While athletic injuries in youth seem to occur at the same rate as professional athletes, the types of injuries we see in our younger patients are much different. This is due to the fact that younger athletes are still growing and developing.

It’s called tennis elbow, so you’d naturally assume that you’d have to play tennis to get it. You’d be half right, but in today’s tech driven world, there are plenty of other non-athletic ways you can get conditions like tennis elbow, carpal tunnel, and chronic upper back and neck pain.

There’s an outdated perception of joint replacement procedures that it’s a prison sentence of sorts; that you’ll never again be as mobile as you were before the procedure. The old ideas about joint replacement is that you’ll have a long road to recovery, the pain after the surgery is significant and you’ll never be the same again. However, this simply isn’t the case. Recent advancements in technology have drastically reduced the invasive nature o…