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July 22, 2013
Golf Cart Driving Injuries May Increase Your Handicap I have experienced poor driving behavior by my 16-year-old son with a golf cart- I was thrown out and the cart wheel hit my ankle. Another time we were mired in mud off the path. A four-year study from the University of…
July 15, 2013
Are You a Golfer with Shoulder Pain? By Dr. Dolf R. Ichtertz, Nebraska Hand & Shoulder Institute I frequently treat golfers having difficulty with shoulder pain. In my last blog I wrote about a delay in treatment and how it affects the outcome using nerve entrapment syndromes as an example.…
July 8, 2013
The statement is often made by patients I see that “I know I’ll never be the same as I was before the injury”. This is usually not a correct assumption. Though there is not an absolute relationship between stage of disease and magnitude and quality of correction, early treatment in…
July 1, 2013
The suprascapular nerve is extremely important to shoulder function. It comes off high in the brachial plexus and is felt to supply about 70% of the sensory input to the shoulder while innervating the majority of the rotator cuff. Thus, it is important both in pain perception as well as…
June 24, 2013
Open Carpal Tunnel Release Can Increase Your Risk of Pain The article so entitled by Boya et al. published in Muscle and Nerve, November 2008, Volume 38, pages 1443-1446, pointed out the frequent postoperative problems after open carpal tunnel release such as persistent weakness, pillar pain (deep-seated ache or pain over…
