Terms of Use
Effective date: November 11, 2026
By using this website you accept the terms below. If you do not accept them, please do not use the site.
This website is not medical advice
This is the part that matters most, so it goes first.
The condition pages, the rehabilitation protocols, and everything else published here is general information. It describes how injuries and procedures usually work. It cannot tell you what is wrong with you, and it is not a substitute for being examined by a physician who can look at your particular situation.
Two people with the same diagnosis often need different treatment. Nothing you read here should be used to decide whether you need care, to delay getting it, or to disregard advice a physician has already given you.
Reading this site does not make you our patient
Using this website, downloading a protocol, or sending us a question does not create a physician–patient relationship. That relationship begins when you are seen in one of our offices and we agree to provide care.
In an emergency, do not use this website
Call 911 or go to the nearest emergency department if you have any of the following after an injury:
- An obvious deformity, or a suspected major fracture or dislocation
- An open fracture, or bone visible through the skin
- Loss of circulation to an arm or leg — cold, pale, blue, or no pulse
- New significant numbness, weakness, or loss of function
- Severe uncontrolled bleeding
- Rapidly increasing swelling, or severe pain that seems out of proportion
- Signs of serious infection — significant redness and swelling with fever, drainage, or rapidly worsening symptoms
- Any significant head, neck, or spine injury, particularly with neurological symptoms
- Any major trauma with possible injuries beyond the musculoskeletal system
For less severe, stable injuries with no immediate threat to the limb or your overall health, calling the office first is reasonable. When you are uncertain and symptoms are severe or getting worse quickly, go to emergency care rather than wait.
About the rehabilitation protocols
The protocols published here are written for patients recovering from specific procedures, and they are shared so that patients and their physical therapists can work from the same document.
They are a general framework, not a personalised plan. If your surgeon has given you different instructions, follow your surgeon's instructions. If you are recovering from surgery performed somewhere else, show the protocol to the surgeon who operated on you before following it.
Patient stories
Some pages carry comments from patients about their experience with this practice. They are published with permission and lightly edited only for spelling and punctuation.
Please read them for what they are: one person's experience, not a prediction of yours. Results after an orthopaedic injury or operation depend on the injury, your age and health, how the surgery goes, and how rehabilitation goes. Nobody can promise you a particular outcome, and nothing in a patient's story should be read as one.
Email is not secure
If you email the practice, please do not include details about your health. Ordinary email is not a secure channel. Anything you email us is not part of your medical record, is not monitored continuously, and must never be used for anything urgent. Call the office instead.
Accuracy
We work to keep this site accurate and current, but medicine changes and errors happen. We do not warrant that everything here is complete, current, or free of mistakes. If you spot something wrong, please tell us.
Our content
The text, images, diagrams, and documents on this site belong to OC Sports & Orthopaedics or are used with permission. You are welcome to read them, print them, and share them for your own care or your family's. Please do not republish them commercially, or present them as your own, without asking us first.
Links to other sites
We link to a handful of outside resources where they are genuinely useful. We do not control those sites and we are not responsible for what they contain.
Limitation of liability
To the fullest extent the law allows, OC Sports & Orthopaedics and its physicians and staff are not liable for any loss or injury arising from use of this website or reliance on its contents. This does not limit any liability that cannot be limited by law, and nothing here affects our responsibilities to you as a patient if you are one.
Governing law
These terms are governed by the laws of the State of California.
Changes
We may update these terms. The effective date at the top will change when we do.
Contact
Questions about these terms can go to the practice at (949) 393-3193 or info@ocsportsortho.com.