Surgery

WHAT IS AN OSTEOPATHIC PHYSICIAN - D.O.? A Doctor of Osteopathic Medicine (D.O.) is a fully trained and licensed physician who prescribes medications, performs surgery, and utilizes all accepted scientific methods to maintain and restore your optimum health. Today's D.O. provides comprehensive medical care - including preventive medicine, diagnosis, appropriate use of drugs, surgery, manipulative procedures, and hospital referral. And that care is provided with the "D.O.

Kansas men’s basketball coach Bill Self announced that sophomore forward Thomas Robinson underwent successful surgery Friday on a meniscus tear in his right knee and will be out for approximately two weeks. “Thomas injured his knee against Missouri on Monday (Feb. 7),” Self said. “It’s been bothering him since the game and we did an MRI on him this morning and found out he had a meniscus tear in his right knee. Surgery was performed today. It went well but he will be out on either side of two weeks depending on how progress goes.

University of Kansas junior center Markieff Morris will undergo hernia surgery today. Morris’ surgery is expected to keep him out of practice for a week to 10 days, according to Jayhawk head coach Bill Self. “Markieff is having the most minor of surgeries (today),” said Self. “You never want guys to miss any time, but we’re probably talking about missing seven days of practice. He should be able to run and shoot within days, be full-speed within seven to 10 days.

Great news today for the Kansas State Wildcats:  Senior Guard Jacob Pullen has been cleared to play. In a statement released by the school, doctors say further examination showed a bruised, not broken, right hand.  They added the injury will not cause him to miss any practice or playing time. Pullen was driving for a layup with 6 minutes left in the game against Texas when he fell hard on his right wrist.  He was writhing in pain on the court for a couple of minutes before walking to the bench.

by Cindy Klose (WICHITA, Kan) Four years ago, Kansans had a little more interest than usual in the Olympic games as they followed a local athlete's bid for Gold in Athens, Greece. Swimmer, Caroline Bruce competed in the 200 Meter Breaststroke, missing the finals by just 65 one-hundredths of a second. This year, Bruce is sidelined by surgery, and watching the Olympics like the rest of us, on television. Bruce got two airport welcomes in 2004, when she came home from the Olympic trials as a member of the team and then welcomed back from her races in Athens.

By Kim Wilhelm (NEWTON, Kan.) It's something so simply - yet it helps a great deal.  In the past five years, 4,000 Newton Medical Center surgical patients have received what's called a "Pain Pillow. "  The small, handmade pillow is used after abdominal or mastectomy surgery.  The patient places it near the incision to cushion it during a cough.  "After a surgery, we want patients to cough and deep breathe so they don't develop infection," said Karla Stauffer, Nurse Manager of the Surgical Unit.

One Wichita nursing home has decided to have residents rehabbing from strokes, bypass surgery, and more keep up and active...by getting down. At Medicalodge, Otis Dailey likes to say, "Don't nothin' get old but the clothes. "  His job is to get creative with resident rehab. "I don't like to see nobody hurting or in pain or anything like that," says Dailey, "and just to see these people get out of bed and see these people move around and see these people try to carry on a semi-normal life, it makes me feel good.

I can't stop thinking about a man I never met. I knew him only through Twitter, he followed me and I followed him back. He seemed to know a lot about computers, offering help when others asked. And every once in a while he tweeted about his health.   That's the first time I responded to him, commenting on the outcome of a hospital visit. And now, he's gone.  I found that out through Twitter. My husband doesn't understand Twitter or Facebook. He asks, "what do people write on there, just what they're doing?"

Although he's a solid 6'7 Mike Pelfrey isn't imposing.  His long arms and thick legs peg him as a prototypical power pitcher, but it's his bashful grin that makes him approachable.  He's soft-spoken and honest.  He's kind and gracious and talks extensively about his wife and his children.  He is, in every sense of the phrase, a Mid-west kind of guy.  Maybe that's why he's so excited about one of the biggest changes of his life. It was just two years ago that Pelfrey was named the opening day starter for the New York Metropolitans.  The Mets took Pelfrey with the 9th overall pick in the 2005 MLB draft and he quickly worked his way up into the big leagues.  He spent the better part of 7 seasons under the constant scrutiny of the New York market and it all came to a head in 2012.  Pelfrey started three games in 2012 and ended up with 3 no decisions.  Feeling some discomfort in his arm Pelfrey was eventually diagnosed with a tear in his ulnar collateral ligament.  In layman's terms, that means he needed Tommy John surgery.

Chris Sale won his eighth straight decision, Adam Dunn homered in his third straight game and the Chicago White Sox beat the Kansas City Royals 2-1 Sunday. Sale (11-2) is 8-0 with two no-decisions since a May 12 loss to the Royals. He allowed one run and scattered a season-high 10 hits eight innings to lower his earned run average to 2.11, which ranks second on the American League. He struck out four and walked none. Dunn, who leads the league with 28 home runs, drilled a 2-0 pitch from Luis Mendoza (3-6)