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Five Tips to Improve Your Joint Health

Have you noticed stiffness in your joints?  Do you want to lower the chances of injuries related to tripping and falling?  Are you worried about your limited mobility?  When you are struggling with joint-related issues, you will want to make a few changes to your lifestyle.  As an orthopedic surgeon in Deland, we have a few recommendations that have worked for many of our patients when they feel pain in their joints.  These are a few tips to improve your joint health....

Five Surgeons You May Work With

Seeking medical treatment is much easier when you know who you will be meeting with and who you need to talk to.  However, there are so many different medical specialists, and this makes it confusing.  When you are in the hospital for treatment, you may meet dozens of doctors and nurses each day, and this can become confusing to keep up with.  These are just some of the surgeons that you might work with when you are receiving specialized medical care. General Surgeon...

What to Expect at Your First Visit with the Orthopedic Surgeon

Have you just made your first appointment with a bone and joint specialist?  Are you unsure of what to expect at this appointment?  When you make an appointment with a specialist, you can first expect to receive highly specialized attention on the part of your body that has the issue or concern.  This also means that you will likely be given more answers than when you have generalized care.  These are a few things that you can expect when you first visit our orthopedic sur...

Four Tips to Promote Healthy Bones

Bones provide several functions in the body, namely giving structure, supporting muscles, protecting organs, and storing calcium. While it is essential to keep strong and healthy bones throughout childhood and adolescence, you also need to preserve bone health during adulthood.  Our orthopedic surgeon in Orange City is devoted to providing preventive, diagnosis, and treatment of the ligaments, joints, bones, tendons, and muscles.  These are a few tips to promote healthy bones. ...

Six Signs You May Need a Hip Replacement

Experiencing hip discomfort tends to restrict mobility. Typically, you may discover that you cannot participate in or enjoy some of your favorite activities. As a result, this can negatively impact your mental health.  When every movement you make throughout the day causes pain in your hip area, immediately consult a qualified orthopedic surgeon. If your orthopedic surgeon in Lake Mary thinks that nonsurgical treatments will not help your condition, it may be time to consider undergoing ...

Five Facts You Should Understand about ACL Injuries

Being an athlete poses challenges that you need to overcome in order to protect your body from injury, stress, and exhaustion.  Even the strongest, most agile, and well-trained athletes succumb to injuries that they may worked hard to prevent.  In the heat of the moment, accidents can happen that cause bones to break, ligaments to tear, joints to sprain, and tendons to rupture.  As an orthopedic surgeon in Deland, our sports medicine specialists work with many athletes that hav...

Four Common Questions about Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

Our hands play an important role in most of the functions that we perform daily.  Although they are strong and resilient, they may still sustain injuries.  One of the most common hand disorders is carpal tunnel syndrome.  This is when the nerve running down your hand, which is called the median nerve, becomes inflamed, causing pain on the nearby muscles, bones, and ligaments.  Our orthopedic surgeon in Deland can provide you with treatment options to manage pain and other ...

Three Common Options for Treating and Managing Your Arthritis

Are you tired of dealing with the pain and discomfort associated with your arthritis?  Millions of people suffer from the symptoms of arthritis, including the aches and pains when you move, the stiffness of your joints, and the overall lack of mobility you feel daily.  Because of the prevalence of arthritis, there are many treatment options that your orthopedic surgeon in Deltona can recommend to you.   These are just a few of the most common types of treatments to help yo...

Five Non-Surgical Treatment Options for Your Plantar Fasciitis

Plantar fasciitis is the inflammation of the planter fascia tendon that runs along the bottom of your foot.  This tendon runs from your toes to your heel, and the inflammation of the tendon causes extreme pain throughout the entire foot.  This can decrease a patient’s ability to walk, run, or perform daily activities on their feet, which will diminish their quality of life if left untreated.  Our orthopedic surgeon in Altamonte Springs has helped many patients treat and m...

How to Prevent an Achilles Tendon Injury

Did you know that the Achilles tendon is the largest tendon in the human body?  As the tendon that connects our calf muscles to our heel, it is important in the function of our feet.  Providing our feet with the ability to push off and move forward in motion, it is a well-used muscle in everyday life, but also in athletes.  Because of the importance it has in our ability to walk and run, it is also the most injured tendon in the body.  As an orthopedic surgeon in Orange Ci...