Cause of Stabbing Ankle Pain that Comes and Goes
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 [...]
Low Back Pain after Sitting: Cause & Solutions
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 [...]
Complete Back & Biceps Routines You Can Do with Golfer’s Elbow
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 [...]
How to Do Inverted Rows with Golfer’s Elbow
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. [...]
Golfer’s Elbow: How to Do Shoulder Shrugs if You Can’t Grip
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 [...]
How to Do Lat Pull Downs with Golfer’s Elbow
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 [...]
How to Do Biceps Curls with Golfer’s Elbow
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 [...]
How to Do a Bench Press with Golfer’s Elbow
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 [...]
Golfer’s Elbow: Inverted Row with TRX Suspension Device
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 [...]
Can Chronic Anxiety Cause Fast Resting Heart Rate?
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 [...]
How Long Can Chest Pain from a Heart Problem Last?
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 [...]
Low Ejection Fraction without Congestive Heart Failure?
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 [...]
Costochondritis vs. Heart Attack, Angina: Symptom Comparison
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 [...]
Pain After Total Knee Replacement: Your Course of Action
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 [...]
How to Do a Deadlift if You Have Golfer’s Elbow
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 [...]
Should You Avoid Flip Flops? Yes, They Can Hurt Your Feet
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, [...]
Chest Pain but Normal Test Results: What’s Next?
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 [...]
Why Some Athletes Have Higher Resting Heart Rate
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 [...]
Knee Replacement Revision without General Anesthesia?
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 [...]
Non-Surgical Treatment of Failed Total Knee Replacement
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 [...]
Does a Marcaine Gel Exist for Failed TKR Pain?
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 [...]
Gold Standard for Diagnosing Failed Knee Replacement
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 [...]
Failed Knee Replacement: Can Marcaine INJECTION Diagnose?
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 [...]
Elderly Patient’s Knee Revision Surgery’s Biggest Risk?
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 [...]
Treating Failed Knee Replacement Surgery: Latest Techniques
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 [...]
Bone Scans Difference of Opinion Re: Loosened TKR
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 [...]
How Low Must Ejection Fraction Be for Congestive Heart Failure?
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!
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 [...]
ALS Tongue Twitching, Weakness, EMG Test
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, [...]
Why Muscles Seem to Twitch More When at Rest
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 [...]
Sudden Onset Transient Double Vision: Get to ER
Just because your sudden-onset double vision disappeared after a few minutes doesn’t mean that the cause can’t kill you. There are many causes of double vision (diplopia), but sudden-onset, transient double vision is a different [...]
Numbness in Tip of Middle Finger: Cause & Solution
If the tip of your middle finger has suddenly become numb, here is some reassuring news. It’s hard to ignore numbness in the tip of your middle finger. However, the extreme locality of this should [...]
Can Cause of Numb Lips Be Serious Like ALS?
As innocent as a numb lip may sound, some causes can be quite serious--can one be ALS? There are a number of causes for numbness in a lip, says Anthony P. Geraci, MD, associate professor of [...]
What Causes INTERMITTENT Muscle Twitching?
This article is about the causes of intermittent muscle twitching (fasciculations), not spasms. Intermittent muscle twitching (fasciculations) is not the same phenomenon as spasms. If you’re wondering what can be causing intermittent twitching of your [...]
Strength Tests for Foot Drop, Quads, Calves, Fingers
Strength Tests for Foot Drop, Quads, Calves, Fingers As a former personal trainer, I have designed some brilliant strength tests that should give any healthy person loads of reassurance that they are healthy. Of course, always [...]
Why Don’t Websites Say ALS Tongue Twitching Can’t Be Felt?
Those who fear ALS would benefit by knowing that bulbar-onset tongue twitching cannot be felt by the patient. Bulbar-onset ALS tongue twitching cannot be felt by the patient, but are there web sites that make [...]
Why Can’t ALS Patients Feel Their Tongue Twitching?
Though tongue twitching can result from bulbar-onset ALS, the patient never feels the fasciculations. When a person has bulbar-onset ALS, one of the symptoms can be a twitching tongue. These fasciculations look like worms squirming [...]
What Bulbar Tongue Twitching Really Looks Like
A neurologist describes what bulbar-onset ALS tongue twitching actually looks like. If you’re scared that you might have bulbar-onset ALS because you see your tongue twitching when you look at it in the mirror, you [...]
Causes of Twitching in Neck and Shoulder Muscles
A neurologist explains what may be causing twitching in your neck and shoulder muscles. Have your neck and shoulder areas been twitching lately? “For almost everyone – particularly young healthy persons -- a simple twitch [...]
Why You Get Paralyzed During Sleep and Why It’s Harmless
Don’t be frightened of “sleep paralysis,” but instead, embrace it! Have you awakened in the morning to find that your body is totally paralyzed? I have! And I love it! “Almost everyone has had the [...]
