The Foundry Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Blog

While there are so many topics to potentially discuss on this blog, I always find it challenging to choose the right one.  I have recently had the good fortune to attend two educational courses over the past two weekends.  The first was the annual meeting for the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons.  I found myself engaged in great lectures regarding shoulder pathology and treatments - among other things.  The second, more recently, was a course regarding total shoulder replacement surgery.  Consequently, I have decided to share some of my thoughts on chronic shoulder pain and shoulder replacement (aka arthroplasty).

The beginning of the year is usually a pivotal time for many who want to get in shape, train for an event or increase their sports performance. The following is an introduction to interval training. This type of training became popular with the Boot camp craze in the late 1990’s. Researchers let the info out to the media and many exercisers took to this new way to increase performance and lose weight. One researcher, Timothy Church, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D. was interviewed on National Public Radio August 24th 2009 saying "I'm a huge supporter of interval training because I think the payoffs are great, I mix them into my workouts on a weekly basis."
Interval training is generally for all fitness levels, this type of cardiovascular training provides benefits to any healthy person such as improving fitness, health, speed and stamina; however it’s a very demanding type of exercise and certainly not one you would want to begin without adequate preparation.
"The benefit of interval training is that it's a very efficient way to increase your fitness quickly," says Church of the Pennington Biomedical Research Center.
You may implement interval training into your regular workouts to prevent boredom, decrease “cardio” time and get the fitness results you want.

We bend them, kneel on them, run and jump on them daily, yet few of us give them a second thought. Knees. They're one of the most complex and most injury prone joints in our body.

The topic of osteoarthritis has been discussed in two previous blog entries. This blog entry will discuss living with arthritis in your hands and also make suggestions concerning caring for your hands to minimize the symptoms.