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The Mississippi Athletics Trainers Association named James O'Mara, MD, its 2016 Mississippi Sports Medicine Person of the Year, according to The Clarion-Ledger.

Here are eight sports medicine physicians who have recently joined hospitals or practice or gained promotions.

A recent study in the Chief Journal of Sports Medicine says young hockey players feel pressure from their teammates, coaches and parents to deny concussion symptoms when they occur, Reuters reports. 

Here are 12 orthopedic surgeons in the news this past week.

For 30 years, Francis D'Ambrosio, MD, provided care as an orthopedic surgeon. Today, however, he provides consultations and prescriptions for medical cannabis, according to an LA Weekly report.

Employees of the Andrews Institute for Sports Medicine and Orthopaedics evaluated 50 athletes with Special Olympics Florida on Aug. 4.

The 2016 Summer Olympics open tonight and while several countries prepare to compete, scandal has rocked the Russian track and field team after they were barred from competition after evidence of widespread doping was found.

Director of Sports Medicine at the Chicago Center for Orthopedics Preston Wolin, MD, is pushing for the Illinois High School Association to implement a pitch-count policy to protect young children's arms.

Minority populations undergo total knee replacement procedures at lower rates but have higher rates of adverse health outcomes, according to a study in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery.

Christopher Ahmad, MD, will perform Tommy John surgery on Yankees left-hander Jacob Lindgren, according to a New York Times report.