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Colorado: Hip Pain Keeping You from Being Active?

June 21, 2017

3 Common Causes of Hip Pain and Answers about Treatment Pain in any load-bearing joint, like your hip or knee, can be very debilitating and have a huge impact on day-to-day activities and quality of life. And while minor hip pain can often be resolved with conservative measures such as rest, pain relievers, and ice or heat, more severe hip pain typically indicates damage to the bone, cartilage or supporting muscle and needs proper diagnosis.

Preventing, Diagnosing and Treating Denver Rotator Cuff Tears

June 15, 2017

Across Denver rotator cuff tears are occurring in greater numbers because of baseball and other sports that use overhand movements or mechanics (e.g. tennis, volleyball and track and field). While common in many sports, the mechanics of the movement are actually very unnatural and create stress on the stabilizing elements of the shoulder. Combined with the fact that today’s athletes seem to do year-round training and thus overuse specific muscle types, rotator cuff tears are

Spring Has Sprung! Are your feet sandal-ready? Why you shouldn’t put off bunion treatment.

May 3, 2017

Denver – bunion treatment can be the difference between walking with a spring in your step or nagging bunion pain that has you walking on egg shells. Bunion pain affects approximately one-third of the population and disproportionately impacts those who’s occupation requires long periods of standing or walking. What is a bunion? Bunions – bony bumps that form at the base of the big toe and produce a wider than usual foot profile – are

A meniscus tear can stall your soccer season: when it’s time for meniscus surgery

March 1, 2017

Snow may be covering many area soccer fields right now, but whether it’s club and high school spring soccer or the adult league you’ve been looking forward to all winter, off-season conditioning and indoor sessions have given way to the first days of outdoor cuts on turf and grass. It’s this time of year that, despite smart training, we see more patients for meniscus surgery, whose hard winter work has been quickly undone by a

Avoid the Most Common Skiing Knee Injuries When Hitting the Slopes

January 21, 2017

It’s time to hit the slopes! Crested Butte has gotten 112 inches of snow in January alone, and most of Summit county has at least a 60-inch base. But with all that fresh powder, it’s easy to get bogged down in a turn or just plain worn out. Common skiing knee injuries happen when people overdo it or get into terrain that is beyond their ability. But the good news is that many knee injuries

Foot or ankle pain? How to pick a qualified podiatrist.

December 16, 2016

Foot or ankle pain? How to pick a qualified podiatrist. Did you know there are 28 bones in your foot and ankle? That’s a full quarter of all your bones in your feet! Not to mention there are dozens of joints and more than 100 muscles, ligaments and tendons. All of this is to say that when you have pain, you need a foot and ankle specialist, known as a podiatrist. Podiatrists are physicians, but

Non-surgical treatments for knee arthritis

October 28, 2016

As we outlined in our first knee arthritis post in this three-part series, there is no cure for knee arthritis, so beware of ‘miracle cures’ that claim otherwise. If you have knee pain and think it might be knee arthritis, getting treatment can still reduce pain and minimize or delay long-term damage. There are many non-surgical treatments for knee arthritis, and your orthopedic doctor should first consider the most conservative approaches. This may include rest,

Will it snow soon? Why your knee arthritis lets you know and how it impacts your joints.

October 28, 2016

Did you know that in the past 60 years, it has snowed on either Halloween or November 1st a whopping 41 times? While it looks like we’ll buck the trend this year with forecasts in the 70s for both days, winter is still coming! Maybe you can even feel it. Are you one of those people who can tell when a storm front is coming into Colorado even before the local weatherperson can? If so, you

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