Dr. Anthony Gonzalez, Medical Director of Bariatric Surgery at South Miami Hospital, explains you have to get surgery immediately when the hernia is strangulated. "If somebody is strangulated in the emergency room and cannot be reduced and pushed back in, you go straight to the operating room." He says you also need surgery if…...

Dr. Derek Papp, Sports Medicine Physician with Miami Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Institute, says sports hernia is something that physicians have started to look a little bit differently now. Whit a digital imaging, the specialist explains when it occurs and affirms the treatment is with rest, rehab and medication. In baseball players, Dr. Papp says…...

Hernias occur when a weakness in the muscular wall of the abdomen allows different organs and tissues to come through. Dr. Jerrold Young, General Surgeon with Hernia Institute of Florida, talks about his experience as a general surgeon with all types of general vascular surgery. How do you explain a hernia to a patient…...

How can you know if you have a hernia? Dr. Juan-Carlos Verdeja, General Surgeon with West Kendall Baptist Hospital, says how he identifies these defects in the tissues of the abdominal wall, and explains what the peritoneal sac is. Let's talk about what hernias are and where and why they occur all right so…...

Male gender, obesity, pregnancy, family history, smoke, chronic coughing, and straining to have a bowel movement are some of the risk factors of hernia. Dr. Anthony Gonzalez, Medical Director of Bariatric Surgery at South Miami Hospital, says as the years progress and you get older, the tissues get weaker leading to the progression of hernia.…...

Dr. Michael Renfrow, General Surgeon with Baptist Health South Florida, says the first two common presenting symptoms of hernia are pain and a mass in the abdominal wall, in the groin or the belly button area. He explains it can be a painless mass or a combination of the pain and the mass together. He…...

A lump in the abdomen or groin; pain or pressure that gets worse when you cough, strain, lift, or exercise; a burning feeling in the lump; and steady, growing pain are some of the symptoms of hernia. Dr. Anthony Gonzalez, Medical Director of Bariatric Surgery at South Miami Hospital, says people do not feel the…...

Dr. Anthony Gonzalez, Medical Director of Bariatric Surgery at South Miami Hospital, says about one million hernias are repaired every year in the United States and they are seen in everyday practice. He explains a hernia is a hole in your abdominal wall or groin where your insides are protruding through that area, and it…...