News Tagged ‘arthritis

Reports of young patients with arthritis in shoulder increasing

Shoulder Arthritis 100x100A growing number of young patients have been developing arthritis in their shoulders after routine outpatient arthroscopic surgery, causing surgeons to question what could be causing the debilitating condition in otherwise healthy individuals.

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New procedure may prove effective for some shoulder injuries

shoulder pain pump 100x100Jim Smith could barely move his right arm following a motorcycle accident. A traditional shoulder replacement surgery left him in pain and unable to even do small household chores. “I was down to practically doing nothing,” Smith said to WNDU-TV. “I couldn’t even trim bushes in the yard because I didn’t have control of my right arm.”

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