If you’re dealing with chronic knee pain and didn’t sustain an injury, you may need to consider body weight. Osteoarthritis in the knees can be caused by excess body weight. As our bodies shock absorbers, the cartilage between our knees and thigh bones go through more wear and tear when we’re overweight. Losing a few extra pounds can go a long way when it comes to relieving knee pain.

By Richard Hayes, MD, Great Basin Orthopaedics

 

Some of us have genetically flat feet without much arch. We may wear arch supports or custom orthotics to improve our comfort when walking. However, there is a difference between a low arch or mildly flattened foot shape and what orthopaedists call acquired flatfoot deformity, or posterior tibial tendon dysfunction (PTTD).

 

PTTD is one of the most common problems of the foot and ankle I see.

After a double leg fracture, Alberto Gazzola is cooking again, both on the track and in the kitchen. 

 

The owner of La Vecchia Italian Bistro loves to let loose on a motorcycle, pushing his limits, and speeds of 170 mph, on amateur road racing tracks around the West. Yet it was goofing around on a 100cc dirt bike that landed him in the ER.

 

On Christmas day of 2011, Alberto was riding dirt bikes with a friend in Sacramento. A miscalculated turn resulted in another rider T-boning Alberto and breaking his left leg in two places.

Mushrooms can provide as much Vitamin D as supplements according to researchers. And Vitamin D is essential for good bone and muscle health. 

 

Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have discovered that eating mushrooms containing Vitamin D2 can be as effective at increasing and maintaining vitamin D levels (25-hydroxyvitamin D) as taking supplemental vitamin D2 or vitamin D3.

An orthotic is an insert that fits inside a shoe and is designed to decrease abnormal foot motion, realign the foot, restore balance and eliminate or reduce foot pain.

 

Shoulder injuries are pretty common. Each year, approximately 200,000 Americans require shoulder surgery to repair a torn rotator cuff and an additional 400,000 have surgery for related tendonitis or partial tears. Dr. Fyda, a Board Certified Orthopaedist who is fellowship trained in Sports Medicine, completes about 150 rotator cuff surgeries a year in Reno. Most of the injuries he and other orthopaedists see are related to the wear and tear of age.

Hiking on our Sierra Nevada trails, and even around our county parks, is great exercise and great fun, especially if you keep yourself safe and injury-free.

 

Before heading out, make sure that you are physically capable of going on a hike. If you suffer from arthritis or other joint conditions, check with your doctor first.