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Treatments For Orthopedic Patients

Pain is the reason why people go to see an orthopedic doctor. Although they don't know that something is happening to their body, they know that there is pain. Charles Jordan, Orthopedic Surgeon at Miami Orthopedics & Sports Medicine Institute, says pain is a very difficult thing, because he sees patients who have something looking incredibly painful and they say there was something weird. "In the scenario of trauma, opioids play an important role to get you through a period and it is my resposibility to help you get through that without having the need to continue to take them," he explains.

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