Dr. Ian Charles Duncan MD
Sports Medicine Specialist | Sports Medicine
820 S AKERS VISALIA CA, 93277Practice Philosophy
Alternative Medicine
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Dr. Ian Duncan is a Sports Medicine Family Practitioner in VISALIA, CA. As a Sports Medicine Family Practitioner, Dr. Duncan is trained to assess, diagnose, prevent, and treat sports injuries in patients of all ages, and refer those patients to further services if needed. Sports Medicine Family Practitioners must complete specialized training in order to help each patient maximize function and improve quality of life.
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Dr. Ian Charles Duncan MD's Expert Contributions
Is it advisable to wear knee pads while running?
There is no great reason I can think of to wear knee pads while running. Sure, they might help if you were to trip and fall, but given how infrequent this is, and how annoying it feels to run with kneepads on, I wouldn’t recommend it. Sincerely, Ian Duncan, MD READ MORE
My husband had a ligament tear and the blood spread inside the knee. What are the repercussions?
For better or worse, like all online/phone conversations, it’s hard to accurately answer this question without a lot more detail, like how old is he, what ligament was torn, was the ligament repaired/reconstructed at the time of the surgery, where was the blood -- in the knee joint (an effusion) or just bruising all over the leg? Is your husband on any blood thinners, and does he have any medical problems? I really can’t add much without this info, but in case this is just a general question about bleeding from a ligament tear: it is very common to get bleeding, sometimes a lot, with ligament tears. And generally, nothing needs to be done about the bleeding; the body will usually take care of the blood by eventually resorting it. I occasionallly aspirate (remove) blood from a knee after a ligament tear if the knee is so swollen with a large effusion in the knee joint that the joint is tight, the skin is stretched, and the patient is very uncomfortable. But I do this less than 5% of the time since there is a risk of infection with an aspiration. I’ve never done surgery just to remove a bloody effusion, but I suppose it’s not unreasonable depending on the details of the case, and I suspect there was another reason to operate (either to clean up torn tissue or, more commonly, to repair/fix what was torn). Hope this helps, Ian Duncan, MD READ MORE
Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- The "aura" sign: an unusual cultural variant affecting MR imaging.
- Tensin1 and a previously undocumented family member, tensin2, positively regulate cell migration.
- Embolization of a bullet in the internal carotid artery.
- Kinking of bilateral internal carotid arteries that mimics posttraumatic radiographic prevertebral soft-tissue widening.
- Microsnare-assisted mechanical removal of intraprocedural distal middle cerebral arterial thromboembolism.
- Circumferential flow reduction during percutaneous embolotherapy of extracranial vascular malformations: the "cookie-cutter" technique.
- Endovascular management of intracranial aneurysms--current status in South Africa.
- Percutaneous management of concomitant post-traumatic high vertebrovertebral and caroticojugular fistulas using balloons, coils, and a covered stent.
- Accessory meningeal arterial supply to the posterior nasal cavity: another reason for failed endovascular treatment of epistaxis.
- Distal embolization and local vessel wall ulceration after gastric variceal obliteration with N-butyl-2-cyanoacrylate: a case report and review of the literature.
- Acute ischemic sialadenitis following facial artery embolization.
- Direct percutaneous intratumoral bleomycin injection for palliative treatment of
- Endovascular treatment of intractable epistaxis--results of a 4-year local audit.
- Intralesional bleomycin injections for the palliation of epistaxis in hereditary hemorrhagic telangiectasia.
- Percutaneous endovascular occlusion of symptomatic coronary arteriovenous fistulas with cyanoacrylate.
Treatments
- Arthroscopic Surgery Of The Hip, Shoulder And Knee
- Joint Replacement
- Complex Fractures
- Hand Surgery
- General Orthopedics
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