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Los Angeles Orthopedic Surgery Specialists and Advanced Orthopedics welcomes Board Certified Orthopedic Surgeon: Dr. Daniel Acevedo, M.D.

Los Angeles Orthopedic Surgery Specialists and Advanced Orthopedics welcomes first-ever Pain Management Doctor: Dr. Jason Kaushik, M.D.

Whether it’s a knee replacement or surgery for a bad ankle sprain, you’ll need to make a few lifestyle adjustments during your recovery. Here, we review five preparation tips that will help you weather this time more easily.

Knee pain has a way of hijacking your life, making every step a dreaded one. One frontline treatment for knee pain is interventional injections. We look at knee injections here, including how often you should have them.

To call your knees important joints seems like an understatement given how much you rely on them. When there’s a problem, such as meniscus tear, surgical repair can often be the best way to regain pain-free movement.

One of the clear and present dangers when you have a diabetes diagnosis is problems with your foot health. To avoid serious infection and amputation, we urge you to follow these at-home practices.

You’ve decided your knee has become more of a liability than an asset and you’re having us replace the joint. With that decision made, you want to know what to expect during your recovery. Let’s take a look.

Eating, driving, working — it’s hard to overstate how much you rely on your shoulders throughout the day. So, when something goes wrong, you want to do what you can to restore function, which might involve surgery.

You’ve joined the growing ranks of people who are struggling with joint pain and inflammation due to arthritis, and you want to know about treatment options. Here, we explore how joint injections can help.

Most everyone has experienced pain in their ankles at some point, making deciding when to get help a gray area. Let’s look at some black-and-white facts about ankle pain and when intervention is a good idea.

Los Angeles Orthopedic Surgery Specialists and Advanced Orthopedics, a leading orthopedic health services practice, is proud to offer wide-awake hand surgery at our clinic located on the campus of Adventist Health White Memorial Hospital in East LA.

Your knee hurts, and you’re of a mind to simply grin and bear it in the hopes that the discomfort will go away. It might, or the problem can become much larger, which always makes seeing an expert a good idea.

You spend a large part of your day at a keyboard and you’re worried about developing carpal tunnel syndrome. The risk factors for carpal tunnel syndrome include computer work, but there are other factors that are far more influential.

The human body is incredible — it contains all of the resources it needs to heal and repair itself. When these resources are overwhelmed, however, we look for ways to amplify the healing, which we accomplish with platelet-rich plasma therapy.

Does your rotator cuff injury require surgery? If shoulder pain interferes with your work or daily activities and doesn’t seem to be getting better, you may need surgery to heal.