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• ACL Injuries on the Rise for Females

  reports NBC News. An Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury occurs when there is either a partial or complete tear of the knee ligament. An ACL injury can also occur when the ligament, or both the ligament and bone, detach from the rest of the bone....

• Five Facts You Never Knew About Degenerative Joint Disease in New Jersey

  contact often described as a “crunching” noise Development of a limp in cases when osteoarthritis affects the hips or knees Weakened muscles surrounding the joint Development of bone spurs as an associated injury Of course, pain is the primary and most...

• Ways to Reduce Pain from Hip Arthritis in Newtown

  result of erosion of cartilage between two bones, causing them to rub together. This happens most frequently in the hips and knees, since these are the body’s most significant weight bearing joints. Symptoms of hip arthritis vary from person to person,...

• What are the Top Cartilage Injury Treatments Recommended by Orthopaedists?

  Top Orthopaedists weigh in on Cartilage Injuries Cartilage in the knee is the protective covering that lets our joints glide comfortably. When a quick twist or sudden impact causes a tear, we realize the crucial job it does for our joints. When this...

• Before Surgery Always Do This One Thing: Pursue Nonsurgical Spine Treatment

  with your shoulders back and your head up! Lifting: Avoid twisting when lifting and keep your back straight, bending at your knees and hips instead. Working: If you spend hours per day at a desk, be sure that your chair is comfortable and your computer...

• Peak Safety: Snowboarding Injuries and Their Prevention

  are those of the ankles, sometimes known as snowboarder’s ankle. By contrast, the most common skiing injuries, are to the knees and thumb. While snowboarding injuries and skiing injuries are often different from each other, both sports can lead to...

• Tips to Avoiding Broken Bones from Winter Sports

  causes force to travel up the kinetic chain and may result in ACL injuries or tears. While ACL injuries are most common, knee injuries in general are a common risk for winter athletes, as the rigid, inflexible boots and stance often causes athletes to...

• Five Tips for Basketball Injury Prevention

  may wonder, what is the most common injury in basketball? Most often, injuries involve the joints, particularly ankles and knees. Before allowing these basketball injury statistics to alarm you, though, be assured that these injuries can often be...

• How to Prevent These Three Cycling Back Injuries

  carbon footprint when you bike to places rather than drive a car. Additionally, if you have an orthopaedic condition in your knees, cycling is a great cardiovascular exercise that puts less pressure on the knees than other exercise forms, like running....

• Introducing Same-Day Joint Replacement

  minimizing the disruption to your life. That’s the thinking that drove us to develop same-day surgery techniques for hips, knees, ankles and shoulders, with the goal of getting you in and out quickly. Back to your own bed, your own home, your own...

• Joint Health and Nutrition

  post-surgery. Research has shown that just one pound of weight loss can relieve four pounds of pressure from the knees. Imagine what a five or ten pound weight loss which relieves twenty to forty pounds of pressure off your knees would feel like. Every...

• Best Sleeping Position for Neck and Low Back Pain

  If a patient has pain in their lower back when lying flat on their back, it may be helpful to place a pillow under their knees whensleeping. This can take some pressure off the low back and may provide some relief of their symptoms. Side-lying Sleeping...

• Understanding Arthritis: Symptoms and Treatments

  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, ankles, or any other joint in the body, arthritis may be the culprit. In fact, there are more than 100 different types...

• Kennedy Hospital

  Whether it’s diving into the Polar Plunge or traveling the globe on vacation, even their leisure time is active. So when knee troubles tried to slow them both down, they went to Rothman. From the second they arrived at Kennedy Hospital and met their...

• 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

  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 some normal cartilage cells, reproduce them in a lab and then later reimplant them into the...

• 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...

• 7 Tips from Summer Runners for Beach Running Injury Prevention

  or worse. What to do if you get an injury The most common injuries incurred from running on the beach include: Ankle and knee strains and sprains Runner’s knee Torn or damaged meniscus Plantar fasciitis and/or heelspurs Stress fractures of the foot or...

• 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...