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Sit Up

Sit up. Just like your mother told you to. Sit up straight. Stand up straight—and feel healthy and powerful. Improving your posture does a world of good for you and for others.

Posted by Kevin R. Stone, MD on August 18th, 2019

Posture Back Pain

CrossFit became one of the world’s largest sports gym chains by motivating people to compete with themselves and with others in a variety of fitness tests. While initially focused on Olympic weight lifting and gymnastics, the CrossFit world morphed into a dizzying variety of athletic performance drills—along the way, becoming a sport unto itself. Now what?

Posted by Kevin R. Stone, MD on August 11th, 2019

Fitness Training

Why ACL Repairs Fail

For decades there have been unsuccessful efforts to repair the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) after rupture. Why? Because the forces required to tear the complex weave of the ACL’s collagen fibers involve both tearing and pulling apart. Think of a climbing rope: When overstretched the rope fails within its sheath, not just at a single clean edge. Here is why the ruptured anterior cruciate ligament is most often replaced (reconstructed) rather than repaired.

Posted by Kevin R. Stone, MD on August 04th, 2019

ACL ACL reconstruction ACL replacement Physical Therapy

Opt In

If all of us were organ donors, there would not be a shortage of the life-saving tissues that go to waste every day. And I’m talking about more than kidneys, hearts, and lungs. Orthopaedic tissues, such as meniscus and articular cartilage, are also in short supply. Here is a little insight into a solvable problem.

Posted by Kevin R. Stone, MD on July 25th, 2019

Avoiding Total Knee Replacements

Avoiding a Total Knee Replacement Stone Clinic

This year, in the US alone, the number of total knee replacements will exceed 600,000. Eighty percent of these are unnecessary. Here is why.

Posted by Kevin R. Stone, MD on July 21st, 2019

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Rotator Cuff Revisited

The rotator cuff of the shoulder has four major tendons. The supraspinatus—the one on top—is the one most often torn. Here is a look at the controversies about this injury and its repair.

Posted by Kevin R. Stone, MD on July 14th, 2019

Rotator Cuff

Risk Exposure Time

The increasing number of injuries in all sports for all ages begs the question: Is the risk worth it? Can the risks be decreased? How do we increase the fun/time ratio without the injury cost?

Posted by Kevin R. Stone, MD on July 07th, 2019

Injury Prevention

Top Ten Summer Water Sports Recommendations

Get wet this summer!

Posted by Kevin R. Stone, MD on June 30th, 2019

Water Sports

Birth Tissue Revolution

Birth tissues products such as membranes, cells, and fluids donated by the mothers when they give birth are the new fountain of youth used in many fields of medicine. Here is a brief, biased guide to what you may hear at your next orthopedic (and almost every other medical) office visit.

Posted by Kevin R. Stone, MD on June 23rd, 2019

Amniotic Fluid Injections Anabolic Orthopaedics

Confidence, Power, Purpose

Ever find yourself wandering into the gym only then trying to decide what workout to do? You feel the eyes of others scanning you in a judgmental way and allow their imagined opinions to seep into your mind. At that point, a cloud of self-doubt begins to form. You may end up hiding out on the cardio machine or in a remote corner of the gym. Or you might just turn around and say, “No one I know saw me…I’ll just go home.”

Posted by Athletic Trainer Katerina Salsman edited by Kevin R. Stone, MD on June 16th, 2019

Attitude Exercises

Goodbye, Mom

Moms: We all have one. At some point, they leave us. In my case, the end was bittersweet, knowing that she lived too long and would never have wanted her days to end in a nursing home. Can’t we do better than this?

Posted by Kevin R. Stone, MD on June 09th, 2019

Aging Mental Health

Calf Strains

Calf strains are in the air. No, not different kinds of baby cows: but the strained muscle kind that sidelines great basketball players—like Kevin Durant. Here is what is known and new about them.

Posted by Kevin R. Stone, MD on May 29th, 2019

Supplements 2.0

“My veterinarian gave my horse (or dog) glucosamine, and the animal stopped limping, so I started taking it and I feel less stiff. But I sure hate those big horse pills!”

Posted by Kevin R. Stone, MD on May 22nd, 2019

Supplements Glucosamine Anti-Inflammatories

Patients For Life

When you see a doctor, you have three choices: Ignore their advice and go somewhere else, trust them to solve your problem and move on, or engage with them as an advisor for life. Magic happens when doctor and patient bond forever.

Posted by Kevin R. Stone, MD on May 19th, 2019

Healthcare Doctor Standards of Care

Stress Fractures

Stress fractures happen to athletes at the worst of times. Usually, it is just when they’re increasing training, starting a new sport, or landing awkwardly from a jump. The bones of the feet and the shins are most at risk, but occasionally the hip or spine is injured. The knee is also exposed to such fractures, mostly during ligament ruptures and after meniscus removals. Here is the current thinking on what to do.

Posted by Kevin R. Stone, MD on May 12th, 2019

Bone Fractures & Breaks Arthritis

The Sleep Dilemma

The data is now overwhelming. Eight hours of sleep each night is what humans need for optimal health and performance. Yet most of us don’t get it. What is the fix?

Posted by Kevin R. Stone, MD on May 05th, 2019

Health Rest

If You Can't Build It, Float It

I am fortunate in that I can treat injured people, and push forward the medical science to repair and prevent arthritis. But if my patient doesn’t have a home, what good are my skills?

Here is my suggestion for a practical solution to one part of the homeless problem in the San Francisco Bay Area: a ship.

Posted by Kevin R. Stone, MD on April 28th, 2019

Creative Solutions

Protein and Water

Diets come and go. Advice on water, supplements, energy drinks, and food choices vary like the wind. There are two key principles, however, that have withstood the test of time in our clinic: Protein and water should make up most of your diet. Here is why.

Posted by Kevin R. Stone, MD on April 21st, 2019

Nutrition Protein Water

Once You Go Soft You are Never Going Back

Ski boots haven’t changed much in twenty years. Stiff and stiffer cuffs, rounded Italian-molded toe shapes, heavy polyurethane plastics with cold, hard buckles pretty much describes most of the downhill boots on the market. This is about to radically change.

Posted by Kevin R. Stone, MD (with input from Glen Plake) on April 14th, 2019

Skiing Footwear Injury Prevention

Stress

We all experience it. Sometimes, we can use it to our advantage. But more often it is a disease, rotting our insides. Is there a treatment for stress? A vaccine or a cure? Let’s look at performance, relationships, and sleep. Each is affected by stress in a different way, and each has a variety of useful and useless responses.

Posted by Kevin R. Stone, MD on April 07th, 2019

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