Author: Walker Wynkoop, MD

This happens when your median nerve gets compressed at your wrist. It’s called Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS). It causes numbness and pain in your thumb, index, long and sometimes your ring finger. This wakes people up at night,...

The short answer, yes. Most hips are made with a metal ball resting in a plastic cup. Modern plastic is specially treated to last much longer. In the average patient, 65 and older, these will typically last 15 or 20 years. By...

Dull achy neck pain, not burning tingling pain, that starts on the side of your neck and goes into the muscles of your shoulder is due to muscle spasms. The sore shoulder muscle will feel hard if you massage it, and it hurts to...

All of you folks old enough to remember that classic TV advertisement are at risk for a hip fracture. Hip fractures in folks our age are displaced and painful enough that we would not be able to crawl over to our cell phone a...

I have seen several patients in my career that come in for knee pain, but upon evaluation they have a relatively normal knee and a very stiff hip. It is common for the hip pain to radiate down to the knee, so even though the hip...