NORTH PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Nearly everyone knows someone who's had experience with a hernia injury. However, many people don't really understand them, or the best ways to treat them. "I was leaning ...

Health care providers are constantly evolving treatments for complicated conditions to provide patients with the greatest amount of benefit while avoiding any adverse effects, like scarring. Marcus ...

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: My 17-year-old son plays high school soccer. After a recent game, he began complaining of pain in his lower abdomen that radiates down to his inner thigh. His primary care physician ...

A hiatal hernia is when part of your stomach or another organ slips through a hole in your diaphragm, the parachute-like organ above your stomach. Mild hiatal hernias often don’t cause symptoms, while ...

Patient-reported outcomes have become a critical part of improving surgical care because of their ability to capture patient experiences, such as quality of life and satisfaction, that can help inform ...

A group of UAB researchers developed a web-based decision support tool in their recent publication, “Patient, Nurse, Medical Assistant, and Surgeon Perspectives Inform the Development of a Decision ...

Dr. Mark Zoland, founder of Core Surgical and a nationally recognized expert in sports hernia and core muscle injuries, was recently invited to present at the Hip Preservation Conference hosted by the ...

THE literature is replete with excellent accounts of the clinical aspects and the surgical management of all of the classic types of diaphragmatic hernia. With the excellent contributions of ...

Multiple types of hernias can cause back pain, including abdominal hernias and spinal hernias. Treatment can depend on the location and severity. Noticed some pain and maybe a strange bulge, perhaps ...

WITH the development of safer anesthesia and better surgical technic over the past thirty years the repair of esophageal hiatus hernia has become a well recognized surgical procedure. It is ordinarily ...