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How to Prevent ACL Tears

A soccer player dribbles down the field and abruptly cuts right around a defender, only to fall to the ground clutching her knee. She reports a sudden popping sound and her knee “giving out.” She heads over to ORTHOKnox Urgent Care, and the doctors diagnose her injury as an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear. ACL…

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Physical Therapy for a SLAP Tear

A tear in the upper portion of the labrum where the biceps tendon attaches is known as a SLAP tear. SLAP stands for superior, labral, anterior to, posterior. A SLAP tear can result in shoulder pain, dislocations, and problems using your shoulder. It can be caused by repeated motions in sports or at work, a…

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Physical Therapy for Total Knee Replacement

You may need a total knee replacement if conservative options, such as injections and physical therapy, have not worked for your knee arthritis, pain, or alignment. You can go to the ORTHOKnox orthopaedic clinics in Knoxville, Tennessee, or Athens, Tennessee to discuss your options for a total knee replacement. At ORTHOKnox, your doctor may recommend…

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Common Basketball Injuries

You may be a professional athlete, be an avid basketball fan, or you may have just played basketball in your driveway over Thanksgiving and hope to get out and play some more. In any case, if you break basketball down into its main physical components, you have a series of fast sprints, passes and catches,…

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Physical Therapy for ACL Reconstruction

During this football season, we’ve seen a few football players go down with an ACL tear and hear that they are “out for the season.” So what happens between the time we see them go down and return to play next season? Most likely, they have had surgery and are following a rigorous ACL rehabilitation…

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ACL Tear: Symptoms

      It’s Saturday afternoon and you are cheering for another touchdown when one of your star players gets tackled and doesn’t immediately get back up. You’ve got that sinking feeling in your gut as they get escorted off the field and find out later that they have a torn ACL and are out…

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Top Cheerleading Injuries: Orthopedics

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…

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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…

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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…

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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…

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ORTHOKnox, Knoxville, TN
Phone (appointments and general inquiries): 865-251-3030
Address: 10810 Parkside Drive, Suite 209, Knoxville TN 37934

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Phone (appointments and general inquiries): 865-251-3030
1031 West Madison Avenue, Athens, TN 37303

OrthoKnox provides comprehensive orthopedic services, sports medicine, and physical therapy to treat and rehabilitate injuries and degenerative conditions that affect the upper and lower extremities, including the shoulder, elbow, hip, knee, and ankle.

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