Treatment Choices for Tennis Elbow

May 5, 2015

Treatment Choices for Tennis Elbow Arthroscopy for tennis elbow anybody? As Americans we like choices. Some surgeons pursue impractical choices of treatment for patients. One of them is arthroscopic treatment of tennis elbow. Another is radiofrequency lesioning and yet another one for general purposes is platelet-rich plasma. Platelet-rich plasma may…

Nutrition and Recovery

May 1, 2015

Nutrition and Recovery Nutrition and recovery from carpal tunnel, cubital tunnel and tarsal tunnel release surgeries Have you ever thought about the role of nutrition in healing? Maybe too much emphasis is given to idiosyncratic diets and their effects on lifestyle and longevity for specific ailments. Most of the hoopla…

Pronator Syndrome

April 16, 2015

Pronator Syndrome – Have you ever heard of it? Recurrent carpal tunnel syndrome is not common. Perhaps 1:200 to 1:100 patients who undergo carpal tunnel release will get recurrent persistence of carpal tunnel syndrome despite a properly performed carpal tunnel release. In analyzing a person with persistent symptoms after carpal…

Candidates for Carpal Tunnel Surgery

April 1, 2015

Carpal tunnel release in patients with nerve conduction studies which are normal. There has been a little bit of a controversy over the years on who is a candidate for surgery of the carpal tunnel. Neurologists have frequently been misguided into thinking that a nerve conduction study is prognostic when,…

Raynaud’s Syndrome

January 14, 2015

Can the treatment of carpal tunnel syndrome eliminate Raynaud’s? Is it related to carpal tunnel syndrome? These are both good questions. They have been addressed by a few clinicians over the years with progressively better reviews. Raynaud’s phenomenon, constriction of the blood vessels in the hands, can be painful resulting…