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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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WHAT I DO: SURGICAL CONSENT
If I look back on 40-something-years of training and practicing medicine, I can certainly think of many things wrong with “the system.” But there’s so much positive, that it outweighs the negative, resulting in an amazing and wonderful career path for most doctors, and good treatment for their patients. That certainly was the case for me. But there were things. Things that drop the scale a little. And one of those things was the Informed Consent. I don’t know when this became a thing, but I do know that in my residency training, the need to obtain informed consent was drilled into our heads. We must get informed consent for…
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WHAT I DO: SOCKS
Do you find the overabundance of socks in stores a little confusing? Besides fashion socks, there are all sorts of sports socks, with different kinds of cushioning, different degrees of support in key areas, different materials, and a special sock for every activity. There are some which wick away moisture… A lot of my patients are wearing compression socks. Originally, they were used to decrease swelling, or to prevent blog clots after surgery. But now I see them used for pain and tired legs. For those who really need them, there is a science to the selection of these socks. But do we always need compression? No. In fact,…
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WHAT I DO: Don’t sit on my foot and ankle
Last week I had a couple of female patients tell me they felt a twinge in their knee when they sat down on their bent knee. Women do this all the time, and I honestly believe it’s built into our ancestral neuromuscular memory, because almost all of us do it, and it’s hard to stop unless you have a stiff knee or hip. You know what I’m talking about. You go to sit down on a couch, and like a giraffe, your leg comes up under you as you dump your weight down into that cushion. You’re getting in bed, and here comes that leg. Why do we do this?…
