Why You Need to Tell your Physician the Whole Story
As with many orthopaedic and spine surgery practices, we see many patients who have been injured in motor vehicle accidents or falls. There is often a lawsuit lurking in the background and the patient becomes more worried about what they should and shouldn’t say, than the actual care they are receiving. Let’s talk…. […]
Why is there a Waiting Room?
Who invented waiting rooms, and why are they so big now? I can’t answer the first one, but I can answer the second. They are so big because your physician has to book a very large amount of patients in order to pay his/her rent and staff. The physician gets less health insurance reimbursement per […]
Don’t Get Bulldozed. How to find a Spine Specialist.
There is a specialist for almost any illness, symptom or injury. Once the decision has been made that more specialized care is necessary, finding someone you can trust is the most difficult thing to do. As spine surgery is the specialty of this practice, we’ll explain how to pick a spine surgeon. Let’s talk… You […]
The Start to a Solution (New Opioid Law)
As anyone who has read our blogs over the last few years knows, the use and abuse of opioid medication has been a major concern of our practice. We have tried to bring attention to the fact that these drugs are being over-prescribed and are leading to addiction and death to many. Finally, someone is […]
A Loss of Lordosis
Is it Bad News? We see it frequently on MRI reports, especially in patients who were in car accidents, “there is a loss of lordosis in the cervical spine”. It sounds scary and is often followed by the information that this is “often caused by spasm in the neck and upper back”. Is this something […]
How Do They Do It?
Check out our blog this olympic week https://www.shimspine.com/how-do-they-do-it/ CitationsGonzález JM, Johnson FR, Fedoruk M, Posner J, Bowers L. Trading Health Risks for Glory: A Reformulation of the Goldman Dilemma. Sports Med. 2018 Mar 1; PubMed PMID: 29498027Last modified: December 11, 2020
