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While the former National Football League Player's Association website states that players are not allowed to speak with team physicians in the event of a lock-out, an NFL spokesman recently confirmed that players are able to meet with team physicians…

Major League Baseball and the Major League Baseball Players Association are adopting new concussion protocols, including a requirement for each club to have a mild traumatic brain injury specialist located in its home city, according to an MLB report.

Urfan Dar, MD, manager and medical director of Theda Oaks Surgery Center in San Antonio, offers seven tips for pain centers.

The National Sports Concussion Cooperative was recently founded to support concussion-related research and testing, according to a Rawlings Sports Goods news release.

Researchers suggest catastrophizing, the act of thinking of events as a catastrophe, is a strong predictor of whether an individual's acute pain after surgery or an injury will evolve into chronic pain, according to a news report by MedPage Today.

Twenty-three orthopedic surgeons from Bronson Methodist Hospital, HealthCare Midwest and K Valley Orthopaedics/Southwestern Michigan Sportsmedicine Clinic, all in Kalamazoo, Mich., have joined to form Bronson Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, according to a Kalamazoo Gazette report.

Hip impingements and subluxations are frequent among ballet movements, which can cause cartilage hypercompression, according to a study published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine.

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons is encouraging surgeons and researchers to further investigate treatment methods for osteochondritis dissecans after the organization released a treatment guideline this past year, according to an AAOS news release.

Study results suggest intravenous regional blocks with ketorolac and lidocaine, though useful in treatment of complex regional pain syndrome, produce only short-term pain relief in patients with CRPS of the lower extremity, according to a study published in the Clinical…

Patients treated for lumbar spinal stenosis with the mild decompression procedure reported sustained improvements in pain and mobility after one year and experienced no serious adverse events, according to a news release bout the American Academy of Pain Medicine.