Author: Walker Wynkoop, MD

Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is when you have numbness and pain in your thumb, index and long fingers caused by pressure on the nerve in your wrist. This wakes people up at night and can happen while driving or holding a phone....

Total knee incisions are so big! That is because total knee replacement replaces all three compartments: the anterior under your kneecap, the medial next to your other knee and the lateral compartments. A unicondylar knee (a...

Long ago, a knee that catches and locks was called a trick knee. A knee that catches and locks works fine most of the time, but occasionally has a sharp pain when it locks up. Trick knees that don’t hurt and don’t cause any...

No electric scooter! Electric scooters are good for patients with a bad heart or bad lungs or if they cannot walk. If the patient is well enough to have total joint surgery, then replacing the hip or knee joint is much-much...

That depends on what you want. Dieting properly means you will lose weight but may not feel like exercising. Exercising means you will gain fitness but may gain weight. It is difficult to both lose weight and get fit, so where...