Rotator Cuff Tears Live! The video below is from a recent Facebook live that I did discussing rotator cuff tears and surgery. It covers some of what is in the text in our last blog, but there are also some other interesting things about treatment, so is worth...
Table of Contents If you tear something in your body, does it always need to be fixed? Hearing the words, “you have a torn rotator cuff” can be pretty scary, and often the patient believes that surgery is required to repair a torn rotator cuff. I have met many...
Fighting For Your Goals What brings you to see me? One of the first things I ask a current or potential patient is “what brings you to see me?”. People often say what they think I want to hear (pain, stiffness, etc), but the question is aimed at teasing out a much...
PSA – Can common medications affect your tendons?! Recently, I saw a runner in my practice who had an MRI-confirmed muscle/tendon tear. Although this isn’t an uncommon injury for me to see, the likely cause of this runner’s injury really shouldn’t be common; but...
How much pain is too much when I exercise? Last post we discussed the evidence on Kinesiotape and saw that it is not currently an evidence-based treatment versus regular athletic tape. It led to a couple of questions that we will discuss in this post: Should I still...
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