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The bones of children and adolescents possess a special area where the bone is growing called the growth plate. Growth plates are areas of cartilage located near the ends of bones. When a child is fully grown, the growth plates harden into solid bone. Some growth plates serve as attachment sites for tendons, the strong tissues t…

What is the rotator cuff and what does it do? The rotator cuff is a group of four muscles that surround the shoulder joint, keeping the head of your upper arm bone firmly within the shallow socket of the shoulder. Thus, the rotator cuff stabilize the ball of the shoulder within the joint and there by helps to lift and rotate the…

What is carpal tunnel syndrome? Carpal tunnel syndrome is a condition that causes pain, numbness, tingling, and weakness in the hand and wrist. It happens when there is increased pressure on a nerve called the median nerve. This nerve provides sensation to the thumb, index, and middle fingers, and to half of the ring finger. T…

What is ACL? ACL or the Anterior Cruciate Ligament is one among the many ligaments that connect the knee bones (femur or the thigh bone and tibia or the leg bone) together. A ligament is a structure that connects the bones.   Why are the ligaments important? What is its function? The ligaments around knee joint connects th…

The primary reason for this surgery is severe arthritis of the joint. Arthritis means the destruction of cartilage (protective coating of bones at the joints) that cover the bones at and near the joint. When the cartilage is destroyed, the bone ends are exposed and this causes the raw bone ends to touch each other which causes inf…