Dr. Arthur Fitzgerald Chau, MD

it will depend on the bunion procedures. If the operation involves the bony correction, it will take 8-3 months to heal.

The healing of the joint after dislocation the pains on what joint in the body and what type dislocation that he had. For example, if you sustained a dislocation of the patella of your knee, your body will heal up by itself. If you have a dislocation of the shoulder of the elbow, these joints usually healed up by themselves even though you might have a some instability of the joint. There are certain dislocations will not healed up by itself. For example, if you dislocate your knee, some of the important ligament which stabilize your knee such as ACL PCL will not healed up by themselves.

People usually sustained bursitis of the elbow from excessive activity or overuse of the elbow. Usually, people sustained both tendinitis and bursitis at the elbow especially the lateral epicondyle I which is lateral bony prominence of the elbow the muscle which attaches to this lateral epicondyle I extend the wrist. With excessive lifting, pulling or pushing as well as a playing tennis the attachment of the muscle at the lateral epicondyle I will be inflamed causing swelling and pain. Such symptom is diagnosed as tennis elbow or lateral epicondylitis. I recommend that you decrease your activity with your elbow and take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medication medication such as ibuprofen, Aleve, or Advil. If you play tennis, you should decrease the tension of the string and or increasing the grip size of the tennis racquet. If your symptoms are not relieved, I recommend that you see an orthopedic surgeon or family doctor for a steroid injection. You can also wear elbow strap which is available in most pharmacies.
I hope that you will feel better.

If you continue to have pain even with anti-inflammatory medications and reduction in activity, I recommend that you see your orthopedist to obtain an MRI of your leg. The MRI will be able to diagnose the stress fracture. Other causes of leg pain are chronic compartment syndrome or sciatica. The chronic compartment syndrome is caused by tight fascia in your leg, and the pain caused by the swelling of the muscles after activities. Sciatica is caused by the irritation of the nerves in your back and can be aggravated by activities.

There are several reasons or causes that cause pain in your knee. The most common cause of pain in the knee of the young person knee is sprain or contusion if you twisted your knee. The knee pain can also be because by a tear of the cartilage, i.e., meniscal tear in your knee. If you exercise excessively, you can sustain a stress fracture in your knee. I recommend that you curtail your exercise or activity and to take nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medication such as Motrin, ibuprofen, Aleve, or Advil. If the pain in your knee does not improve after few days, I will recommend that you see an orthopedic surgeon for X-ray and examination.
I hope that you will feel better soon.

Aching pain can be one of the covid-19 symptoms. However, the patient usually has other symptoms such as high fever, coughing, shortness of breath, loss of taste or smell. Since you are young, it is very unlikely for you to have a symptomatic covid-19. Your back pain is probably caused by heavy lifting, pulling, or pushing. If you start to have other symptoms, PLEASE contact your primary physician.

No, fortunately, osteoporosis does not occur in the children. Some children can have hereditary condition called osteogenesis imperfecta that can cause brittle bone.

Several things can cause the painful great toe. You can have a small fracture at the small bone called seasemoids. You could have an attack of gout or bone spurs at the joint of the big toe, I will recommend you to see an orthopedic doctor to have an X-rays and examination. Meanwhile, you can try to wear hard soled shoes.

Sleeping position does not affect your back pain. People usually change their positions during sleeping spontaneously. You should avoid sitting for a long period of time (no more than 15 or 20 minutes).

Stretching exercise do not strengthen the muscles of the ankle. To stabilize the ankle you need to strengthen the eversion, i.e., rotating the foot to the outside, and inversion, i.e., rotating the foot to the inside. You can strengthen the eversion and inversion of the ankle with a rubber band looping around both your ankle with some tension when you try to rotate your ankle outside. Swimming is also a good exercise to strengthen your ankle.

Patients after spinal surgery usually do not need a wheelchair after the operation. In fact, most patients are expected to ambulate out of bed after their operations. You might need to wear a brace dependent on the type of your operation such as spine fusion.

When you sustained a sprained ankle without any treatment, especially physical therapy the pain of the right ankle will subside since the ligament usually heals by itself. However, when you ankle sprain, the peroneal muscle would stabilize her ankle is also injured. Without physical therapy the peroneal muscle would not regain its previous strength resulting in recurrent sprain of the ankle. Therefore to avoid repetitive sprain of the ankle I strongly recommended due to have physical therapy to strengthen the peroneal muscle. You can attend physical therapy only few sessions to learn to exercise at home.

I would recommend that you should see a doctor to find out the cause of your hip pain since your are young. If you have a tendonitis, stretching and strengthening will help. If you have the hip femoroacetabular impingement or labral tear (cartilage tear in the hip joint) stretching will not help.

The best pain reliever for bursitis or nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medication such as ibuprofen, meloxicam, Celebrex. You can use Voltaren gel applied topically to the area of bursitis to decrease inflammation as well as pain caused by bursitis. If such medication failed to relieve the pain or inflammation, steroid injection can also be used.

The hip bursitis usually causes the pain at the lateral aspect of the hip at the greater trochanter area. The pain from the hip bursitis does not extend down the leg. If you have pain radiating from the hip down to the leg, the pain is usually caused by sciatica..

I am sorry to hear that you sustained such an injury. It usually takes 3 months for the vertebra to heal. Hope that you will heal soon.

Hi,

It usually takes 8-12 weeks for the total knee replacement to feel normal. The patient can walk with full weight bearing with a walker right after the operation in the same day, The patient will advance to walk with a cane as he tolerates The wound will heal completely in 2 weeks. With the physical therapy, the patient will gain the normal motion in 4-6 weeks. The knee's strength will be normal in 8-12 weeks. You can drive as soon as you can gain good motion of the right knee and when you stop taking pain medication (about 3-4 week).

The tendonitis in the elbow is caused by the partial tear or full tear of the tendon. Depends on the degree of the tear, the pain can be resolved in 4-6 weeks with the non- steroidal anti-inflammatory medications such as ibuprofen and/ or injection. Physical therapy and elbow strap can also help to relieve the pain. If you have chronic or frequently recurrent pain, small out patient surgery will help.

There are several causes for mid back pain such as osteoarthritis of the spine, paraspinal muscle strain, disc herniation. With disc herniation patient usually has numbness and tingling or weakness of the lower extremities, i.e., legs. The most common cause of back pain is muscle strain when the patient perform any heavy lifting, pulling or pushing. Usually, the muscle strain is improving with nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medication such as Motrin or Advil, exercise and physical therapy. The muscle pain caused by osteoarthritis condition is also relieved by nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory medication, exercise, stretching, and physical therapy. However, with arthritis condition also, low back pain will reoccur periodically. Simple X-rays of the lumbar spine can detect also arthritic change of the lumbar spine. An MRI of the lumbar spine usually ordered to detect the disc herniation. Meanwhile, you should avoid any heavy lifting pulling or pushing. I hope that you will feel better. If your back continue to bother you, I would recommend you to see the orthopedic surgeon for further testing. Rarely, some autoimmune disorders such as rheumatoid arthritis can also cause chronic back pain.

There are several causes of leg pain. You can have sciatica from your back. You can have chronic compartment syndrome of your leg. You can also have a stress fracture of your leg or pulled muscles.If you continue to have pain for several weeks, you should see an orthopedic doctor to work up the cause of your leg pain.
Take care.