Hergenroeder Orthopedic Clinic

World Renowned Heart Surgeon Speaks Out On What Really Causes Heart Disease

We physicians with all our training, knowledge and authority often acquire a rather large ego that tends to make it difficult to admit we are wrong. So, here it is. I freely admit to being wrong. As a heart surgeon with 25 years experience, having performed over 5,000 open-heart surgeries, today is my day to …

If You Have Varicose Veins, You're Probably Making This Huge Mistake

Ignoring those swollen, twisted, bluish-green vessels and planning on delaying treatment for a decade or two? That's probably not your best move. "For a long time, doctors told patients with varicose veins that they should wait until they're finished having children before having the veins addressed.

9 Health Rules That Doctors Never Break

Top doctors share the best health tips and health advice they themselves follow to prevent skin cancer and breast cancer, reduce back pain, prevent stress and more.

13 Signs You May Be Pregnant

What are the earliest signs of pregnancy? Although many of these factors occur at the end of your cycle, they're also pregnancy symptoms.

How limiting women's access to birth control and abortions hurts the economy

Reproductive health isn’t just about abortions, despite all the attention they get. It’s also about access to family planning services, contraception, sex education and much else. Such access lets women control the timing and size of their families so they have children when they are financially secure and emotionally ready and can finish their education and advance in the workplace. After all, having children is expensive, costing US$9,000 to $25,000 a year. And that’s why …

Why this physician stopped prescribing birth control

With my scribbled signature I dissolved the boundary that nature had given her to own and protect her own body.

When to See an Orthopedic Surgeon

The Stone Clinic method

The Stone Clinic is unlike most other orthopedic clinics. Our biologic approach makes us different. We regenerate and rebuild, rather than replace with metals and plastics. We take a biologic approach to treating joint injuries and arthritis, preserving as much of the natural biology of the joint as possible, often rebuilding with donor tissue, in order to avoid or delay a joint replacement. In this new…

What Are the Most Common Orthopedic Surgeries?

Orthopedic surgeons perform routine surgeries every day. Are you wondering if yours is one of them? Here, we answer, "What are the most common orthopedic surgeries?"

What is your area of Orthopedic specialty?

Dr. Kamaljett Banga with the Center for Orthopedic Care explains his area of specialties in orthopedic care. To learn more about Oswego Health’s orthopedic care, visit oswegohealth.org/ortho …

Ten Common Orthopedic Injuries

Ten Common Orthopedic Injuries - Tennis Elbow Presented by Dr. Philip R. Lozman, M.D. Dr. Philip R. Lozman, MD, orthopedic surgeon, is a member of the Center …

Algorithms helped design this smart update on the orthopedic cast

A team of engineers have reinvented the orthopedic cast for the 21st century, using some algorithms and smart materials.

Dissolvable device could signal how recovery’s going after orthopedic surgery

Stretchable strain and pressure sensor might one day guide rehabilitation

6 Common Orthopedic Problems in Pregnant Women

Learn about orthopedic conditions that are common during pregnancy, plus get information on causes and treatments of these joint and bone problems.

Children's skeletons maturing earlier, may affect orthopedic treatments

Scientists say children's skeletons are maturing sooner than they did early in the 20th century, and this could affect the timing of certain orthopedic treatments.

6 Tricks To A Quick Surgical Recovery

What you do before surgery can be as important to a quick recovery as what you do after it, explains Consumer Reports health experts.