Good news for the millions of people throughout the country suffering from bunions: lapiplasty is a recently developed treatment with the potential to exceed the results of traditional bunion surgery. Left untreated, this common foot deformity can cause increasing pain and discomfort that eventually limits basic activities.

No parent wants to contemplate anything harming their child. But injuries are often a fact of life growing up, especially for active children.

We live in an era when advanced medicine – and joint replacements in particular – are allowing people with debilitating conditions to live longer, healthier, and more enjoyable lives. Over 1 million total hip and total knee replacement procedures are performed in the U.S. each year.

An estimated 30 million people in the U.S. suffer from osteoarthritis, a degenerative disease of one or more joints. About 1.5 million of them have rheumatoid arthritis (RA). This more debilitating form is a chronic, inflammatory, autoimmune disease that typically targets the lining of multiple joints throughout the body.

People getting in shape tend to focus on building cardio and muscle strength. That’s a good start, but it’s just as important to keep our bone and joint health in mind.

If you’ve ever worked with an occupational therapist following an injury, then you know that ongoing assessments are central to their ability to measure your improvements.

If you’ve ever been prescribed occupation-based hand therapy, you may have felt a bit confused at first. That’s because this niche of occupational therapy (OT) is not restricted to the treatment of hand injuries alone.

In 2019, 2.8 million nonfatal workplace injuries and illnesses were reported by private businesses. The number of all work-related injuries was likely much higher. Since they tend to be orthopaedic in nature, patients suffering from them should seek treatment at a clinic that specializes in those types of conditions.