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...have what Donald Rumsfeld has? A lot of folks do. Tearing and what's called "maceration" of the rotator cuff are the most common causes of chronic shoulder pain in adult Americans. I find them and other shoulder problems fascinating; this strangely tendon-wrapped joint has kept my professional interest level amazingly high for the 22 years that I've been doing orthopedics. So when, in the middle of doing an arthroscopic rotator cuff repair this morning, my trusty assistant Dave told me about Don Rumsfeld's repair, I knew I had to get the plain truth...
Truth be told, you’re probably going to get a lot of shit over the next four years—and, actually, well into your adult life—for concentrating in the History of Art and Architecture. (Start thinking now about how you’re going to answer the question, “So what are you going to do with your life?”) But ignore all those Ec majors and pre-meds—you’ve made a supremely wise decision, even you made it because you don?...
...plunging cardiovascular death rates are a stumbling block for those trying to push the obesity panic button, then type 2 diabetes-studies suggest it afflicts more than 7% of Australia's adult population, twice its prevalence 20 years ago-is a hitch for skeptics. A disease strongly correlated with obesity and once almost exclusively associated with ageing, type 2 diabetes appears to be striking more people, and earlier. For the N.S.W. Schools Physical Activity and Nutrition Survey 2004 (SPANS), researchers took blood samples from 500 Year 10 students and found elevated insulin levels-a precursor to the disease-in almost...
...good thing. But that isn't necessarily so. It's true that the earlier in life you make running, jumping, swimming and other physical activities a regular part of your daily routine, the healthier you'll be--provided that you keep it up as an adult. But the enormous boom over the past few years in soccer, gymnastics and other highly competitive sports for children has a dark side as well: an epidemic of sports injuries that go well beyond the bruises, scrapes and occasional broken bones parents might expect...
...Rotator cuff tears, herniated discs, torn knee ligaments and cartilages are just like this; the same abnormality that hurts some folks doesn't hurt others. Over 80% of asymptomatic adult volunteers (people with no pain at all) who let us do an MRI of their necks were found to have abnormalities - like disc herniations and bone spurs - that we commonly operate on in symptomatic patients. The rotator cuff, my particular expertise, is even more mysterious. When it's torn and symptomatic, there is measurable weakness. A big, symptomatic tear often makes it impossible even to raise...