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Pittsburgh-based Allegheny Health Network is collaborating with professional soccer team the Pittsburgh Riverhounds to construct a $16 million sports medicine and training facility in Coraopolis, Pa., reports KDKA Radio.

Dallas-based Steward Health Care acquired the naming rights for the Wellesley (Mass.) Sports Center, which will provide sports medicine and wellness services, reports The Boston Globe.

Analysts predict the sports medicine market will be worth $9.1 billion by 2024, according to MarketsandMarkets.

Here are three sports medicine physicians who recently joined new practices or took on new positions in the past month.

Neal ElAttrache, MD, will perform an arthroscopic debridement procedure on the left shoulder of Los Angeles Angels third baseman Zack Cozart, the team reported.

The American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine inducted orthopedic surgeon Christopher Harner, MD, into its hall of fame at the organization's annual meeting in Boston on July 14.

Brett Kindle, MD, and his medical staff successfully completed the 150th ultrasound-guided carpel tunnel release at Gulf Breeze, Fla.-based Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, according to the group's Twitter account.

Researchers from New York University Hospital for Joint Diseases in New York City demonstrated that patients receiving Ibuprofen post-surgery with a rescue prescription of Percocet used less opioids than patients prescribed only Percocet, reports EurekAlert.

Joint preservation technology company Arthrosurface launched the SpeedSpiral CMC System, a thumb implant for patients suffering from osteoarthritis in the thumb.

Juliet DeCampos, MD, a sports medicine physician at Gulf Breeze, Fla.-based Andrews Institute for Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine, described the intricacies of treating injuries in female athletes.