When Should You Visit an Orthopedic Knee Specialist?
Are you experiencing knee pain? Maybe it’s time to see an orthopedic specialist.
How to Heal an MCL Tear
An MCL tear or rupture can be a debilitating injury, but it often responds well to conservative treatment options like physical therapy.
Surgery Most Effective in Treating Meniscus Tears, Study Finds
A new study suggests that surgery may be the best option for a torn meniscus in the knee. But is it the right treatment for you?
Football Injuries: Kneecap (Patellar) Dislocation
Athletes in high impact sports or sports that require a lot of running and jumping are prone to knee injuries. Kneecap dislocations most often happen as a result of trauma, such as when a football player is tackled or a soccer players falls hard on his knees. The kneecap, or patella, is referred to as dislocated when […]
The Truth About Knee Osteoarthritis
It occurs nearly every day in the office. There is almost always someone that I have to inform that they have the degenerative disease: Knee Osteoarthritis. It sounds like such a scary diagnosis to a patient. Many patients, when they hear this, feel that this is the beginning of getting old or the start of […]
Total Knee Replacements For Chronic Knee Pain
Total knee replacements are one of the most successful procedures in all of medicine. More than 600,000 knee replacements are performed each year in the United States. It can help relieve pain and restore motion and function in severely damaged knee joints. During knee replacement surgery, the damaged cartilage is removed from the femur (thighbone), tibia (shinbone) […]
How To Stay Healthy After Joint Replacement Surgery
While the human body’s ability to be versatile and resilient is well-proven, it certainly has some limitations. Whether it’s through aging, disease, injury or some other means, these bodies of ours eventually begin to wear out, and many times this leads to weakness, instability and pain in areas of our body that were previously healthy. […]
Did I Tear My ACL?
Anterior Cruciate Ligaments, or ACLs, are very common areas of injury for athletes. Patients often come to NY Bone and Joint convinced that they’ve torn their ACL. ACL tears can cause serious pain and need to be treated by an orthopedic specialist like Dr. Leon E. Popovitz, MD, properly, or it will become a reoccurring problem. […]
Revision Total Knee Replacement
Total knee replacement surgery is one of many very successful operations in orthopedic surgery, but over the time it can fail. There can be multiple reasons. It can be infection, loosening and wear of implants, instability, stiffness of the knee and fracture around the prosthesis. Multiple tests are performed to find the cause of pain […]