Every year in the U.S., more than 210 million people — kids and adults — take part in some sort of sport or organized physical activity. And every year, millions of those athletes are injured while playing their sport. In fact, the CDC says about 9 million sports-related injuries are reported each year among athletes of all ages.
Your joints play an important role in your everyday life, helping you stand, sit, walk and do lots of other common (and not-so-common) tasks. When your joints are healthy, they bend and move without a second thought. But when they’re damaged, even the slightest movement can be painful. Lots of factors contribute to healthy joint function, but one of the biggest influences is your articular cartilage.
Dr. Van Thiel was recently selected as a featured presenter and surgical instructor at the Vail Hip Symposium in January (2020). It’s a great honor to be selected to present at such a prestigious meeting for hip arthroscopy alongside industry leaders like Thomas Byrd, Marc Philippon, and Richard Villar.
Every year in the U.S., millions of people seek medical care for shoulder pain and injury. More than half of those visits are due to rotator cuff injuries. One of the most common is shoulder impingement (sometimes called rotator cuff tendonitis or swimmer’s shoulder).
Dr. Van Thiel was recently in the news regarding the management of knee pain. Read more here... https://www.dotmed.com/news/story/49516 Dr. Van Thiel helps patients from all over Wisconsin and Illinois including Rockford, Elgin, Huntley, Dekalb, Crystal Lake, Barrington, McHenry, and Beloit to find out the cause of their hip pain, providing customized care to relieve your symptoms and improve your ability to move.
