Word: tendonitis
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Having torn a tendon in my right rotator cuff, for which the only treatment is surgery, I have been obsessed with how I'm going to get dressed, do my hair and apply my makeup with my dominant hand in a sling. Then I read Weisskopf's story. I am no longer worried about my situation. The courage exemplified by Weisskopf and the amputees at Walter Reed are awe inspiring and humbling...
...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...
...some cases, those injuries can lead to crippling arthritis or require extensive surgery to repair. It's no longer unheard of, to name just one example, for a 10-year-old baseball pitcher to need a tendon transplant for an ailing elbow--an operation that used to be restricted almost entirely to major league baseball players. And orthopedic surgeons report they are under increasing pressure to offer ever more experimental surgery for younger athletes...
...pain and swelling of Osgood-Schlatter disease, which is more common in boys, comes from irritation of the growth plate just below the kneecap as well as of the tendon that stretches across the kneecap
...drama? Goodman's alleged spycraft revealed nothing as salacious as Charles' famous 1989 declaration that he wanted to be reincarnated as one of then-mistress Camilla's feminine products. But he did manage to reveal that heartthrob-in-waiting William had consulted his knee surgeon after pulling a tendon...