Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP) is a budding medical treatment that utilizes the patient’s blood to promote natural healing for quicker recoveries with extremely low risks. Trusted by the NBA’s biggest stars, it provides a solution to one of the most common and dreaded injuries that afflict these nimble giants – knee injuries. For athletes …
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Training is important; so is recognizing sports injuries Athletes are tough cookies. Even supposedly gentle and graceful sports such as swimming or ballet require a commitment and endurance that test a person’s mettle. So it’s natural that these same people will sometimes try to shrug off a sports injury — until it sidelines them. Then they appear …
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Participation in sporting events is the second leading cause of spinal cord injuries for Americans ages 30 and younger. Of these injuries, more than half of catastrophic sports injuries are cervical spine injuries (emedicine). Other common sports injuries that involve spine health are a result of repetitively overusing the structures that support the spine. …
At our Orthopedic and Sports Medicine clinic, we’ve noticed that professional athletes are often in the vanguard of medical treatment. Because they cannot afford to miss much time away from their sport, these athletes are open to unusual and new therapies. PRP (Platelet Rich Plasma) is one such technique and true to form, Kobe Bryant …
Knee replacement surgery is one of the great success stories in medical history. Now it has an even rosier future. Knee surgery has been a huge success story, with the number of procedures in this country somewhere over 600,000 a year and growing. Up to 95% of patients report a good outcome ten years after …
Custom-fit Knee Replacement: No More One-Size-Fits-All Read More »
Studies show that young brains are more vulnerable to trauma than older brains. But there is a price to pay for inactivity as well. This fall, millions of little torsos will be fitted with jerseys embazoned with Cowboys, Packers and Broncos logos. Slender shoulders will be bulked out with ill-fitting pads. And miniature heads will …
If So, You Are in Good Company At the risk of sounding like orthopedic cheerleaders, we have to declare: There’s never been a better time to have that hip replaced. With more than 50 years of history, this surgical procedure has become almost routine, with nearly 300,000 operations performed each year. Two and a half …
Parents and Coaches Are Warned: Take Concussions Seriously The Centers for Disease Control (CDC) is worried about concussions in our kids. A concussion is a brain injury, they emphasize. It’s not getting his bell rung. It’s not a little bump on her head. Any brain injury is cause for concern, is the message. The new policy …
