One of the ironies of modern medicine is that it sometimes seems that little attention is devoted to the things…
IN DECADES OF RUNNING, hiking, and climbing, I have had only one ankle sprain. I was running on a dark…
ONE OF MY GOALS in this column is to keep readers up to date on new developments that affect backcountry…
Although back pain gets a lot of attention, shoulder pain is rapidly becoming at least as common a musculoskeletal complaint…
BEAR WITH ME – this column starts with an anatomy lesson. The artery, vein and nerves (brachial plexus) that supply…
Eighteenth- and nineteenth-century physicians were notorious for attaching their names to various diseases, injuries, and body parts. The Irish surgeon…