Orthopedics/Sports - October 2017 Archives

Chris Norton lay face down on the Luther College football field, motionless. It was a position he'd been in before, on another beautiful fall day ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I recently started jogging for exercise. I have been stretching before each run, but I’ve heard that some stretches increase your risk ...

More than a half million kids play hockey in the U.S., and there’s an ongoing effort to keep them from getting hurt. The national governing body ...

ROCHESTER, Minn. — Mayo Clinic will have the first clinical 7-Tesla MRI scanner in North America that has been cleared by the U.S. Food and ...

Eighty percent of adults experience low back pain at some point in their lifetime, according to the National Institutes of Health. A recent study found more than ...

  Over time, knee pain began to severely limit Mini Kincaid's enjoyment of the activities she loved. But with robotic-assisted knee replacement surgery at Mayo Clinic, Mini is ready to get back in action.

It’s a condition that can have you giving a thumbs-down to activities that require gripping and pinching motions. Thumb arthritis causes pain and swelling in ...