Sport Medicine

Basketball players are as eager to be back on the floor as participants in most sports.

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 …

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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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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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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 …

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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 …

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  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 …

What We See at the Sports Clinic: Most Common Sports Injuries Read More »

  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. …

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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 …

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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 …

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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 …

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