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Little leaguer's elbow or shoulder is caused by overuse of the arm. It's common among children who play sports, like baseball. Learn about treatment.

Learn how to get up and out of bed after bypass surgery. This is to help protect your incision and healing breastbone.

Labyrinthitis is the inflammation of part of the inner ear called the labyrinth. It usually affects only 1 ear. A nerve in the head called the eighth cranial nerve may also be inflamed. Labyrinthitis causes a sense of spinning and hearing loss. In most people these go away over time.

A Lisfranc joint injury is a kind of injury to the bones or ligaments in the arch of your foot. The injury gets its name from a French surgeon.

This is a type of surgery on the bones of your backbone (spine). This type of surgery uses smaller cuts (incisions) than standard surgery. This often causes less harm to nearby muscles and other tissues.

A lipoma is a lump under the skin that's made of fat. It's not cancer (benign). Learn more about how lipomas occur, symptoms, treatment choices, and possible complications.

Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) is a procedure that destroys cells in the esophagus that may turn into cancer. It can help prevent or treat cancer of the esophagus.

Bone metastasis is when an area of bone has cancer that spread there from another part of the body. Breast, prostate, lung, kidneys, and thyroid cancers are more likely to spread to the bone.

Malignant hyperthermia is a rare reaction to certain medicines used for general anesthesia. The problem is severe and life threatening, but it can be treated.