Even though this year may look a little different, football and cheerleading are back! While most of the fans are cheering on the team at home, our cheerleaders are out on the field tumbling, doing the splits, and doing gymnastics. This acrobatic sport can lift spirits but can sometimes result in injury. We discuss the…
Orthopedics
Carpal Tunnel: Treatment Options
You’ve just finished whitewashing your old wooden dining set to fit your new farmhouse design and have started eyeing the rest of your furniture to refinish. But you start to notice pain and tingling in your wrist. It’s possible you got a little overzealous with the sanding, scraping, and painting and developed carpal tunnel. You…
Causes of Wrist Pain or Injury from Golf
Tall grass snagging your club in the rough, an unfocused swing that hits the ground, or repetitive practicing after a winter of rest are all ways to injure your wrist while playing golf. They can result in trauma, a sprained wrist, and tendinitis, respectively. We discuss the top causes of these…
Symptoms of Shoulder Arthritis
Do you ever feel pain in your shoulder that is worse in the mornings or while reaching overhead? Maybe you feel a painful grinding in your shoulder while throwing a baseball or shoulder stiffness when reaching to get plates out of a cabinet? If so, it is possible you are one of the many people…
Causes of General Shoulder Pain
Feeling shoulder pain after that tackle in practice? Or maybe you spent all weekend repainting your kitchen that farmhouse gray and are feeling a little stiff? Or perhaps you’ve got pain in your shoulder and have no idea why? General shoulder pain is common, and the top causes include shoulder impingement, rotator cuff tears, osteoarthritis,…
How Long Will It Take My Ankle Sprain To Heal?
You are on your morning run when you get distracted for a split second and you step off the sidewalk and awkwardly twist your ankle. Now you’ve got a possible ankle sprain and are wondering, “How long will it take for my ankle sprain to heal?” We know all you want to do is get…
7 Tips for Avoiding Shoulder Injuries
Whether we are at baseball practice, reaching for the mug on the top shelf, sitting at a desk, or painting a room, our shoulders are at work. Shoulder movements typically go unnoticed in our daily lives, and it is often easy to ignore shoulder soreness—hoping it will just go away. But we should take the…
TIPS FOR EXERCISING IN THE SUMMER HEAT
We all know the importance of exercising to maintain a healthy lifestyle, but it can be difficult to stay active during the hottest part of summer! You may find yourself putting off your workouts and waiting for things to cool down—only to realize later that you may be waiting until November. It’s possible to get…
ORTHOPEDIC ISSUES: MEN VS. WOMEN
As the medical field continues to improve and develop, it is increasingly important for us at ORTHOKNOX to identify trends and differences among patients so we can determine more accurate personalized treatment plans for each individual patient. Due to differences in structural anatomy, hormones, and genetics, some studies have identified some trends in injuries and…
ELBOW PAIN: TENNIS OR GOLFER ELBOW?
Both tennis and golfer elbow refer to elbow pain due to overuse of the arm and wrist, which can cause inflammation of the tendons surrounding the elbow. Tennis elbow involves the muscles and tendons surrounding the lateral epicondyle, or outside of the elbow, while golfer elbow affects the muscles and tendons surrounding the medial epicondyle,…