It’s a rare Monday during football season when I don’t see a least one player injured with a shoulder dislocation. While shoulder dislocation occurs in elite athletes, it’s frequently an issue for many aspiring ones too. Often teens in their final years of school, university students, or weekend enthusiasts, these younger players put their bodies […]
READ MOREClearing up the confusion around the bursa
The bursa is an element of shoulder care and treatment that gets considerable airplay. It is also prone to a lot of confusion. Clearing up the confusion is my intention with this blog. What is a bursa and what’s bursitis? A bursa is a tiny sac filled with fluid. Functioning as a gliding surface in […]
READ MOREShoulder Replacement Surgery: How Planning Well Makes All the Difference
It used to be that shoulder replacement was the kind of surgery best avoided, and if it must be performed, it was a treatment pathway to be embarked upon with realistic, even low, expectations for the outcome. Frequently compromised by premature failure arising from poor surgical planning and prolonged duration of surgery increasing medical and […]
READ MOREWhen Is Shoulder Replacement Surgery a Good Option?
Before deciding if shoulder replacement surgery, or arthroplasty, is your best treatment option on the roadmap to recovery, it’s helpful to understand what conditions it’s good for treating. Shoulder replacement would be considered when a person has long term and degenerative arthritis of the shoulder. Otherwise known as osteoarthritis, this progressive degeneration of shoulder joints […]
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