Blogs

Click here for the Tennis Elbow podcast. Not to put too fine a point on it, but in Spring, tennis season will soon be in full swing. The legendary Wimbledon tournament, and all over the...

Click here for the Carpal Tunnel Podcast There’s numbness or tingling in your thumb and first two or three fingers.  Maybe it extends up your arm.  It may wake you from sleep.  And it could...

Click here for a Rotator Cuff patient interview Some years ago, I wrote a blog on rotator cuff injuries.  Since that time, an updated version appeared in my book, Making Sense of Medicine: Medical Matters...

By far most patients who come to me have either neck or low back pain. Nearly 30 million of us are chronically disabled because of neck or low back pain, and almost three quarters of...

Since 53 year-old Rosa was a child, she has counted the number of days each month that her head explodes with pain. Since 2008, that number of days has been 15 to 30 every month,...

Burning, stabbing, lightening-like pain in your face?  Maybe constant facial aching?  A few seconds to a few minutes of exquisitely agonizing pain beyond imagining?  It could be what’s commonly called tic douloureux or more technically,...

Because of its structure, your shoulder joint allows an amazing variety of motions. You can swing your arms around, lift them to the side/middle/front/back of your body, swing a tennis racquet or golf club, and...

The human knee is not a very smart joint: when anything unpleasant happens to it, and there are many such things, all it knows how to do is to get irritated and fill up with...

There are an amazing number of ways your feet can hurt: everything from broken bones to bunions to sprains and strains and more. And when your feet hurt, you hurt all over. One common kind...

  Do you feel as though the 4th of July fireworks are going off between your stomach, chest, and throat? How about a volcano belching up its fiery effluent into your throat or mouth? These...