Public health officials in Massachusetts are hoping to have new rules, training and reporting requirements for young athletes who suffer traumatic head injuries in place for the start of the 2011-2012 school year, according to a Boston Herald report.
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Eric Berkson, MD, is the director of the Massachusetts General Hospital Sports Performance Center and an instructor in orthopedic surgery at Harvard Medical School in Boston. He has a professional interest in treating injuries to the shoulder, elbow and knee.…
Here are eight spine and neurosurgeon leaders of spine practices.
Michael Busman, MD, a sports medicine physician, has joined the Phoebe Physician Group in Albany, Ga., according to an Americus Times-Recorder news story.
Injection accuracy rates are higher when surgeons use the posterior approach compared with the anterior approach for the glenohumeral joint, according to an article published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine.
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At the National Operating Committee on Standards for Athletic Equipment Winter Board Meeting last weekend, organization leaders considered and approved millions of dollars in research grants to advance the science of sports medicine and review the work done by the…
Washington Wizards player Josh Howard will receive treatment for an injured knee at the Hospital for Special Surgery, according to a hospital release.
Mark N. Perlmutter, MD, an orthopedic hand surgeon, will lead the new West Shore Hand and Orthopedics practice in Silver Spring Township, Penn., according to a PennLive report.
2011 should be an interesting year for surgery center legal issues. The key issues that we see include increased enforcement under the anti-kickback and related statutes, increased impatience from physicians as to other physicians' activities at surgery centers, increased efforts…
Mark F. Abel, MD, is the chair of the department of orthopedic surgery and division head of the division of pediatric orthopedics at University of Virginia Health Systems in Charlottesville. Dr. Abel's additional titles include the medical director of the…