The recent debate among athletes, athletic trainers and sports medicine physicians focuses on concussion awareness. Here are 10 stories about the trend towards concussion awareness and brain injury prevention.
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Erik N. Zeegen, MD, associate medical director of the Valley Hip & Knee Institute in Tarzana, Calif., learned the important role surgeons play in their patients' lives while accompanying his father, an ophthalmologist, during his Saturday morning rounds.
Athens (Ga.) Orthopedic Surgery Center has recently undertaken a number of efforts to grow the facility. Denise Kesler, director for the ASC, discusses some challenges the surgery center faced during the projects.
The visual analog scale and the 5-point vertebral rating scale, two tools used to assess the intensity of pain in patients with spinal conditions, are not interchangeable, which means physicians should not compare results from each scale, according to an…
Patients with spinal chord injuries are now undergoing stem cell treatment in Atlanta and Chicago through a trial run by Geron Corp., a biotech company based in Menlo Park, Calif., to test the safety of using embryonic stem cells to…
The Portland Pirates, a minor professional hockey team in the American Hockey League, recently named OA Centers for Orthopaedics as the official team physicians for this coming season, according to a practice news release.
Peter J. Millett, a physician at The Steadman Clinic in Vail, Colo., has been elected to serve on the National Steering Committee for the Sports Trauma and Overuse Prevention campaign, according to a Vail Daily news report.
Alphatec Holdings, a Carlsbad, Calif.-based medical device company focused on treating spinal disorders, has named former Johnson & Johnson CFO Michael O'Neill as the company's new CFO, vice president and treasurer, according to a company news release.
There is no statistical difference in outcomes between patellar tendon allografts and autografts for ACL repair, according to an article published in AAOS Now.
Here is a list of the orthopedic and sports medicine physicians who are team physicians for the National Football League. Information was not available for all of the teams.