The health system in orthopedics can improve by prioritizing patient care and taking the necessary time to address their needs. By focusing on patient-centered care, orthopedic providers can enhance the overall patient experience and outcomes. This can be achieved through effective communication, thorough assessments, and personalized treatment plans. Additionally, investing in advanced technology and resources can streamline processes and improve efficiency. By dedicating sufficient time to each patient, orthopedic providers can ensure accurate diagnoses, effective treatment plans, and better patient satisfaction.
Wednesday, June 28, 2023
Medical System is Not Always Your Friend
One of the toughest lessons I have had to tackle is the importance of being cautious as a patient in the medical system. It is all too common to trust professionals blindly, such as doctors, physical therapists, nurses, and other so-called professionals. Unfortunately, I personally experienced being treated as just a number in the system, where my well-being was overshadowed by financial considerations. It is disheartening to know that some of these individuals behave differently when they think no one is watching, or when they lack accountability for their actions, even if those actions have life long consequences for their patient, families & society as a whole. One day they will answer.
Truth Be Told
Welcome to a thought-provoking blog post, where we delve into an ethical dilemma that has been quietly plaguing the fields of physical therapy & orthopedics - falsifying records. In a realm built on trust and professionalism, the concept of doctors manipulating patient information raises profound concerns. Join us as we shed light on this pressing issue and explore why addressing it is not just necessary but crucial for upholding the integrity of medical practice. Brace yourself for an eye-opening journey through the complexities surrounding falsified records in orthopedics, physical therapists etc etc etc because this ethical conundrum demands our attention now more than ever.
Do you know the law is working with the Doctors, physical therapists and other so called "professionals" for example if you discover a flaw in your records & you bring it to their attention then you send a letter & say please add this to my chart they probably won't do it & they also get to leave their false information intact even though they know its not true. And frankly they really don't give a dam about what you say or do. Perhaps that law needs to changed since it goes in favorable light of the practitioner doing business with you as the focal point. It doesn't matter if they falsify and/or embellish the "story" to glorify themselves & negate the patients rights. At this time its important that the laws are given some attention and rewritten in order to protect the well-being of patients experiencing significant abuse impacting their lives from the action or inaction of the professionals who treated them leaving their life impacted forever. So remember just because its written down doesn't mean its true.
Friday, June 16, 2023
Celery & Your Bones
Celery is very high in calcium, which help to regenerate and strengthen damaged bones. Celery is also high in Vitamin K which plays an important role in bone metabolism and protection against osteoporosis
Tuesday, June 13, 2023
Begin Here
Let us begin again with the rest of the story by acknowledging that healing must start from within ourselves. The intention of this grassroots movement is to educate & empower others so when approaching the medical staff: "approach with caution" One might not know the whole story, with me but that does not negate its happening. In time I will do my best to share it with you. For me & others it is crucial to share my story (piece meal) to help myself and others. This should never have happened; and never would have if it wasn't for the deliberate action of a narcisstic psychopath with nefarious intentions. As I proceed forward I hope that the experiences that we share can potentially help someone else avoid some of the pitfalls within the meical system & some of the pitfalls you can encounter like I did with a physical therapist who probably is mentally ill but never diagnosed until now.. Aa we pursue our life paths, we may encounter others who are on different journeys, yet the common goal is to heal. My story is the exception rather than the rule. Most of the times people go into medicine : namely physical therapy & orthopedic medicine to help others and not just for the power & monies associated with it all.
Life has taught me that people can be inauthentic, fake, phoney, impostors, insane, narcissistic, cowardly, and mean-spirited. Take, for instance, the physical therapist who caused me great harm April 23, 2019 in Havertown PA showing absolutely no concern or empathy whatsoever after having going to him for over a year since he encouraged me getting the prescription renewed as hehe kept taking the 💰 money . I believe he thought about over and over again hought about his actions prior to doing them with ill intentions in his mind & heart; so sad and unexpected. Looking back, his unwillingness to communicate speaks volumes about him as a professional and, most importantly, a person. His online persona as a "Mr. Nice Guy" with pictures of dead bugs and his portrayal of the perfect lifestyle using his children as props is nothing but a facade. How can someone be so messed up that they would want to hurt someone?I'm no cut out of that cloth but everyone is not me
Tuesday, June 6, 2023
Nobody's Perfect
There is a very real danger of our drifting into an attitude of contempt for humanity. We know quite well that we have no right to do so, and that it would lead us into the most sterile relation to our fellow-men. The following thoughts may keep us from such a temptation. It means that we at once fall into the worst blunders of our opponents. The man who despises another will never be able to make anything of him. Nothing that we despise in the other man is entirely absent from ourselves. We often expect from others more than we are willing to do ourselves. Why have we hitherto though so intemperately about man and his frailty and temptability? We must learn to regard people less in the light of what they do or omit to do, and more in the light of what they suffer. The only profitable relationship to others – and especially to our weaker brethern – is one of love, and that means the will to hold fellowship with them. God himself did not despise humanity, but became man for men’s sake.
– Deitrich Bonhoeffer, “Letters and Papers From Prison“
Sunday, June 4, 2023
Buyer Beware
When a medical professional displays lack of empathy or acts overtly egotistical in private behind closed doors while you are one on one it can be a frustrating and even traumatic experience for patients. In cases where a patient has been injured or mistreated by a healthcare provider, it is important to take action even if it means starting a journal to help yourself process what's happened and/or what is happening currently. Sometimes it can be a lot to handle. Journaling can be one way to help you to release your emotions and document your personal journey.
First, it's important to speak up and advocate for yourself. Don't be afraid to voice your concerns and ask questions about the treatment you are receiving. If you feel uncomfortable or unsure about a particular procedure or diagnosis, don't hesitate to seek a second opinion. You can also look & post on social media.
If you have been injured or mistreated by a medical professional, it is important to report the incident. You can file a complaint with the hospital or healthcare provider, as well as with regulatory bodies such as state medical boards or nursing associations. This may or may not help ; possibly preventing the same thing from happening to someone else in the future. Too many patients feel helpless at the hands of the professionals often feeling overwhelmed & thats not good. This is one of the reasons we are creating this platform for our fellow travelers. Most professionals really care but in my case & some others I have spoken to its astonishing to see the lack of empathy & false reports that some get away with at the expense of the patient. But don't worry there is a Higher Authority that one is God and He will handle it in His time & His ways. ISAIAH 54:17. Yes but in the meantime what can you do to advocate for yourself and aid your healing process.
It is also important to seek legal advice if you have been injured as a result of medical malpractice. A qualified attorney can help you understand your rights and options for pursuing compensation. It is a long and arduous task and that is one of the reasons why some people are arrogant, unpredictable and two faced. It's been many peoples personal experience.
In any case, it is important to prioritize your own health and well-being. Seek out support from loved ones or a therapist if necessary, and don't hesitate to make changes to your medical care if you feel uncomfortable or unsafe.
Saturday, May 13, 2023
Saturday, May 6, 2023
What is a Professional?
A professional is a member of a profession or any person who works in a specified professional activity. The term also describes the standards of education and training that prepare members of the profession with the particular knowledge and skills necessary to perform their specific role within that profession.
Thursday, March 16, 2023
Cowards Have No place in Physical Therapy
“Courage and conviction are powerful weapons against an enemy who depends only on fists or guns. Animals know when you are afraid; a coward knows when you are not.”
– David Seabur
Sunday, February 12, 2023
3D Implants Help Bone Grow
3D-Printed Ceramic Implants Help Regrow Bone
AUGUST 2ND, 2018 
Researchers at NYU have developed 3D-printed ceramic implants that dissolves slowly, allowing bone to grow in their place. The implants can be tailored to mimic the shape of the missing bone, and are chemically-coated to stimulate bone growth. The research team hopes that the technology will be useful for patients with non-healing bone defects.
At present, large non-healing bone defects are difficult to treat. One option is bone grafting, but this involves damaging bone elsewhere, and isn’t always suitable. To address this issue, researchers are developing a variety of implants in the lab that can help to stimulate bone healing. 3D printing is particularly promising for such applications, as it allows researchers to produce patient-specific implants that match the precise size and shape required to fill specific bone defects.
This research group has developed a 3D-printed ceramic implant, and claims that it more closely resembles the shape and composition of real bone, compared with other flexible experimental bone implants. While flexibility is an advantage, many flexible implants contain plastic elasticizers and haven’t shown the same healing abilities to date.
The ceramic implants contain beta tricalcium phosphate, which is similar to components in natural bone, making the implants resorbable over time. They are also coated in dipyridamole, a blood thinning agent that stimulates bone growth and attracts bone stem cells to the implant.
“Dipyridamole has proven to be key to the implant’s success,” said Bruce N. Cronstein, a researcher involved in the study. “And because the implant is gradually resorbed, the drug is released a little at a time and locally into the bone, not into the whole body, thereby minimizing risks of abnormal bone growth, bleeding, or other side effects.”
So far, the researchers have tested the implants in bone defects in mouse skulls and rabbit limbs. They found that approximately 77% of the implant was resorbed by the animals over six months, and that new bone grew into the implant over this period. In some animals, there was almost no trace of the beta tricalcium phosphate in the defects in follow-up CT scans. Impressively, the new bone was as strong as undamaged bone.
“Our 3D scaffold represents the best implant in development because of its ability to regenerate real bone,” said Paulo Coelho, another researcher involved in the study. “Our latest study results move us closer to clinical trials and potential bone implants for children living with skull deformations since birth, as well as for veterans seeking to repair damaged limbs.”
See a video about the technology below.
Study in Journal of Tissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine: Form and Functional Repair of Long Bone Using 3D Printed Bioactive Scaffolds…
Friday, June 10, 2022
3D Printed Tissuex
Rice University graduate student Sean Bittner holds a 3D-printed scaffold created to help heal osteochondral injuries. Credit: Jeff Fitlow/Rice University
The scientists at Rice University and the University of Maryland engineered scaffolds that replicate the physical characteristics of osteochondral tissue -- hard bone beneath a compressible layer of cartilage that appears as the smooth surface on the ends of long bones.
Injuries to these bones, from small cracks to pieces that break off, can be painful and often stop athletes' careers in their tracks. Osteochondral injuries can also lead to disabling arthritis.
The gradient nature of cartilage-into-bone and its porosity have made it difficult to reproduce in the lab, but scientists have used 3D printing to fabricate what they believe will eventually be a suitable material for implantation.
"Athletes are disproportionately affected by these injuries, but they can affect everybody," said Sean Bittner, a third-year bioengineering graduate student at Rice, a National Science Foundation fellow. "I think this will be a powerful tool to help people with common sports injuries."
The key is mimicking tissue that turns gradually from cartilage (chondral tissue) at the surface to bone (osteo) underneath. The researchers led by bioengineer Antonios Mikos 3D printed a scaffold with custom mixtures of a polymer for the former and a ceramic for the latter with imbedded pores that would allow the patient's own cells and blood vessels to infiltrate the implant, eventually allowing it to become part of the natural bone and cartilage.
"For the most part, the composition will be the same from patient to patient," Bittner said. "There's porosity included so vasculature can grow in from the native bone. We don't have to fabricate the blood vessels ourselves."
In the future, the project will involve figuring out how to print an osteochondral implant that perfectly fits the patient and allows the porous implant to grow into and knit with the bone and cartilage.
Their results are reported in Acta Biomaterialia.
Friday, May 20, 2022
Should You File a Complaint?
You may request a Statement of Complaint form by calling 1-800-822-2113 or 717-783-4849.
Sunday, May 8, 2022
Saturday, May 7, 2022
Cornell Study on Psychopaths
Using computerized text analysis, Cornell professor of communication Jeff Hancock and colleagues at the University of British Columbia found that psychopathic criminals tend to make identifiable word choices when talking about their crimes. Hancock and UBC professor of psychology Michael Woodworth discussed the implications of their study at the October 17, 2011 Inside Cornell session at Cornell's ILR Conference Center in Midtown Manhattan.
Saturday, April 30, 2022
Friday, April 29, 2022
Friday, April 22, 2022
Tuesday, April 12, 2022
Friday, February 4, 2022
Trust Matters
Medical malpractice injuries go beyond the body – they severely damage the trust between a patient and their medical professional. Patients depend upon the expertise and professional judgment from doctors, nurses, and other medical professionals, and when these professionals violate their role by deviating from the accepted standard of practice and causing harm to the patient, the damage caused can be extremely traumatic & change the entire course of your life. A harmful deviation from the standard of care by a health care practitioner could lead to a medical malpractice lawsuit in Pennsylvania
Sunday, January 23, 2022
Sunday, January 2, 2022
Custom Implants
Source: pubmed.gov
Case Reports
3D Printed Acetabular Components for Complex Revision Arthroplasty
Indian J Orthop. .
Abstract
Recent studies have shown high early failure rates with Cup Cage constructs in complex revision surgery for Paprosky 3B acetabular defects. As a result, the use of 3D printed custom-made acetabular components has become more common. In this case series, we present two cases that demonstrate the latest advancement in 3D printed implants for severe acetabular bone loss. The follow up was 3 and 7 years. Neither patient has undergone revision surgery of the acetabular component to date. One patient sustained a femoral peri-prosthetic fracture requiring plate fixation. This case study demonstrates that 3D printed implants have excellent intraoperative and immediate postoperative outcomes in revision surgery for severe acetabular bone defects.
Keywords: Acetabular defects; Acetabular implants; Acetabular replacement; Revision surgery.
© Indian Orthopaedics Association 2021.
Conflict of interest statement
Conflict of interestOn behalf of all authors, the corresponding author states that there is no conflict of interest.
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Sunday, November 28, 2021
Remember This
It has been revealed to me that you are not alone on your journey. There is a purpose for your pain & that purpose is to help one another on the road called life. If there is anyone who would want to harm you they will be answering to the OG somewhere along the the road.
Wednesday, October 6, 2021
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