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  • FAQs: Total Shoulder Replacement

    is a serious risk of any surgery, including shoulder replacement surgery. The risk of infection is typically low, but it can be serious if it does occur. Infection can lead to pain, swelling, redness, and warmth around the incision site. It can also...

  • Valuable Tips for Patients Managing Their Rotator Cuff Injury Recovery

    When lifting your arms to put on a sweater feels like a chore and all your dishes need to be placed on the lowest shelf due to shoulder pain, your rotator cuff injury is obviously impairing your daily activities. What may not be so obvious is the...

  • Hip Replacement vs Hip Resurfacing

    a serious risk of any surgery, including hip resurfacing or replacement surgery. The risk of infection is typically low, but it can be serious if it does occur. Infection can lead to pain, swelling, redness, and warmth around the incision site. It can...

  • Fusion for Cervical, Thoracic and Lumbar Trauma

    fusion surgery. It is a major surgery that is performed only when all more conservative treatment measures have failed, but it can help people suffering from chronic back pain or severe spinal deformities live normal lives again. Now, orthopaedic spine...

  • Your Questions Answered by Bilateral Total Knee Arthroplasty Physicians

    Have you experienced severe pain in both of your knees? Does the pain and stiffness of arthritis keep you from doing the things you love? Is it beginning to interfere with even simple actions like standing or walking? If this pain and limitation has...

  • Discover How Patients With Degenerative Joint Disease In Delaware Are Getting The Best Care

    If you or someone you love is suffering from degenerative joint disease in Delaware, now is the time to get the facts, and the help, you need. At Rothman Orthopaedic Institute, our orthopaedic experts want to help you discover the steps you should take...

  • How to Prepare for Anterior Cervical Fusion Surgery

    When something goes wrong in the cervical region of the spine, it is often the result of a herniated disc compressing a cervical nerve as it exits the spinal canal. The symptom that is often most noticeable is severe arm pain, but some patients also...

  • Thumb Twitching: Causes and Common Triggers

    Twitching. Essential Tremor: repeated movement of a body part with a consistent frequency. The cause of this is unknown but it can run in families and is typically benign. Neurological Disorders (Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), Parkinson’s...

  • Your doctor recommends Back Surgery? What Now?

    Your doctor recommends Back Surgery? What Now? Your spine is a very important part of your body. Not only does it provide the support that your body needs in order to stand and walk upright, as well as supporting your head and enabling the body to...

  • When is carpal tunnel syndrome bad enough for surgery?

    is rarely needed following carpal tunnel release surgery. The surgery overall has a greater than 90% success rate, but it can take up to 1 year to see symptom relief after the surgery. Some patients do not get complete relief of their symptoms if the...

  • Common Injuries and Treatment Options for Tennis Injuries

    The U.S Open, the last tennis major of the year, starts this week, putting tennis at the front of sports fans’ minds for two solid weeks. It also makes it a great time to discuss the most common injuries we treat in tennis players—from pros to the...

  • Malcolm - Hip Replacement

    Malcolm's Adventure By Malcolm Watts My story starts in Assateague, the Maryland seashore State Park, where my wife and I were on vacation with our daughter Beth and grand-children, enjoying sharing the beach with the wild ponies that live there....

  • Wondering What Causes Volleyball Injuries? The Critical Info You Need

    Understanding what causes volleyball injuries is key to preventing them. Volleyball is a fun and exciting sport. And no one wants their fun and excitement interrupted by an injury. Most people don’t think of volleyball as a particularly injury-prone...

  • The Good News About Increasing High School Concussion Rates

    If you’re a parent, it seems like your list of cares grows daily. With every stage in your child’s life, there comes new ways to possibly destroy their chances of a happy and successful future. You have to weigh issues such as private school vs. public...

  • Sunny Skies and Exercise: How to Avoid Common Injuries to Your Upper Extremities in the Gym

    While it’s always a good time to get or stay active, spring is the season of growth and new beginnings for all things, especially for all of us trying to get in shape for the summer. And as the weather warms up, our sleeves get shorter and shorter. As...

  • Foot Injuries and the Martial Arts

    Individuals participating in martial arts unfortunately experience injuries when training for an extended period of time. Muscle strains, tendon ruptures, and broken bones become all to familiar to hard working martial artists. When these type of...

  • Meniscus Tear Treatments to Get You Back on Your Feet

    happen when you twist your knee sharply without moving your foot the same direction. This is most common for athletes, but it can happen to anyone, even when doing regular tasks like standing up. These injuries can be acute, happening in the moment, or...

  • Four Hidden Common Swimming Injuries and Their Prevention

    the sport. A concussion is a traumatic brain injury that occurs due to impact. The impact can be directly to the head, but it can also occur elsewhere and cause sufficient jarring to the brain. These injuries can occur through impact with a pool wall or...

  • Treatment options for Osteoarthritis of the Hip

    your hips carry, the more painful hip arthritis will be. It is a difficult thing to lose weight in a meaningful way, but it can have a drastic improvement on your hip pain. Physical Therapy: Patients with hip arthritis typically have weakness in the...

  • Skating Injuries: Five Risks and Five Safety Tips

    instinct is to put our hands out to catch ourselves--which is good, because it protects the more important head and face. But it can also result in serious injury to the hand or wrist from the force of the impact. Four Key Skating Injuries Safety Tips...


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