Every year, we all make our lists of New Year Resolutions and promise ourselves to get in better shape. The truth is less than 7% of us will actually change anything. If you really want to change, then you have…
The rotator cuff is a group of muscles that help to rotate the shoulder and control the shoulder's stability. The most commonly injured tendon is the supraspinatus, which tends to get tendonosis or tendonitis. This tendon within the rotator cuff is the one…
Total hip replacement is a very successful surgery, but it's the last and final treatment option after we try physical therapy, anti-inflammatory medications, and injections for patients with hip pain caused by osteoarthritis or degenerative changes in the hip. The procedure…
This is the question everyone older than forty worries about and no one under 40 thinks they could possibly have. The problem with arthritis is that it is an irreversible disease process that often progresses and gets worse. What…
Arthroscopy is the use of a miniature camera to look inside a joint. Once inside the joint, procedures can be performed in a minimally invasive fashion. Historically, arthroscopy has been performed on mostly knees and shoulders. However, now due to…
For injuries and treatment related to shoulder replacement and shoulder arthritis, there's just not a lot of education out there about it. Patients will say to us, "What do you mean you could do a shoulder replacement?" People hear about hip…
Arthritis is the loss cartilage in a joint. There are two kinds of cartilage in the knee joint. The first is the meniscus cartilage which is a soft, rubbery cartilage that sits between the bones. This is more commonly torn…
Gel injections are one of the types of pain relieving injections that Westchester Sport and Spine performs for arthritis, mostly in the knees but, we've done them occasionally in shoulders, ankles and in the hip. Gel injections are really hyaluronic acid…
Tennis Elbow, which technically is call lateral epicondylitis of the elbow, is a partial tearing of the tendon where it attaches to the elbow. Tennis Elbow is on the outside part of the elbow and what we call Golfer's Elbow,…
What Pitcher's Elbow really is something called Little Leaguer's which encompasses two kinds of elbow pain. When you're talking about elbow pain and people who play baseball they're either younger athletes whose growth plates aren't closed or older athletes. The…
