Dr. Rowlin Lichter
Orthopedic Surgery
Reno, NV
74 years experience male
Locations
Office
Reno, NV
About
Bio
I am retired. I love to work for free!
SpecialtiesDoctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Doctors may have more than one area of specialty interest. Board certification in a specialty area means the doctor has completed formal training and has practice experience in that specialty, and has passed the certification examination from the corresponding accredited medical specialty board.
Orthopedic Surgery
Licenses
United States: Hawaii, Nevada
Languages spoken
English
Doctor Q&A
320 Answers
47 Agrees
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A 29-year-old male asked:
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Orthopedic Surgery 74 years experience
Equilibrate: See a dentist awake of bite problems. Minor mismatching of dentition post mandibular fracture can cause serious TMD.problems that can be corrected by... Read More
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A 22-year-old female asked:
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BENIGN TUMOR: Lymph drainage is not superficial in that area. Although a fatty tumor is most likely , please consult a physician to be sure what it may be.
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A 25-year-old male asked:
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Cam lesions hip: Surgery and diagnosis for these problems is in its infancy. Became popular only a few years ago. Success has been varied. The few patients that I ha... Read More
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A 66-year-old female asked:
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TMD?& leg pain.: Statistically, jaw pain is a bite problem if near the ear or teeth if lower or midline. See dentist. Eli Lilly says " FORTEO is Rx [for] osteoporosis... Read More
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A male asked:
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Partial tear: Could be the rectus femurs of the sartorial.You can easily aggravate a tear by overuse while healing. Give in to it for a couple weeks more. Take Ib... Read More
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A female asked:
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The Black Toe: Subunguinal hematomas (blood under the nail) are caused by shoe friction. Usually the shoe is a little short or the toe box toe shallow. Tumors in toe... Read More
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A 25-year-old male asked:
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No: It is annoying but self-limited. DO NOT CONTINUALLY TEST THE SORENESS. I only prolongs the discomfort. We do not understand the cause yet but it is a ... Read More
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A 21-year-old female asked:
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I can list 15+ Dxs: Too little info. Where in arm is the pain. What makes it better? Worse? Frequency? Character? Persistence? Pattern? Injury? Dominance? Occupation? Def... Read More
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Nerves are Axons: Depends where the damage is.The spinal cord has a very poor prognosis. A spinal nerve can regenerate if the sheath is repaired or intact. In a brachi... Read More
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A 19-year-old female asked:
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Cold immersion: Curious. Should be uncomfortable. "Pain" is in the beholder. If your foot did not change colors and stay blue for hours or many minutes, your respons... Read More
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Rule out Breast Ca: Men can have breast cancer. A lump in a breast, male or female, is cancer until proven otherwise. Have it seen by his doctor---now!
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A 27-year-old female asked:
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Makes no sense: I agree, something else is going on. Sounds like there has been boney damage and possibly osteomyelitis. Not scary because whatever it is is limited b... Read More
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A 46-year-old female asked:
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Hocus Pocus: You are now standing more erect. No-one can make you permanently taller. Nature and time will make you shorter. Yes, lying down will let your discs s... Read More
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A 46-year-old female asked:
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No.
No.: You seem to have a kidney problem. Check it out with doc.
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A female asked:
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Cervical Referral?: For DX purposes the scapula is a BIG area. Very common is burning pain at inner edge scapula & in the upper thoracic spine. The basic problem is ... Read More
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A 37-year-old male asked:
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Yes, too many: If the "hip" pain you complain of is truly hip ,it would be in front halfway up along your groin and 1 inch down. This would fit an inguinal hernia. C... Read More
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A 16-year-old female asked:
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Where?: Could be a sternoclavicular joint irritation from the activity, NSAIDs and ice would help. Deeper is a more rare problem, a thoracic outlet syndrome ... Read More
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A 41-year-old male asked:
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Free weight injury: This is why I prefer machines. Always use a spotter when increasing reps or weights. Overuse should not have lingered three weeks. Sounds most like... Read More
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A male asked:
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Muscle injury: You t use your abdominals to sit up. Sit-ups build the abdominals. If over-worked these muscles they may be complaining by hurting.Try a little Aleve... Read More
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A 16-year-old male asked:
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Pulse: That pulse is the result of your heart causing dilation of the abdominal aorta and periodically increasing the volume of intestinal blood. You'd be d... Read More
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A 34-year-old member asked:
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Groin pain: Many possibilities. Clear up any UTI. Check your hip joint with a simple test: Put right heel on the left kneecap; hold it here and let the right leg... Read More
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A 21-year-old female asked:
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Thromboses: I cannot see that the small amount of ASA would cause menorrhagia. Even better, get up and walk the aisle every hour. If the flight is empty, elevat... Read More
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A 26-year-old male asked:
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Arthritis: Leg pain immediately on resting & resuming activity after rest for a short time is due to arthritis in one or more joints. It would be either an ... Read More
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A 54-year-old male asked:
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Shoe Fitting: Did the metal slide fit over you great toe bone or was it the wooden stick that only measures where the tip of your big toe is? If this was a true "ar... Read More
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A female asked:
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Can be Radicular: You have pain and numbness in a specific area governed by a single spinal nerve root. Most commonly caused by a ruptured ("slipped") intervertebral di... Read More
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A 24-year-old female asked:
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Deconditioned: You did not supply enough info to determine your physical fitness. You need an exam a full physical and, if no contradictions, start an exercise progr... Read More
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A 31-year-old male asked:
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Poor Vision and pain: Eyestrain can cause headaches and fatigue. You appear to have made a good diagnosis. Beware, although 1 and 1 make 2, we are all susceptible to sugge... Read More
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A 22-year-old male asked:
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Low sex drive: Causes of low sex drive in people are so varied I would start with the Family physician who knows the couple. it can be relative to a high sex drive i... Read More
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Muscular if active: There are spleen, large & small bowel to consider in rare instances. If pain is recent, after activity, best bet is a strained muscle and take NSA... Read More
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A male asked:
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Orthopedic Surgery 74 years experience
Achilles Problem?: The tendon is normally loose with the foot pointed down. It is tense with foot pointed down. Lie face down and have someone squeeze your calf. Your f... Read More
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A 21-year-old male asked:
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Arthralgia: You are too young to be old, A leg short by less than 1 inch is within normal. Hip impingement is worrisome for gung ho athletes. If you are obese l... Read More
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Hemoptysis: The answer, unless the tablets were poisonous, is no. Coughing up blood can be a serious sign of lung disease. Are you a smoker ? Get a chest x-ray. ... Read More
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A 28-year-old female asked:
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Orthopedic Surgery 74 years experience
Preventing soft bone: Bones are a living changing structure and respond to stress. Stress them to keep them strong. The answer is simple and often not followed: exercise da... Read More
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A 32-year-old member asked:
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Orthopedic Surgery 74 years experience
Buttock asymmetry: Be sure which is abnormal, the big or the small one. One or all of the three gluteal muscle is shrunken or the other hip bone is abnormal (rare.) If y... Read More
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A 33-year-old male asked:
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Orthopedic Surgery 74 years experience
You are too normal: Enjoy. Less problems with time and a great partner.
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A 55-year-old female asked:
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Orthopedic Surgery 74 years experience
L3-4or 4-5: Usually L3-4 supplies the quad muscle. That pain distribution is ofter sacroiliac referred pain. Put your heel on the opposite kneecap and let your ... Read More
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A 20-year-old female asked:
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Orthopedic Surgery 74 years experience
Corns: This is a "soft" corn over a boney bump on the side of the toe joint, It can be help if you maintain a soft spacer there. Make sure your shoes are w... Read More
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A 27-year-old female asked:
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Circulatory Problem: If t\you are otherwise a health gal you are describing frost bite. If you are a Type I diabetic it could be pressure necrosis. If, by now you are fi... Read More
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A 48-year-old female asked:
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Orthopedic Surgery 74 years experience
Pseudomeningocoele: You a loosing CSF that will cause low pressure HA. The hole in your meninges probable needs a patch to prevent this. Possibilities of spontaneous clo... Read More
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A 60-year-old female asked:
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Orthopedic Surgery 74 years experience
Muscle relaxers: These are meds that help the doctor-not the patient. Only curare (indian arrow poison) relaxes muscle. The so-called muscle relaxers make you sleepy ... Read More
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A 34-year-old female asked:
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Orthopedic Surgery 74 years experience
Disc vs OA: You are describing arthritic facet pain & pain referred to the lower limb. Nerve pain is usually not assoc. w/ relief from exercise and worsening ... Read More
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A 22-year-old female asked:
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Orthopedic Surgery 74 years experience
Shoe must fit well: Seems the shoe is causing improper pressure. Use a metal Bannock device, at most good shoe stores, to get an approximate fit. The size may surprise y... Read More
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A 40-year-old female asked:
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Orthopedic Surgery 74 years experience
Several things: CLBP can be due to disc disruption not see by MRI and requires an uncomfortable test to prove. Unfortunately, it could be a systemic disease (Ankylosi... Read More
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A 43-year-old female asked:
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PatellaChondromalaci: PT is good only if it is emphasizing short arc quadriceps exercises. Build the part of the thigh muscle that controls the knee cap-the VMO. The glocos... Read More
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A 28-year-old female asked:
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No.
Irritation: The irritation will make it worse. Saint it for rest or get a shot of cortisone. Surgery is if all else fails.
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A 29-year-old male asked:
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Post op pain: Much depends on the dental procedure. Usually the post op pain is in the jaw and some is expected. In the check-- unusual. Report it to the dentist ... Read More
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A 29-year-old male asked:
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Yes: A Holter Monitor would rule these out but first you need a suspicion of a problem. Get reassured and talk to your HCP. Good luck.
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A 33-year-old female asked:
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A single dose OK: But messing with your autonomic nervous system can be dangerous for both of you. Sleep if you need it- for both of you. Stimulants can cause all sor... Read More
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Probably lifetime: Sounds like an incomplete closure of a suture in your skull. Not unusual. A a kid these thing close up and the cartilaginous borders harden--but no a... Read More
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A 18-year-old male asked:
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Tension: Namaste. This is the most likely Dx. Check you posture while studying. Use a table or support for the book 14-18" away. Keep head and neck close to ... Read More
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This was very helpful. Thanks! it does hurt & it was inflamed but since im putting this cream on my toe it seems to kind of work but it still hurts & blood comes out on the edge when i mess with it bu...Read More
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This made me feel good. Thanks! I have been stressing about my health a lot lately! My dentist did inform me that I had TMD but I guess I never thought to link the symptoms to that! Thank you so much!...Read More
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Education & Training
Medical/Graduate school
Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, IL
Graduated 1949MD
Residency
Cook County Chicago IL
Awards
Top Orthopedic Surgeon , Third Place, National - Spring
2016
Top Doctor, Third Place, Nevada - Spring
2016
Most Influential Doctor, First Place, Reno Region - Spring
2016
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