A pulled groin muscle can happen suddenly and can’t be ignored. Doctors call them sports hernias. The media calls them groin pulls. Whatever name it goes by, it’s a familiar item on the injured list in sports that involve abrupt twisting movements or changes of direction, like soccer, football and ice hockey. In fact, a …
In our orthopedic clinic, we see a great many patients with acute or chronic back or neck pain. The acute group includes people who’ve recently suffered a work-related injury. The chronic group are those people whose pain lingers, sometimes for years. For those who are injured at work, there is the extra stress of being …
Shortly after the introduction of the Motel T, the term ‘whiplash’ came into being— and it never went away. While orthopedic specialists have yet to find a physiological source for this condition, the ‘industry’, if you will, now costs us about $20 billion every year. Surely all these cases can’t be caused by car crashes! …
There’s nothing more frustrating for an athlete than a stress fracture in the foot or ankle. He or she needs to train, to work harder, to raise his level of play . . . but the harder he works, the more likely he is to need time off. Stress fractures are different from acute injuries. …
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Sports footwear is big business. Nothing drove that point home as forcefully as a story we heard from a patient. Choose Comfortable Shoes! The patient (we’ll call him Daniel) had just returned from a Caribbean cruise. One of the workshops on the cruise ship focused on healthy feet. A fitness trainer spewed a mixture of …
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Super Bowl may be decided by a hidden factor: sore feet Last fall, Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning was diagnosed with plantar fasciitis. While the veteran has played through multiple injuries— name an NFL quarterback who hasn’t— he is 39 years old and is the first to admit he doesn’t bounce back like he used to. …
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Dislocated shoulder joints can be extremely painful. Have you ever watched a baseball pitcher throw a ball and wondered how his arm stayed in the socket? He makes a wild motion, bringing the ball back behind his head and then flinging the entire arm forward with a velocity that would seem capable of cracking a …
With all of the emphasis on fitness, few Americans realize that sports injuries have risen dramatically in school-age children. While bumps, bruises and even broken bones have been with us forever, today athletes between the ages of 12 and 15 suffer 47% of all concussions. Most of these are preventable and predictable, according to an …
Soccer is the fastest growing team sport in the United States, and soccer-related injuries are on the upswing. While soccer players suffer fewer traumatic injuries than athletes in other sports, each year about 100,000 children are hurt. Any game that involves running, kicking, twisting and includes other players— as opposed to a solo activity such …
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What can you do when your son (or daughter) announces he’s made the football team and all you’ve been hearing is risk, risk, risky business? First, know and understand the risks. The evidence is growing and growing more serious about the longterm effects of football and head injuries. Players who’ve taken a hit to the …
