Sports Health, an American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine publication, says that NFL players with concussions are sidelined longer than they were in the 1990s and early 2000s, according a redOrbit report.
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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.
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.
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.
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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.
Vincent Arlet, MD, a spine surgeon and professor at the University of Virginia School of Medicine in Charlottesville, has a special interest in treating patients with scoliosis. He recently treated a patient using a new database he created, Scolisoft, to…
Some political strategists think a big Republican victory in the November elections would fulfill physicians' quest for a longer-term fix of the 23 percent reduction in Medicare pay, due to go into effect on Dec. 1, according to a report…
Mark Galland, MD, a physician at Orthopedic Specialists of North Carolina in Raleigh has been named the medical director and orthopedic consultant for Wake Technical Community College, which is also in Raleigh, according to a practice news release.