Sunday, March 8, 2015

The Best Orthopedic Surgeons In Houston TX

By Leslie Ball


The branch of medicine that deals with injuries and diseases of the bones, tendons, and ligaments is called orthopedics. With representatives in almost all major league sports, you can always be sure of finding the best orthopedic surgeons in Houston. In addition to injuries incurred in sports like basketball, football, soccer, and baseball, orthopods, as they are affectionately known, treat congenital bone and soft tissue disorders, tumors, trauma, degenerative diseases and infections.

While it's not the capital of Texas, Houston is certainly the most populous city in the entire state. The official nickname of the the metropolis is "Space City" for its proximity to NASA's Mission Control Center at Johnson Space Center. Like New York, Houston has a large number of Fortune 500 companies.

Space City also happens to be the most culturally diverse city in both the United States as a whole and in the state of Texas itself. Visitors to the city, more than 7,000 each year, are treated to a wide variety of institutions and exhibits located under the umbrella of the popular Museum District.

The people in Space City love their sports teams and have one for every major league except hockey. The Minute Maid Stadium, home of the Astros baseball team, is just a stone's throw from Houston TX 77030. The city boasts two national soccer teams, the Dynamo men's team and the Dash women's soccer league. The Texans have replaced the Oilers in the hearts and minds of NFL football fans, while the rockets are the local NBA basketball team and have been for more than 40 years.

Of course, all this interest in sports spawns a lot of sports injuries at the school, college, and professional levels. Common baseball injuries include sprains, or ligament injuries, muscle pulls, bruises and other soft tissue injuries. As a result, baseball players make demands on the time of physiotherapists, osteopaths, and chiropractors more so than orthopedic surgeons.

Basketball players, on the other hand, tend to hurt their lower extremities, with half of them visiting the doctor for injuries to the foot and ankle. This is reasonable, when you consider their work consists mainly of stopping hard on a dime and pivoting rapidly in a different direction. More than 10 percent of injuries are to the hip and thigh, with barely 10 percent involving the knee. Like baseball, the most common injuries in basketball are sprains.

Soccer players have a similar injury profile to the basketball players, most commonly damaging the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL). They also have a propensity for hurting their feet and ankles, just like their pals in the gym. The hamstrings, the muscles at the posterior thigh, are also frequently hurt.

Isn't it ironic that the players who carry the heaviest protection against injuries are the ones who suffer the most serious injuries. These guys also take the hardest hits to the neck, head and shoulders. These guys get paid a lot of money to take the severe hits that generate these injuries and they demand the best in medical care.




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