Colorado Center of Orthopaedic Excellence Blog

The hips are one of the strongest parts of the human body and serve a crucial role in keeping us on our feet.

Most of us have had an elbow injury at some point – if only just a knock to the “funny bone,” which can cause an uncomfortable shooting sensation along the forearm.

Most everyone is familiar with Physical Therapy. You are injured during an accident or rehabilitating from surgery, you work with a physical therapist to continue the healing and recovery process.

Gymnastics is the kind of sport that requires coordination, endurance, and strength. The ability to mold and bend the body into different movements and positions display an individual’s ability to balance and control parts of the body such as the arms, legs, shoulder, back, chest and abdominal muscles.

Physical therapy can help people of all ages regain motion or improve their function after suffering any of a variety of injuries and illnesses.

Implants used in total knee replacement surgery are highly individualized, and there is no single type or size that fits all. Knee implants vary depending on design, materials, and fixation.

Shoulders are the most mobile joint of the human body. They offer the greatest range of motion – and because of this flexibility, it is one of the most injured joints in the body.

Sometimes our shoulders can ache and hurt, but it is not necessarily due to a shoulder injury – it may be due to a slow development of biceps tendonitis.

Every year, there are millions of teenagers who participate in some form of high school sports. And every year, many of them sustain sports-related injuries.

Even though a hip replacement, or arthroplasty, is now a common orthopedic procedure, it can still seem like an ordeal to some patients.