Category: WOW – Wynkoop’s Ortho Wisdom

If you want to go to medical school, don’t major in pre-med—minor in pre-med and major in something completely different that you love. If you major in pre-med, your application will be with hundreds of other pre-med or biology...

Weight-bearing cartilage is attached to the ends of your bones. Traumatic injuries can cause a small area of damage in otherwise excellent cartilage. The name of the damage is Osteochondritis Dissecans (OCD), Dissecans means...

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...

Trigger fingers are caused by a swollen bump in your flexor tendon getting stuck under the band that holds your tendon against the bone. If your trigger finger is often stuck in the morning upon waking up, it can be very painful...

Cubital tunnel syndrome is pinching of the ulnar nerve at the elbow (right at your “funny bone”). Carpal tunnel syndrome is the pinching of the median nerve at the wrist. Both syndromes make fingers tingle and ache. With...

Weight-bearing cartilage is attached to the ends of your bones. Traumatic injuries can cause a small area of damage in otherwise excellent cartilage. The name of the damaged cartilage is Osteo Cartilage Defect (OCD). There are...

Burning and tingling pain is usually caused by a pinched nerve. Pinched neck nerve pain often starts on one side of your neck or upper shoulder. It may stop there or continue down your arm and even go into your fingers. Also,...

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,...