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• Joint Health and Nutrition

  A patient’s overall health and balanced diet are essential for joints. And joint health is crucial for living a happy, healthy life. Both diet and joint health are very closely connected and when one suffers, the other suffers as well. So if you’re...

• Best Sleeping Position for Neck and Low Back Pain

  When managing patients with spine pain, it is important to look at each person as a whole and help identify any modifiable risk factors that may be contributing to their pain. Sleeping posture on its own is unlikely to alleviate all of a patient’s...

• Understanding Arthritis: Symptoms and Treatments

  Consistent aching pains and swelling in your knuckles or wrists? You may be dealing with arthritis. However, arthritis doesn’t play favorites when it comes to which joints it attacks, so if you’re feeling those same aching pains in your knees, elbows,...

• Kennedy Hospital

  By the time most couples are just rolling out of bed, Chris and Henry have already put in a full day’s work. Happily married for 46 years, Chris and Henry aren’t content with just running the family farm. Whether it’s diving into the Polar Plunge or...

• Patellar Tendonitis

  Patellar tendonitis, also called jumper's knee, is pain in the front of the knee along the band of tissue (the patellar tendon) that connects the kneecap (patella) to the shin bone (tibia).

• Cartilage Injury Treatments

  In some cases arthroscopy can be used to 'smooth' the cartilage. Although new cartilage cannot grow to take its place, scar tissue appears. It is also possible to transplant some cartilage from an uninjured part of the knee. Another option is to remove...

• Lateral Collateral Ligament (LCL) Repair/Reconstruction

  More severe injuries with instability of the knee may require surgical repair or reconstruction. Repair may be performed for injuries within a few weeks if the tear of the ligament is from the upper or lower attachment. If the ligament is torn in the...

• Posterior Cruciate Ligament (PCL) Reconstruction

  Severe PCL laxity, which results in a knee with significant posterior translation is quite unsettling to the patient, especially athletes due to the shifting of the tibia during running. These patients benefit from a PCL reconstruction, which...

• Meniscal Tear

  The meniscus is a very important shock absorber of the knee made of a very strong substance called fibrocartilage. It protects the cartilage of the joint, keeping it from wearing out and causing early arthritis. A large percentage of our body weight is...

• Ankle Sprains and Fractures

  Sprains An ankle sprain is an injury to one or more ligaments in the ankle. Ligaments are bands of tissue, like rubber bands, that connect one bone to another and bind the joints together. In the ankle joint, ligaments provide stability by limiting...

• Minimally Invasive Hip Surgery

  Hip and knee replacement are among the most common and successful orthopaedic surgeries. The indications for these surgeries are well established and their overall success documented by extensive research. Substantial pain relief and improvement in...

• ACL Reconstruction Surgery

  The majority of patients who are active with sports or at work may require anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction. Because the ACL has a very limited blood supply, it does not heal and cannot be repaired or stitched together. Surgical treatment then...

• Orthopaedic Surgeon Zachary Douglas Post, M.D. joins the Rothman Orthopaedic Institute

  Orthopaedic surgeon Zachary Douglas Post, MD, recently joined the Rothman Orthopaedic Institute at the Egg Harbor Township, NJ, office. Dr. Post specializes in hip and knee arthroplasty and reconstruction, with a particular interest in minimally...

• Introducing Our Newest Joint Surgeon: Dr. Michael F. Harrer M.D

  Dr. Michael F. Harrer M.D, attended Princeton University where he received an AB in biology and played varsity football. He earned his Medical Degree from Sidney Kimmel Medical College in Philadelphia, PA and completed his Orthopaedic Surgical...

• Orthopaedic Surgeon Jess Lonner, M.D. joins the Rothman Orthopaedic Institute

  Jess H. Lonner, M.D. Orthopaedic Surgeon Orthopaedic surgeon Jess Lonner, M.D., recently joined the Rothman Orthopaedic Institute in the Bryn Mawr, Pa., Washington Township, NJ, and South Philadelphia offices. Dr. Lonner specializes in the treatment of...

• Featured Physician: Carl A. Deirmengian, M.D., Orthopaedic Surgeon

  Hip and knee specialist Carl Deirmengian, MD, recently joined the Rothman Orthopaedic Institute at Lankenau Hospital in Wynnewood. Dr. Deirmengian specializes in performing hip and knee replacements as well as other general orthopaedic disorders. He is...

• Non-operative Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) Injury Treatment

  Non-operative treatment, however, may be appropriate for those patients who are not involved in any type of sport activity, whose jobs are sedentary (such as sitting at a desk and do not require any type of lifting, climbing, carrying) and who do not...

• William Emper, MD

  Dr. Emper is a graduate of Harvard University and Harvard Medical School. He completed his orthopedic training at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital and his fellowship training in Sports Medicine at The New England Baptist Hospital in Boston. Dr....

• John A. Anderson, MD

  John Anderson M.D. is a Physician at Rothman Orthopaedic Institute. He completed an Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Fellowship at Duke University and was Assistant Team Physician to the Duke Basketball and Football teams. He also completed a Clinical...

• What exactly was Bynum doing in Germany?

  Newly acquired 76ers center Andrew Bynum has yet to make his on-court debut in Philadelphia, but he’s been the hottest topic around Doug Collins’ team this preseason. Bynum traveled to Germany last month for a procedure known as Orthokine that is...