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IT’S NOT TOO LATE TO PREVENT ICE INJURIES
I should repost this every time it freezes in Texas. I’m a little late this year, but we’re still not out of danger in Central Texas. We never have big fat snowflakes, like they do in Boston. We get a cold front, which pushes in rain, and then like clockwork, it freezes. If it happens to freeze while raining, we get something akin to a snow cone layer of ice over our world, beneath which lies “black ice,” a particularly dangerous and dense form of ice which looks like water. Depending on the temperature, that ice can hang around for days and even a week before melting away in the…
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VOICE BANKING – A NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTION?
"I wish I had recorded my voice before I got ALS."
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HOW YOU GET YOUR GRANNY’S GAIT
A youthful gait and posture contributes to the appearance of health and youthfulness, every bit as much as the appearance of things like your skin and teeth. I often saw patients between the ages of 50 and 80, who complained of walking like their Granny, and they didn’t know how or when it happened. Sometimes a family member noticed. “Dad, you’re walking like Peepaw!” Patients who develop a limp after an injury or the acute onset of a disease process are well aware of the source, but the rest of us can develop it insidiously…a slow creep…and then it’s there. I like to talk about recognizing the onset of your…
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LADDER SAFETY
"If resposting this blog every holiday season saves one life or limb...I'm going to do it."
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5 EASY DAILY EXERCISES WITH BIG LONG-TERM PAYOFFS
Don’t wait to start having symptoms, and then start doing the exercises. Start when you’re 40-years-old, or as soon as you read this!
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NEW YEAR’S RESOLUTIONS
Looking back on my career, we all recognized the “seasons” of orthopedics. No, not like summer and winter…but instead, times of the year when we see surges in our business. I hate to put it in those terms, but let’s face it. Orthopedic surgeons get paid to treat a lot of conditions you bring on yourselves. So, you’ve got your holidays, when we start climbing ladders to hang ornaments and lights. That used to start after Thanksgiving, but now that Halloween has become less about trick or treating and more about decorating the house, I’d have to say that season starts in October. You’ve got winter, which refers to a…
