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PREVENT ARTHRITIS
Check out what I had to say about this important subject. We have very little control over whether or not we develop arthritis. About the only two things you can control are your weight and your activities. Remember the caveman! He walked and gathered stuff to eat. The closer your exercise program gets to that, the longer your joints will last. http://www.sheknows.com/health-and-wellness/articles/1018739/tips-to-preventing-arthritis-at-a-young-age
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FALL PREVENTION
You have to stay off the ground after 60. I’m not quite there, but I’ve been working on staying clear of the ground for years. I’m really focusing on falling down to the ground in this blog. That’s a fast and dangerous way to get down there and you’re all doing it way to often! Once you start to fall then anything goes. When you land you might break a bone, and depending on which bone, it can totally alter the quality of your life! But at best you’re going to bruise something that’s going to take a while to heal. In my practice I see a bunch of fallers…
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SHOULDER BURSITIS & IMPINGEMENT SYNDROME
I know you’ve seen me write about the numbers of patients I see each day with the various disorders about which I have written. If you add them up, they might come out to more than the number of patients I see each day. But remember that some patients come with several complaints! I just had to qualify that so I can now tell you that EVERY day in my clinic I see at least five patients with shoulder bursitis and its related disorders; rotator cuff impingement, tendonitis, rotator cuff tears and problems with the biceps tendon. First a little anatomy and physiology. We just got done talking about hip…
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HIP BURSITIS
I probably see four or five patients with this every day. It’s either the primary reason they come to see me, or they mention it at the end of the visit, as a scourge they’ve been bothered with for a long time. I’ve had it too…in both hips, and many women are going to get it. Ninety percent of the people who get it are women. It’s hard to get rid of. It’s very painful. Sometimes doctors tend to kind of ignore it because it is simply hard to get rid of and because it’s not really a destructive process. We just hope it will go away! You’re not going…
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ELEVATED TOILET SEATS
How many times a day do you sit on the throne? Obviously for women, it’s a lot more than the guys. Getting up from the toilet is not much different than getting up from a squat and you already know how I feel about squats. A couple of years ago I switched out every toilet in my house for the elevated toilet seats. In my house we’re all tall so it made sense to do it. If you already have issues with your knee caps, this is going to have a healing effect. If you don’t already have a problem with them, it’s just going to reduce the lifelong stresses…
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NANA AND POPOP ARE COMING!
Sometimes at the end of a long day in the office, my PA and I review some of the interesting cases we saw that day and often find ourselves saying, “I hope that doesn’t happen to me.” Often we can agree on a few things that will for sure keep us out of trouble; we won’t be riding motorcycles and we won’t be riding bicycles down certain roads and highways…three abreast. We won’t drink and drive. And we won’t do squats. Okay. If we just do that, we’ll significantly diminish our chances of ending up with orthopedic problems. But neither of us would say that we would never go take…
