Feel Better Forever - by Brian Dorfman

 

2011 and 2010 Columns

 

 

December, 2011       A New Perspective on Carpal Tunnel Syndrome

 

A natural follow up to our recent discussion of thumb arthritis and thumb pain is a presentation of Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS). Thumb arthritis is closely related to CTS as they both involve the same misalignment in hand positioning detailed in previous articles.

 

November, 2011      Technology, Injury, and the Student Athlete

 

In the past couple of years I've worked with a lot of student athletes. It's obvious to me that these young men and women are in a very different situation today then we were 10 or 20 years ago.  The student athlete of 2011 is up against hurdles I myself never saw as a young athlete.  Now the training for many high school athletes is comparable to those doing college level sports.   There are often more coaches and more outside groups providing more input and more rigorous training.  But even more relevant, across the spectrum of experience for young athletes, is the impact of the electronic age.

 

October, 2011          Fixing a Thumb: A Case Study

 

In this article I will present the case study of a woman who came to the clinic with some pretty serious issues, including severe pain in her neck, shoulders, and thumbs, chronic headaches, and insomnia.  As this is a complicated case, with various factors at play and various issues to be resolved, I will focus my analysis primarily on the thumbs and hands in keeping with our theme of the past few posts.

 

September, 2011      Stretches and Self-Massage for the Thumb

 

Following last month's post about arthritis in the thumb, we received numerous requests for techniques to prevent and rehabilitate problems in the thumb, wrist and hand.  So here you go.

 

August, 2011            Arthritis of the Thumb

 

In my last article I wrote about a situation with a young boy's thumb in which the top joint had been immobile for nearly two years following an injury he sustained by jamming the thumb.  Within a few weeks of massage and manual manipulation of the joint, the arthritic symptoms were gone, along with the pain, and the thumb was well on the way to regaining full range of motion.

 

June, 2011               A Cure for Arthritis   

 

I began my first article in this series with the story of a 58-year-old man who had been diagnosed with osteoarthritis in his left knee and was, according to his doctor, looking at a total knee replacement as the only way to solve the problem.  We were, however, able to resolve his case quickly and completely through massage, stretching and manual manipulation of the effected joint. How can this be?  

 

May, 2011                Common Medical Misdiagnosis and Treatment Errors

 

This article focuses on medical misdiagnosis and treatment errors that I've recently witnessed.  In my last stint at the clinic there were four new cases that fell into this category.  As we saw a total of 10 new patients in that period, a full 40% were either misdiagnosed or provided ineffective treatment.

 

 

 

 

 

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