In some situations, it may be reasonable to consider acute surgical treatment of clavicle injury for National Football League players to enable a return to the field, according to an article published in The American Journal of Sports Medicine.
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Clarence L. Shields, Jr., MD, a physician with the Kerlan-Jobe Orthopaedic Clinic in Los Angeles, has served as a sports medicine leader in many capacities throughout his career. He is a past president of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports…
HealthONE's Rocky Mountain Hospital for Children in Denver opened the Youth Sports Medicine Institute, a facility designed to care for student athletes, according to a hospital news release.
The Rothman Institute, a Philadelphia-based orthopedic practice, is opening an office in Washington Township, N.J., according to a Citybizlist report.
Mick Perez-Cruet, MD, MS, director of minimally invasive spine surgery at Michigan Head & Spine Institute at the Providence Medical Center in Southfield, Mich., is a pioneer in minimally invasive spine surgery and recently treated a patient in June, helping…
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John P. Nelligan, MD, joined InMotion Orthopedics at PeaceHealth St. John Medical Center in Longview, Wash., according to a report in the Valley Bugler Community Newspaper.
Sports medicine physicians should advise pitchers to have more forward scapular posture of the dominant arm than the non-dominant arm in order to decrease shoulder tightness associated with pitching, according to a study published in The American Journal of Sports…
T. Whitney Gibson, MD, a Greenville, S.C.-based pediatric sports medicine physician, performed minimally invasive arthroscopic hip surgery on the youngest patient recorded at four months old, according to a Fox Carolina report.
Richard Hawkins, MD, co-founded the Steadman Clinic in Vail, Colo., and founder of the Steadman-Hawkins Clinic of the Carolinas, has positioned himself as a leader in orthopedic surgery and sports medicine. He has treated professional athletes from around the world,…