What does it feel like when you have a torn rotator cuff? Marcelo Miranda, Supervisor of Rehabilitation and Clinical Services with Doctors Hospital, explains some symptoms, such as pain disturbing your sleep, arm weakness, and difficult to reach behind the back. I'm assuming some of these symptoms are gonna be pretty painful so…...

A herniated disc occurs when the disc that sits in between the bones and, from a specific injury, part of the disc can bulge out and push on the nerves roots that come out of the hole of the spine. Dr. Derek Papp, Sports Medicine Physician with Miami Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Institute, explains when…...

Pain in joints, warmth and redness in joints, swollen joints, stiff joints, trouble moving joints in normal way and grinding feeling of joint when moved are the most common symptoms of arthritis of the shoulder. Edward Hernandez, Physical Therapist with Miami Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Institute, explains pain is one of the classic symptoms of…...

Dr. Brian Schiro, Interventional Radiologist with Miami Cardiac and Vascular Institute, explains metastasis occurs with different frequencies depending on what type of cancer the patient has. "Most patients when they have staged four cancers they have metastasis that have spread to other parts of the body. The bone is one of those spots where…...

Degenerative disc disease is something that will happen as people age. The discs star desiccating, losing some water content and start standing down. All of these processes are developing into arthritis of the neck. Jose Mena, Interventional Spine Specialist at Miami Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Institute, also describes how herniated disc occurs and how it…...

Arthritis, narrow spinal canal, injury to spine, spinal tumor and certain, post-surgery of spine and bone diseases are the most common causes of lumbar stenosis. Dr. Jose Mena, Interventional Spine Specialist with Miami Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Institute, affirms arthritis is the most common cause of lumbar spinal stenosis. The second is congenital spinal stenosis,…...

Dr. Georgiy Brusovanik, Spine Surgeon with Baptist Health South Florida, says to diagnose spinal stenosis the use a MRI to confirm it. He also explains the typical spinal stenosis patients will say they have no pain when sitting or laying down, but cannot walk, because of the pain in the legs. There are…...

A graphic shows different segments of the spine and neck. Jose Mena, Interventional Spine Specialist at Miami Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Institute, says most of the time patients complain about having trapezius pain or over the neck pain. The specialist explains what the most common source of pain are using a graphic. Neck pain and…...