Joint Pain
Joint pain refers to discomfort or soreness experienced in the joints, often caused by inflammation, injury, or underlying medical conditions such as arthritis. It can range from mild to severe and may affect mobility and quality of life.
Subscribe to the BlogSevere 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
Hip Replacement Pain: A Frustrated Patient
I’ve blogged before on hip replacement pain, or when patients still have pain after hip replacement. Likely the most detailed study to date showed continued pain in patients who had hip replacement surgery-for example, on average 53% of hip replacement patients reported pins and needles 6 months after the surgery. Yesterday a new patient came…read more What Causes Shoulder Arthritis?
What causes shoulder arthritis? See that shoulder x-ray up there with that big bone spur in the bottom of the joint? That scares me. This past month or two, my shoulders have been aching. As a now 50 year old physician who loves to lift weights, maybe this shouldn’t be too surprising? However, I’ve also…read more Knee Nerve Pain? More Evidence that the Pain of Arthritis is Caused by Nerves
Is there such a thing as knee nerve pain? Your joint pain due to arthritis is caused by lost cartilage, right? Likely wrong. There’s been a mounting body of evidence that arthritis itself doesn’t cause pain, and in fact the pain of arthritis (and perhaps arthritis itself in some cases), is caused by nerves. The…read more Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome Infographic
The rewrite of the Orthopedics 2.0 book will take the form of various infographics which will introduce each chapter. The goal of this new format will be to provide an easy to read and graphical version of various topics and then also provide supporting in-depth text for each section as well. This Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome Infographic…read more
SI Joint Pain after Low Back Fusion
Low back fusions are a big problem. While a few patients who get their back fused really need the procedure to control serious instability, most patients get their back fused to help control pain. Recent controversies surrounding things like BMP drugs to promote fusion (which cause sterility in men), the fact that we American doctors fuse…read more Ankle Pain after an Ankle Joint Replacement
A doctor discusses how replacing a joint just based on how bad it looks on x-ray or MRI can lead to disastrous consequences. 
