Sports Medicine

• Meeting News Coverage Video

• Biologic enhancements for rotator cuff repair not an answer at this time

• Orthopedics Today, February 2013
• KOHALA COAST, Hawaii — Widespread use of platelet-rich plasma and biologic enhancements are not the answer to the challenges of rotator cuff repair...More »

• Shoulder Rehabilitation Using Medicine Ball

• January 12, 2013
• Techniques of dynamic shoulder rehabilitation exercise using a medicine ball are demonstrated....More »

• In the Journals

• Scapular rehab program reduced impingement pain in overhead athletes

• December 10, 2012
• Patients who participated in overhead athletics and experienced impingement symptoms showed significant improvement in pain and function after completing...More »

• Rotator Cuff Strengthening Exercises

• December 8, 2012
• In this video the patient has progressed his shoulder strengthening exercises following from the scapula stability work by using a theraband to challenge ......More »

• Field Facts

• Amputee team completes Baja 1000

• November 27, 2012
• Team HERO riders Jim Wazny, Chris Ridgway and Mario Panagiotopoulos, all left-leg amputees, competed as the first all adaptive team in the Baja 1000, from...More »

• In the Journals

• ACL patients with intervention surgery show higher 1-year return to pivot sport rates

• November 21, 2012
• Patients who received treatment for their ACL injuries without surgical intervention had lower return to activity rates for pivoting sports at 1-year...More »

• Report finds increased patient length of stay as imaging use declines

• October 23, 2012
• As imaging use declined during the past decade, the average length of stay for Medicare patients increased, highlighting one possible downside to...More »

• CME Article CME

• Diagnosis and Treatment of Sports-Related Traumatic Brain Injury

• Psychiatric Annals, October 2012, Volume 42 Issue 10
• CME Educational Objectives
  1. Understand the history of traumatic brain injury in sport.
  2. Learn proposed etiologic factors of sports-related traumatic...More »

• Game Changing Surgery Options for Athletes

• October 11, 2012
• Pro or not, injuries are an athlete’s worst fear. See some of the latest medical breakthroughs getting people back in the game without pain....More »

• Field Facts

• Amputee Racers Hope to Become First Adaptive Team to Complete Baja 1000

• O&P Business News, October 2012
• On November 15, a team of champion motocross racers will attempt to not only finish the most grueling off-road race, the Baja 1000, but become the first...More »

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