis pain ... [... more]
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Knee Ligament Injuries
The knee is the largest joint in the body and is vital to movement. The stability of the knee mostly depends on the ligaments and muscles around it. Therefore, injuries to knee ligaments are common. In 2003, more than 9.5 million people visited ... [... more]
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A Patient's Experience with Synovial Cell Sarcoma
In April, 2001, 12-year-old Renee Mullins was living with her parents and brother in Hoxie, Kansas, a town of 1,200 people, about 240 miles from Wichita. Renee did not pay much attention when she first noticed a small, tender lump on her right ... [... more]
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