Category: WOW – Wynkoop’s Ortho Wisdom

Yes, some rare fractures in people less than 50 are non-displaced and can be walked on with mild pain. One type is a stress fracture of the hip. These can heal by using crutches, but many need three screws through a small...

Two or 14 days off! Cubital tunnel syndrome is the pinching of the ulnar nerve at the elbow (right at your “funny bone”). It’s like carpal tunnel syndrome, but at your elbow instead of your wrist, with a different nerve. The...

ACL Rehab is harder than other knee surgeries for several reasons. 1. Your anterior cruciate ligament, or ACL, is one of the biggest ligaments in your body. 2. It is one of the few ligaments that will not heal itself. Most...

Bulging discs are common and usually don’t cause back pain. Sciatica is nerve pain going from your buttocks down to your knee, ankle or foot caused by a disc pushing on a nerve root. Surgery to stop bulging discs from pushing on...

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...