Nov 1, 2020 | News, Orthopedics, Patient Stories
“Did you see the video of me biking for the first time in 25 years?” asks Rob McClean enthusiastically. His question comes just a few months after a complicated knee-fusion-disassembly surgery finally allowed him to bend his knee–something he could not do for more...
Nov 1, 2020 | News, Patient Stories, Sports Medicine
With many kids heading starting school this week and next, here’s a look at one of our favorite back-to-school stories: the tale of a high school football star heading to the University of Indianapolis this month on scholarship. But his road to university wasn’t an...
Nov 1, 2020 | News, Orthopedics, Patient Stories
“I’m a person who is not limited in what I want to do,” said Ondrea Tye, 63, a City of Los Angeles Urban Planner. But when a condition called arthrofibrosis afflicted her knee, she experienced some limitations. “My quality of life suffered. I could no longer do much...
Nov 1, 2020 | News, Orthopedics, Patient Stories
Eric Hicks, 31, of Cedar Lake, Indiana was tired of the pain and surgeries over a decade’s time. A knee injury while playing high school football started him on a course that kept getting worse. Hicks underwent 8 surgeries since age 18 – mostly arthroscopic procedures...
Nov 1, 2020 | News, Patient Stories, Sports Medicine
Chicago teenager Emma Falk just finished playing her spring high school softball season successfully after putting the game on hold this past fall. She had been recovering from an increasingly common knee injury among athletic girls her age – an anterior cruciate...
Nov 1, 2020 | Cancer Care, News, Patient Stories
If you are turning the big 5-0 this year, your health should be your priority. Even if you aren’t ready to sign up for an AARP membership card, you should undergo a colorectal cancer screening because your chances of developing the disease increase considerably after...
