Jan 26, 2016 | Joints and Bones, Spine/Lumbar
The spinal column, better known as your backbone, is a strong yet flexible multipurpose structure. It holds the weight of your head and torso and allows you to move in many directions. If it were nothing but a straight, inflexible rod, we’d walk like robots from...
Dec 27, 2015 | Joints and Bones, Spine/Lumbar
Joint Replacement SEBRING — About 30 percent of Newsom Eye & Laser Center’s business comes from medical tourists like a security company owner and his wife from the Virgin Islands. When they were ready for cataract surgery, both came to Highlands County. “January...
Dec 15, 2015 | Joints and Bones, Uncategorized
BY ANN M. O’PHELAN Highlands Today correspondent SEBRING — As a medical resident, Dr. Maurice Tom Pak was always interested in technology. “After residency I completed a Sports Medicine Fellowship where 90 percent of the surgery was arthroscopic,” Tom Pak said. Those...
Oct 21, 2015 | Joints and Bones
The hip joint is one of the most important joints in the human body. It allows us to walk, run, and jump. It bears our body’s weight and the force of the strong muscles of the hip and leg. Yet the hip joint is also one of our most flexible joints and allows a greater...
