A hammertoe deformity can cause persistent foot discomfort that makes it difficult to walk and leaves you susceptible to painful corns and calluses. Here’s how to ease your symptoms and keep the condition from progressing.
May 11th, 2022
A hammertoe deformity can cause persistent foot discomfort that makes it difficult to walk and leaves you susceptible to painful corns and calluses. Here’s how to ease your symptoms and keep the condition from progressing.
Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) can be hard to live with, especially if wrist-intensive activities are part of your daily life. Luckily, you can ease CTS-related pain, improve your quality of life, and avoid or delay surgery — here’s how.
Frozen shoulder is a painful and debilitating problem that can immobilize your shoulder joint for months or even years on end. Learn how this frustrating problem progresses on its own, and how the right treatment can help it reverse course.
Playing sports offers a wide range of benefits, but it also comes with an increased risk of injury. Find out how a repetitive stress injury occurs, and learn what you can do to protect your young athlete from this common “overuse” problem.
Research Article published by our very own Tim Beals, DO, together with the other authors, Rui W. Soares, MD, Karen K. Briggs, MPH, Hannah K. Day, MS, and Marc J. Philippon, MD
Whether you were pivoting on the court, changing direction on the field, or negotiating uneven terrain in an off-road race, you weren’t expecting a loud pop in your knee and a lot of pain. Here’s how to return to your sport after a meniscus tear.
Whether it’s the result of a sports injury, a traumatic impact, or a simple misstep, a sprained ankle can be painful and limiting. Learn the ins and outs of this frequent joint injury, including how it’s graded for severity.
You have an ACL injury. Do you need surgery or will conservative treatments work? Learn what circumstances usually require a surgical approach to heal your knee so that it’s functional.
What Is Hip Osteoarthritis? The hip is one of the most important joints in the body. Its primary purpose is to bear and support the weight of the body during physical activity.
Trigger Finger Surgery The human hand is made up of bones, muscles, ligaments, tendons, and joints.
What Is Wrist Tendonitis? The wrist joint, which connects the hand to the forearm, plays an important role in the overall function of the hand and arm.
Ankle Symptom The ankle joint consists of three bones: the tibia, fibula, and talus. The tibia and fibula are the two long bones of the lower leg.
What Is Arthritis? The term “arthritis” simply means inflammation of the joints. In most cases, this inflammation occurs after the cartilage in the joint has been damaged.
A stress fracture usually occurs when a bone is subjected to repetitive strain or impact. For example, when a runner's foot strikes a hard surface, the vibration from that impact travels up the leg to the hip.
What Is A Locked Knee? The knee is one of the most complex joints in the human body.
What Is A Jones Fracture? When a break occurs in the bone that runs along the outside of the foot, from the baby or pinkie toe to the ankle, it may be a Jones fracture.
What Is A Frozen Shoulder? The term “frozen shoulder” refers to pain, stiffness, and loss of normal range of motion in the shoulder joint.
3/20/20 Update: SMO has now incorporated HIPAA secure TeleMedicine video conference visits with our patients.
What Is A Patellar Tendon Tear? Patellar Tendon Tear Symptoms, Treatment And Recovery Patellar tendon ruptures can occur during athletic competition and as a result of accidents around the home.
What Does A Hip Labral Tear Feel Like? Hip Labral Tear Symptoms, Treatment And Recovery Hip labral tears are a fairly common injury, both on the playing field and as a result of chronic conditions.
What Is A Heel Spur? Heel Spur Symptoms, Treatment And Recovery The average American takes more than 5,000 steps every single day. Over the course of our lifetimes,...
Should I Have Shoulder Replacement Surgery? Shoulder Replacement Recovery, Rehab And More Although not as often discussed as hip or knee replacements, shoulder replacement surgery is a fairly common procedure in the world of modern orthopedics.
What Is Hip Impingement? Hip Impingement Symptoms, Causes, And Treatment Femoroacetabular impingement — also known as FAI or simply as hip impingement...
Everything You Need To Know About Total Knee Replacement Surgery In the United States, approximately 12 percent of adults experience mobility limitations as a result of arthritis in the knee, leading to reduced independence and...
How To Tell If Your Hand Is Broken — Broken Hand, Finger, And Wrist Symptoms And Treatment According to recent estimates published in the Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research, approximately one-quarter of all sports injuries...
Whether you’re on the playing field or in the house, the occasional bump, bruise, sprain or pang is inevitable.
Common Ankle Injuries: How To Treat A Sprained Ankle Around the house, on the playing field, or somewhere in between, many of us will suffer a sprained ankle or two in our lifetime.
At Sports Medicine Oregon, we’ve worked tirelessly over the years to make sure the members of the Portland Timbers remain healthy and competitive throughout the grueling MLS season.
Common Achilles Injuries, Treatments, And Prevention The Achilles tendon is the strongest tendon in the human body, capable of supporting loads up to 10 times our body weight!
What Is Carpal Tunnel? Carpal Tunnel Syndrome Causes, Treatment, And Prevention Carpal tunnel syndrome (CTS) is one of the most common nerve conditions in the United States, currently affecting nearly five million workers around the country.
HOW DO YOU KNOW IF YOU NEED A HIP REPLACEMENT? Today, hip replacement surgery is one of the most common elective surgeries in the United States, with more than 400,000 replacements performed annually.
Common Shoulder Injuries: What You Need To Know About Superior Labral Tears Over the past few years, we’ve seen a sudden increase in baseball and softball participation around the country.
How Do You Know If You Tore Your Meniscus? The average person takes more than 5,0001 steps every single day. Over the days, months, and years, these strides add up to thousands upon thousands of leagues quite literally under your knees.
Prevention Is The Best Sports Medicine WHAT IS SPORTS MEDICINE? The human body is capable of incredible achievements, however, as we all know, we all have our own unique limitations (even if we don’t like to admit this).
Recovering From Arthroscopic Surgery WHAT TO EXPECT AFTER ARTHROSCOPIC KNEE SURGERY Arthroscopy is a very useful form of surgery that is used for the treatment of a number of problems.
THE PROCEDURE You are having a bicep tenodesis. Bicep tenodesis is surgical repair of an injured or degenerative tendon through the use of sutures and fixative devices anchoring the tendon to bone.
THE PROCEDURE You are having a rotator cuff repair. Surgical correction seeks to repair the cuff tear using anchors and sutures.
ACL Reconstruction ACL RECONSTRUCTION PROCEDURE You are having an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) reconstruction. Surgical repair seeks to correct mechanical instability of the knee joint.