Alternative to Surgery
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Subscribe to the BlogLow Back Surgery Alternatives: Try Deep Tissue Massage for Back Pain instead of NSAID Drugs!
Are there low back surgery alternatives that avoid drugs? The most common medications taken for back pain are NSAID drugs like Mortin, Aleve, and Celebrex. Most patients are blown away when I tell them how dangerous these drugs can be. After all, how could dangerous drugs be sold in the grocery store? Why are they…read more
Shark Cartilage Side Effects: Mercury and other Nasty Chemicals Detected in 15/16 Brands!
Shark cartilage side effects have hit the medical research world this week with a startling tale of toxic contamination. Glucosamine and chondoitin work well based on numerous objective MRI studies to help cartilage in many patients. One common source of these cartilage components is cartilage taken from sharks. Since sharks are sharks, there’s something gratifying…read more
Here’s Yet Another Reason You Should be Searching for an Aleve Alternative or Something Safer than Motrin
NSAIDs like Aleve and Motrin are dangerous drugs. Surprised? In fact, they’re so dangerous that the American Heart Association has implored physicians to look for an Aleve alternative or a Motrin substitute. While they have been associated in various scientific studies with a dramatic elevation in cardiac sudden death risk, now a new study shows…read more
Severe Buttocks Pain After a Fall: A Patient’s Story
On this page: RP’s story Diagnosing the severe buttocks pain Treating a hematoma in the buttocks RP is an elderly physician who I met in the most unlikely of circumstances. He was performing a life insurance physical on me and I noticed he had a cane. We struck up a conversation about his severe buttock…read more Can Stem Cells be a Long-term Alternative to Knee Replacement?
Can stem cells be a long-term alternative to knee replacement? I saw a patient in the clinic last week who I had treated two and a half years ago with a series of stem cell injections instead of a knee replacement. He’s a local physician and like many health care providers had seen one too…read more
Bunion Surgery Alternatives: Top 5 Things to Keep Your Foot from Becoming a Pronating Mess
Looking for Bunion surgery alternatives? You should be after seeing how badly Bunion surgery can impact your foot and knee in my recent post! This is part 2 of that post with ideas to help you stay away from the surgeon’s knife: 1. Figure out the Cause-All too often, we get into a quick fix…read more Hamstring ACL Surgery Complications: Problems in the Hamstring after Surgery
Are there hamstring ACL surgery complications you should know about? I recently blogged on research that showed that using your own tendon resulted in fewer ACL reconstruction surgery failures than using a donor ACL. Many of those ACL tendon grafts are taken from the hamstring tendon of the patient. The particular area that they usually come…read more
New Knee Replacement Alternative Video!
Knee Replacement or Knee Replacement Alternative? Can a simple video explain why you might want to consider a knee replacement alternative? One of my favorite books as a medical student was a series written by a physician artist who explained the musculoskeletal system in very simple ways. As you can tell from our videos on…read more 
