Patient Education

Do you have neck pain? Do you spend multiple hours every day looking at your phone? The two might be more related than you think.

Football season is back, and with that brings up the concerns of concussions. There have been many rule and helmet changes to reduce the risk of concussions, but unfortunately, they can still occur. So how do you know if your son or daughter has suffered a concussion?

Back pain can arise for a variety of reasons.

The diagnosis of a herniated disc can often be suspected from a simple description of a patient’s symptoms and a physical examination.

An epidural injection delivers steroids into the epidural space around spinal nerve roots to relieve pain – back pain, leg pain, or other pain — caused by irritated spinal nerves.

Scoliosis is defined as a side-to-side curvature from the normal frontal view of the body. In actuality, the deformity occurs in three planes: front-back, side to side, and bottom-top.

Vertebral compression fractures will number in excess of 500,000 this year.

Will my total hip or total knee need to be redone? This is a common question and is understandable given the history of joint replacement failures a generation ago.

As I approach 30 years of Orthopaedic Surgery practice, dedicated to hip and knee replacement in arthritic patients, it is interesting to reflect on some headline news articles offering the latest and greatest improvements in orthopaedic and arthritis care. – Dr. John Irving

Total knee replacement has been proven to be one of the best reconstructive procedures offered to patients suffering with debilitating arthritis over the past 30 years.