Geaux to Physical Therapy

Have you been ignoring or putting off dealing with muscle and joint pain?  Do you have pain with certain movements or exercises, wake up stiff, trouble getting around or up and down stairs?  Beyond the annoyance of having the physical pain or limited mobility, you’ve probably wasted time thinking about the problem and trying to [...]

Patients ask me what my opinion is on taking the supplements glucosamine and chondroitin for arthritis.  So, for our monthly journal club I decided to read an article published in the September British Medical Journal (BMJ) on this topic.[i]  Researchers analyzed randomized controlled trials that studied the effect of supplements glucosamine and chondroitin on pain [...]

Should I get a cortisone injection? Are they safe?  Do they help?  Is it a steroid?  Is it just going to mask the real problem?  Will it do more harm than good to the body in the end? These are just a few of the questions that I am frequently asked regarding cortisone injections.  Physicians [...]