Dear Dr. Roach: I'm 70 years old and do 400 push-ups every morning. I also lift weights two days a week. I have developed an epigastric hernia. It doesn't bother me, and my primary doctor said leave ...

Hernia is a painful and troublesome condition that affects the person inside out. It occurs on when an organ pushes through an opening in the muscle. This creates a bulge on the part of the body where ...

LOS ANGELES, Aug. 1, 2014 /PRNewswire/ --For men, women and children alike, Dr. Shrin Towfigh at the Beverly Hills Hernia Center represents the best chance at relief from abdominal hernia and other ...

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 ...

Hernias can make you feel bloated and gassy, like there’s pressure in your abdomen that can only be relieved by burping or passing gas. Hernias happen when fatty tissue or parts of an organ squeeze ...

The lump of the hernia is due to the weakness in the wall of the muscles of the abdomen or groin. The content of the sac is usually a part of the intestine. Synonyms and related terms – Inguinal ...

Though they’re amongst the most common surgeries done in India and the world, Rakesh’s (name changed) hernia condition gave doctors at Lifeline Multispeciality Hospital a lot of work. The 71-year-old ...

2. CPT 49496 (Repair, initial inguinal hernia, full term infant younger than age 6 months, or preterm infant older than 50 weeks postconception age and younger than age 6 months at the time of surgery ...

But that's exactly what they are (def not lovely tho)-little bulges that occur when an internal organ pushes through the wall of muscle or tissue surrounding it, says Mary Ann Hopkins, M.D. But that's ...