Post Op Physio Recovery A week-by-week guide to recovery after total knee replacement: range of motion targets, how long swelling really lasts, the week 2 to 4 dip, warning signs, and when you can drive, work, fly and kneel again.
Six separate studies found that patients whose shoulders stiffened after rotator cuff repair had lower re-tear rates than patients whose shoulders stayed loose. The stiffness most people are told to fear is, in one specific situation, a signal that the tendon is healing.
The largest randomized trial of frozen shoulder treatment compared physical therapy, manipulation under anesthetic and keyhole surgery in 503 patients. None of the three was clearly better than the others. Here is what that means for your decision.
Frozen shoulder is usually described as self-limiting, resolving in one to three years. The long-term follow-up studies say something different. What it actually is, who gets it, and what the evidence shows about how it really ends.
What happens when a massive rotator cuff tear goes unrepaired for years: the Hamada stages, why you cannot lift your arm, what the anterior deltoid program achieves, and what reverse shoulder replacement actually delivers.
78 percent of men with no shoulder symptoms at all have a thickened subacromial bursa on MRI. What that means for your diagnosis, what the treatment evidence shows, and why infected bursitis can present with no fever at all.
Two placebo-controlled trials gave patients fake shoulder decompression surgery. Both groups did the same. What that means if you have been told you have impingement, and what the evidence says actually works.
Rotator cuff tendinopathy is not inflammation, which is why anti-inflammatories do not fix it. What is really happening in the tendon, what the exercise and injection evidence shows, and how long it takes to settle.
Two thirds of full thickness rotator cuff tears in people over 60 cause no symptoms at all. A complete guide to partial and full thickness tears: what they are, whether they get worse, and how the surgery versus physical therapy evidence really stacks up.
A month-by-month guide to ACL reconstruction recovery, including the window where your graft is weakest while you feel strongest, the return-to-sport criteria that cut re-injury risk by 84 percent, and honest re-injury rates by age.