The Best Ice Packs
How to Ice Your Knee The use of icing for injuries has been documented in ancient Greece, using snow to treat injured areas to reduce swelling. Today, icing is a [...]
Knee Braces for Arthritis
Want to try to get rid of pain from arthritis without taking a pill, having a shot, or going through a surgery? Try a knee brace ! The goal of [...]
Platelet Rich Plasma
Platelet rich plasma Imagine if we could tell your body to fix itself. Imagine if we could inject factors into your joint with all different types of instructions to repair [...]
How not to have knee surgery: More basics
How not to have knee surgery: More Basics Last time we introduced the concept of working to avoid knee surgery altogether. The importance of maintaining a healthy weight and keeping [...]
How not to have knee surgery: The basics
Nobody wants to have knee surgery. Nobody. And while surgery is a part of what I do, I see it as my calling to help keep you out of the [...]
Cartilage Repair Update: Trial enrolling now
The enrollment is in progress for an FDA phase 3 clinical trial in San Diego, California studying the ability to heal cartilage, or joint surface, injuries and eliminate pain. Dr. Hacker [...]
Would knee replacement improve your life?
Watch this short video to see if knee resurfacing mayIf you persistently feel exhausted and used up and doing a bodily movement takes elongated than before, you may perhaps be [...]
Cartilage Repair Update: Trial enrolling now
The enrollment has begun for a phase 3 clinical trial in San Diego, California studying the ability to heal cartilage, or joint surface, injuries and eliminate pain. Dr. Hacker serves [...]
Robotic Partial Knee Replacement
Robotic partial knee replacement is sometimes called makoplasty after the company that first developed this technology: Mako. Mako has since sold to Stryker Orthopedics. Partial knee replacement or resurfacing is [...]
4 Ways to know if you will develop osteoarthritis
Osteoarthritis If you knew arthritis was coming would you change your lifestyle? Loss of space between bones in osteoarthritis The number of people developing disabling knee pain from osteoarthritis [...]