Tucson Orthopaedic Institute, P. C.

Need a reason to listen to your body? Try watching runners undergo surgery

by: John Bingham
"Runner's World” Magazine July 14, 2004

Most of us see only the ceilings of operating rooms. We're wheeled in on a gurney, moved to the operating table, where we take a few whiffs of something, and the next thing we know we're in recovery. I think this is just as well. The business of surgery is an awkward juxtaposition of absolute precision and high school shop class. Men and women with decades of training and experience operate on patients with what seem like medical torture devices. I know this because last January I had a chance to observe arthroscopic surgery. And by observe, I mean I was in the operating room, within feet of the patients, within sight of everything going on. More>

By Mike Touzeau
Green Valley News
October 2004

Golf is probably the most popular sport in Green Valley, mirroring its tremendous growth across the country in the last few years. It's estimated there are nearly 40 million golfers, and a fourth of those are 65 or older.

So, it's no wonder with Father Time and new equipment that can generate club head speeds around 100 miles an hour that senior golfers are experiencing an increase in shoulder injuries, according to Tucson orthopedic surgeon Bill Prickett, a golfer himself. More>

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