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Sports Medicine: How to Maintain An Healthy, Active Lifestyle

Maintaining a healthy, active lifestyle is a big help to your physical and mental health. However, you might find yourself unmotivated to exercise. Or perhaps your body is not cooperating as well as you’d like. Handling these hiccups is the key to continue living an active life. When maintaining a healthy lifestyle gets tough, here… 

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What Type of Orthopedic Doctor Should I See?

An orthopedic doctor is a medical professional who focuses on keeping your muscles and bones healthy. Your muscles and bones form the musculoskeletal system, which provides structure to the body and allows you to move around. It also includes connective tissues like ligaments and tendons. An orthopedic doctor can diagnose and treat all kinds of… 

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Questions You Must Ask Your Sports Medicine Doctor

Regular physical activity is a vital component of a healthy lifestyle. However, excessive exercise can increase the risk of injury, especially if you push your body too hard. If you sustain a sports injury or would like to know how to prevent it, it’s worth visiting a sports medicine doctor. During your appointment, here are… 

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How Long Do PRP Injections Last?

In recent decades, the emergence of ground-breaking regenerative medicine approaches has revolutionized how various conditions and injuries are treated. One such treatment approach is the platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy, which has been shown to effectively relieve pain and promote healing in patients suffering from tendonitis, osteoarthritis, tennis elbow, plantar fasciitis, among other musculoskeletal conditions and… 

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Do Sports Medicine Physicians Only Treat Athletes?

A sports medicine doctor is a physician that can treat a wide range of injuries that occur from sports or exercise. The sports medicine specialty requires doctors to undergo one year of training focused on diagnosing, treating, and preventing sports-related injuries. When you hear of sports medicine doctors, you may think they’re for athletes only…. 

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PRP Injections for Joint Pain and Tendonitis

Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy is a regenerative medicine treatment modality that involves drawing a small amount of the patient’s blood, processing it in a centrifuge, then injecting the activated platelets directly into their injured or diseased area. Platelets are tiny blood cells that bind together whenever a blood vessel gets damaged, either due to injury… 

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Using Stem Cells to Help Treat Arthritis and Cartilage Damage

We all want to keep our joints healthy and pain-free so that we can live an active, healthy life. However, the protective cartilage which provides cushioning in our joints naturally wears down over time, and cartilage cannot regrow itself – so we must seek extra help. The good news is that stem cell therapy has… 

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How to Find the Right Orthopedic Surgeon

If you’re living with arthritis or any other musculoskeletal condition that’s causing you chronic or debilitating pain, your best course of action is to see an orthopedic surgeon in order to receive appropriate and effective care. Orthopedic surgeons specialize in both the non-surgical and surgical treatment of the full range of conditions that affect the… 

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Get Healthy with the Help of an Orthopedic Doctor

One of the secrets to living life without physical limits is to take care of your orthopedic health. At All-Star Orthopedics of Austin, our foremost goal is to help our patients feel, move, and live better. This fuels our unwavering dedication to providing the highest quality of restorative and preventive care—the latter of which, we… 

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Why Finding a Good Orthopedic Doctor for Arthroscopy Surgery Is the Key to a Successful Procedure

Arthroscopy is a minimally invasive surgical procedure that allows an orthopedic doctor to diagnose and treat problems inside a joint. The procedure utilizes small surgical instruments and an arthroscope, which is a thin metal tube attached to a fiber-optic video camera for the doctor’s real-time viewing of the joint. The physician can then remove or fix… 

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All-Star Orthopedics offers specialized treatment for bone and joint injuries of the hip, knee, shoulder and elbow. Patients who suffer from sports injury, auto accident, job-related injuries, carpal tunnel, sprain, strain, fracture, ganglion cyst, rotator cuff tear, frozen shoulder, knee ligament tear, osteoarthritis and other orthopedic conditions turn to our orthopedists for comprehensive care. Our experienced orthopedic surgeons also perform knee replacement, reverse shoulder replacement, total shoulder replacement, hip replacement, hip resurfacing and other minimally invasive procedures for faster recovery.