It’s Time to Rethink “Wear and Tear”
Medical mysteries have always intrigued me. And it turns out that there is still lots of mystery swirling around osteoarthritis, a disease that is so common that it’s often considered a normal consequence of aging. Rates of osteoarthritis (OA) in the knee have more than doubled in the last 60 years, which is a mind-bending […]
A Pain in the Butt (Literally)
When patients come into my office and say that their hips hurt… they’re usually wrong. That may sound odd, but when I ask people to point where their “hip” hurts, they often put their hand on their low back or at the top of their rear end. While that area may indeed be called the […]
