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Posted on Jul 3, 2017
As summer ramps up and temperatures do the same, athletes of all ages, sports types and levels are at a heightened risk for experiencing some degree of heat illness. In fact, heat-related illnesses ...
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Posted on Jun 12, 2017
Unlike any generation before us, our world is in an age of information at our fingertips. Yet our country inches toward an unprecedented epidemic of chronic disease, and it begs some serious ...
Continue reading "Health Care Reform Is in Your Hands - and it Means Combating Inactivity" »
Posted on May 8, 2017
Millions of Americans and their loved ones are intimately familiar with arthritis – the inflammation, swelling and stiffness that can take our once limber joints hostage at any time and cause ...
Continue reading "How to Exercise When You Have Arthritis of the Knees" »
Posted on Apr 13, 2017
The clocks are set forward, the temperature is starting to inch toward beach-worthy weather and the flowers are blooming. Spring is officially sprung, and with it comes a new and exciting season of ...
Continue reading "Springtime Safeguards Against Knee Injury" »
Posted on Mar 14, 2017
Bert Mandelbaum, MD recently authored a blog for U.S. News & World Report about how the PEP Program helps prevent and reduce ACL injury for athletes. As an avid researcher and orthopedic surgeon ...
Continue reading "Preventing and Reducing ACL Injury: a 'PEP' Talk for Every Athlete" »
Posted on Jan 11, 2017
To all the dedicated daily runners out there, AND everyone who has ever debated starting – listen up, because science has just produced some great news for you. Now, some folks might still ...
Continue reading "Running and its Impact on the Knee Joints" »
Posted on Dec 9, 2016
Around this time of year, many of us take a moment or two to reflect on what the preceding 12 months had in store. Was it a winning year for you? Was it the most trying year of your life? No matter ...
Continue reading "Winning at Life in 2017" »
Posted on Nov 17, 2016
The number of anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears athletes at all levels and in all types of sports are experiencing continues to represent a dynamic challenge for sports medicine. Not only are ACL ...
Continue reading "Habilitation Over Re-Habilitation: A PEP Talk" »
Posted on Oct 24, 2016
Have you ever gone through a phase where you’re struck with an overwhelming sense of lack of motivation and you’re just not feeling like you can tackle the world, much less day-to-day ...
Continue reading "The Greatness in Gratitude" »
Posted on Sep 7, 2016
During my time as FIFA Medical Officer in at the Rio 2016 Olympics, I bore witness to some incredible feats of athleticism. From competitors demolishing long-held world records to countless athletes ...
Continue reading "Losing like a Winner" »
Posted on Aug 24, 2016
www.medscape.com Sideline Consult Were Zika Fears Overrated? I came to Rio de Janeiro this year with the memories of many great Olympic Games I've attended. But I had a lot of other considerations ...
Continue reading "Health Risks at the Rio Olympics, by a Doctor Who Was There" »
Posted on Aug 15, 2016
With football season returning and training camps well underway, we’re seeing a number of players such as San Diego Chargers’ wide receiver Stevie Johnson, who recently underwent ...
Continue reading "Meniscus Tears & Treatment Options" »
Posted on Jul 15, 2016
When it comes to what the medical community knows about allergies today, we’ve made incredible progress in the last few decades – and society has jumped on board to help. From the news ...
Continue reading "An Antidote to THIS Life-Limiting Allergy" »
Posted on Jun 7, 2016
Have you ever set a goal for yourself? Or had a dream you wanted to realize? If you are like most of us, you might have started out full speed ahead, but then slowly lost some of that drive and had ...
Continue reading "Relentlessly Pursuing Your Dreams" »
Posted on May 16, 2016
With graduation season and Father’s Day imminent, I’m taking time this month to reflect specifically on the Millennial/Contemporary Male. It’s a subject I’ve written on ...
Continue reading "Millennials: Blazing the Trail of Change" »
Posted on Apr 19, 2016
Watching the 120 th Boston Marathon (the world’s oldest marathon) recently, my heart was filled with a mix of emotions – Nostalgia because I was there in 2001, at the time serving in the ...
Continue reading "Fitness Motivation after Traumatic Experience" »
Posted on Mar 7, 2016
Another day, another professional athlete making headlines for all of the wrong reasons. And why, because they wanted to take a shortcut to achieve victory. Former World number one women’s ...
Continue reading "When Character Breaks Down" »
Posted on Feb 29, 2016
In The Win Within: Capturing Your Victorious Spirit, I devote the entire first chapter of the book to setting the groundwork for how and why we humans are hardwired for victory. A legacy of ...
Continue reading "The Four Finite Factors of Athleticism" »
Posted on Jan 18, 2016
I read a quote recently from the great poet and essayist Ralph Waldo Emerson, who once said: “Self-trust is the essence of heroism.” To some, that statement may seem like common sense ...
Continue reading "The Power of Positive Self-Talk" »
Posted on Dec 15, 2015
As we turn the final pages on the 2015 calendar and open our hearts and minds to what lies ahead in 2016, I am always filled with a deep sense of promise during this time each year. No matter the ...
Continue reading "Resolving to Win in 2016" »
Posted on Nov 30, 2015
Professional NFL linebacker James Harrison made news recently when he posted a photo on Instagram of the participation trophies his sons were given after their youth football season ended in first and ...
Continue reading "What Does the Future Hold for The "Trophy Generation?"" »
Posted on Nov 3, 2015
I’ve discussed at length the prevalence of knee injuries in sports today – namely ACL tears during non-contact plays. But one trend that has seemingly emerged during this NFL season is ...
Continue reading "MCL: The Less-Talked About Knee Injury Source" »
Posted on Sep 26, 2015
With the NFL season now well-underway, we've already seen numerous non-contact knee injuries arise in players from numerous teams. The subject of ACL injury prevention is one I am quite passionate ...
Continue reading "ACL Injury Prevention in Football - The Time is NOW" »
Posted on Aug 27, 2015
In The Win Within – Capturing Your Victorious Spirit, I write a lot about the life of sport and the sport of life really being a one-in-the-same concept. Besides these notions being biologically ...
Continue reading "Fair Play - The Centerpiece of ANY Team, Program or Business Model" »
Posted on Jul 21, 2015
Inside Out, the most recent film in the Disney/Pixar line-up debuted this summer and as is often the case with box-office hits from this franchise – has resonated strongly with adults as well as ...
Continue reading "The Inside Out of the Win Within" »