Word: orthopedist
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...Jays Orthopedist Hugo Keim of Manhattan's Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center: "If you believe in evolution as I do, then you can trace all of our lower back problems to the time when the first hominid stood erect. If you're a creationist, you can look at it this...
Indeed, the possible causes of back pain are so numerous that pinpointing them may pose an almost Holmesian diagnostic challenge. Says Orthopedist Edwin Guise of Henry Ford Hospital, physician for the Detroit Lions: "You have to think of everything from poor posture to cancer...
Because of Elizabeth's youth and the relatively good condition of the wound and leg, a hastily assembled surgical team under Orthopedist Gerald Wertlieb decided to try to rejoin the limb. Though hundreds of amputated fingers, hands and arms have been reattached, such operations on the leg are quite rare, with most successes reported by the Chinese...
...sprains; not to mention sundry bruises, abrasions, lacerations and concussions. "People should realize they simply cannot ask their bodies to do as much at age 30, 40 or beyond as they could at age 20," says Mount Sinai's Dr. Burton L. Berson, a New York City orthopedist who runs one of the many new sports-medicine clinics that have sprung up all over the U.S. to care for men and women wounded in the pursuit of health and happiness...
...vast majority of injuries result from what doctors call the "overuse syndrome"-trying to push the out-of-condition over-30 body too far too fast. Los Angeles Orthopedist Sonny Cobble says simply that weekend jocks as a class tend to suffer from "an acute case of simplemindedness. Most of us have a tendency to remember our youth." Dr. Marshall Rockwell, who together with several partners operates seven Los Angeles hospital emergency rooms, reports that a majority of weekend athletes are middle class and "tend to be quite competitive." Adds Braden: "It's almost like when they finally...