A cardiologist addresses the question of ejection fraction being a predictor of mortality. Ejection fraction is the amount of “squeeze” or force that a heart yields with each beat. Can this actually be a predictor [...]
Marathon runners usually have strong hearts, but believe it or not, they can actually have a low ejection fraction, says a cardiologist. You may have heard that it’s possible for a marathon runner to have [...]
Top surgeons answer questions about just how much you can and cannot lift with a thoracic aortic aneurysm. After doing extensive research in online medical journals regarding weightlifting limitations for people with a thoracic aortic [...]
Not only can sore neck muscles from working out with weights cause a headache, but don’t underestimate what bad sitting posture can do, either. A headache can be an alarming symptom, but remember, the head [...]
Symptoms of rotator cuff injury and biceps tendonitis overlap; a sports medicine doctor explains if there’s a way to tell difference. Is there a way to tell the difference between the symptoms of a rotator [...]
Are you plagued by joint pain at night? Joint pain at night is no picnic, and it can be caused by one or more of several factors. Nighttime Joint Pain vs. Muscle Aches “The first [...]
Here's what can cause the ache in your tailbone when you’ve been sitting. And what to do. Does your tailbone hurt after you’ve been sitting for a while, even though you haven’t recently fallen on [...]
There's a specific reason why your elbow hurts or feels "funny" when you bench press. The tweaky kind of pain may occur the most as you remove the bar from the rack, then lessen a [...]
Find out why you get sudden “pain attacks” in your shoulder that can stop you in your tracks. You’re just sitting there, maybe watching TV or eating, when suddenly, it strikes out of the blue: [...]
Find out the likely causes of that awful, stabbing pain in your ankle that comes out of the blue. You haven’t broken your ankle; you haven’t even twisted it. Yet every so often you get [...]
More and more people are having their tibias or shins surgically lengthened strictly for cosmetic purposes: that of being taller. Surgical techniques for tibia lengthening have improved over the years, and people who desperately want [...]
Sitting should not have to cause low back pain, and there are things you can do to remedy this annoying problem. Why do some people have low back pain after sitting for a while? Let’s [...]
Can’t do pulling exercises (rows, chin-ups, deadlifts) because of elbow pain? I have the solution. Elbow pain often comes in the form of “golfer’s elbow.” This is an inflammation of the tendon on the inner [...]
There’s actually a way to do the shoulder shrug exercise against heavy resistance if you can’t grip due to golfer’s elbow. Golfer’s elbow has the potential to make gripping hurt, since the medial epicondyle tendon [...]
Believe it or not, there are two ways to do inverted rows while protecting your golfer’s elbow from further injury or pain. If you have golfer’s elbow, you can actually do sets of inverted rows. [...]
If you have golfer’s elbow, here is how to perform the lat pull-down without gripping a bar or handle. If your golfer’s elbow makes it painful to pull against resistance, this means you can’t do [...]
Learn how to do biceps curls even if you must avoid gripping due to golfer’s elbow. You need not give up biceps-targeted exercises just because you can’t grip due to golfer’s elbow. There are two [...]
If golfer’s elbow interferes with your bench press, here’s a way to help get around this problem. If your golfer’s elbow is bad enough, bench pressing will aggravate it. I’m a former personal trainer who [...]
If you have golfer's elbow, here's how to do inverted rows without any gripping by using a TRX suspension device. Whether or not you have golfer’s elbow, the TRX setup is the same: Make sure [...]
A fast resting pulse is not good for the heart, and unfortunately, a stressful life can cause this. Stress is bad for the heart, and one way this is so is because chronic stress or [...]
Heart problems, namely severely clogged arteries, cause chest pain -- even at rest if the disease is severe enough. But how short is too short for chest pain to be heart related? “Anginal chest pain [...]
Can a person have a low ejection fraction, even like 35 percent, yet not have congestive heart failure? Ejection fraction means how much blood the heart pumps out with each beat. For this article I [...]
People with costochondritis may say it “feels like a heart attack,” that the pain can be severe, but is there a way to tell the difference? Is there a way for a layperson to tell [...]
Learn exactly what you should do, tests to have, etc., if you have knee pain and swelling long after TKR. If you have knee pain despite having “recovered” from total knee replacement surgery, and especially [...]
Believe it or not, there IS a version of the deadlift that can be done if you have golfer’s elbow (medial epicondylitis). I've had golfer’s elbow. Until the tendon healed, I couldn't do deadlifts or [...]
There’s a very unsuspecting explanation for why sometimes feet hurt even though you haven’t sprained or twisted anything or worn high heels. Next time you think of showing your bare feet in public with flip-flops, [...]
Find out what you should do if you have chest pain but “all the tests” are normal. Many people have chest pain but the cardiac tests come back normal. Chest pain is the No. 1 [...]
Find out why it’s a myth that all athletes or gym rats have a low resting heart rate. Do you work out hard at the gym and even do high intensity interval training, yet are [...]
Could there be any nonsurgical alternatives to knee revision surgery for a failed TKR? After all, revision surgery involves just as much recovery time as the original operation. Furthermore, knee revision surgery is more complicated than [...]
An orthopedic surgeon discusses anesthesia options for knee revision surgery. Are you wondering if general anesthesia is absolutely necessary for knee revision surgery? After all, this is quite unnerving, being that a tube is stuck [...]
There is a gold standard for the identification and diagnosis of a failed or loosened knee replacement. The hardware can fail due to unknown factors in some cases. In other words, when a failure occurs [...]
Marcaine injections can do wonders to suppress the pain of a failed or loosened knee replacement. This begs the question of if a gel form of this drug can also be effective. Very Fast Pain [...]
Find out just how much advanced age plays a role in determining if you’re a poor candidate for knee revision surgery. Can you be too old for knee revision surgery due to failed implants? Is [...]
Find out how effective a Marcaine injection might be for detecting a loosened knee replacement (failed TKR). If your doctor suspects that you have a failed total knee replacement (TKR), he might give you an [...]
Exciting new techniques are available for treating failed or loosened total knee replacements, which can cause pain and mobility issues, reducing quality of life. A typical TKR surgery takes three hours. Knee revision surgery is [...]
Unfortunately, there is no one, single test that can definitively detect a failed total knee replacement. Individual doctor interpretation is much involved. Have you seen your surgeon about the possibility that your total knee replacement [...]
Find out what the cut-off point is for when ejection fraction could be low enough to mean congestive heart failure. People with congestive heart failure have a low ejection fraction, but does a low ejection [...]
Overcome Your Fear of Twitching Muscles Once and for All! Here is the sequence of events: 1) You notice a muscle twitching and it won’t stop. It may be under your leg while you're sitting; on [...]
Why can’t ALS patients feel their tongue twitching? Did you know that if you can feel your tongue twitching, this is not a symptom of ALS? That’s because people with this neurological disease cannot, ever, [...]
Find out why your muscles begin twitching while at rest, but stop when you move. One day I sat at my computer and began noticing that my leg muscles were twitching all over. Not much [...]
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