Posts Tagged "hernia"

Abdominal Hernias

Posted by Dr. Buck on Sep 26, 2011 in Diagnosis | 2 comments

Hi, this is Dr. Parker, General Surgeon, and in this post I want to talk about hernias.  Often I have patients come to my office with a diagnosis of a hernia from their primary care physician, but are not exactly clear on what a hernia is, or why it is significant.  These are a couple of the questions I hope to clear up in this post. A hernia is an abnormal hole, most commonly in the abdominal wall, that’s it.  Think of the belly as having many “layers”, and generally there are one or two “strong” layers.  When these strong layers of tissue become weak, and...