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Posted on Dec 7, 2018
IN LATE SEPTEMBER 2018, storied professional golfer Tiger Woods won The Tour Championship by a two-shot victory – his first win in five whole years. During that "dry spell" – and ...
Continue reading "Inspiration from Athletes Who've Come Back from the Brink" »
Posted on Oct 18, 2018
JUST A DECADE AGO, IT seemed that the "biggest deal" in youth sports drug-abuse news was high school athletes' use of performance-enhancing drugs, or PEDs for short. Article after ...
Continue reading "U.S. News & World Report: From Injury to Opioid: the Unintended Side Effect of Youth Sports Participation" »
Posted on Oct 1, 2018
FOR MOST PARENTS, THE ultimate goal is to raise healthy, smart, successful and happy children. Anyone who has kids can attest to the fact that it's a wild ride, with some twists and turns that ...
Continue reading "U.S. News & World Report: Encouraging Physical Activity in Children" »
Posted on Sep 14, 2018
IT'S A WELL-KNOWN FACT that exercise is one of the healthiest and most beneficial things we can do for our bodies over the course of our entire lifetime. When most people think of the benefits of ...
Continue reading "U.S. News & World Report: Why Maintaining Bone Health Starts in Youth" »
Posted on Aug 17, 2018
WITH THE NFL TRAINING camp season underway, sports fans are bound to hear about their favorite teams and players succumbing to knee injuries at practice. From torn ACLs and MCLs to meniscus tears, the ...
Continue reading "U.S. News & World Report: Meniscus Tears and Fears: What to Know" »
Posted on Aug 6, 2018
When I was the sports medicine doctor at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), I had a resident who came to us from Johns Hopkins Medical School. He was a bright and dynamic young man who ...
Continue reading "Dr. Mandelbaum Explains to Medscape How Sports Physicians Can Take Action Against Suicide" »
Posted on Aug 6, 2018
When Striving for Greatness Ends in Injury I often see parents pushing their kids, and kids pushing themselves, to be the next sports star. They understand that it takes a lot of hard work to be ...
Continue reading "Medscape Asks Dr. Mandelbaum How Specializing in One Sport Can Break Young Bodies" »
Posted on Jun 7, 2018
AS AN ORTHOPEDIC surgeon specializing in sports medicine, the timing of when a player can "return to sport" is one of the most frequently asked questions of me – from the patients ...
Continue reading "When Can I Return to Play After an Orthopedic Sports Injury?" »
Posted on Mar 12, 2018
At one point in history, anterior cruciate ligament injuries were career-ending for professional football players. Even today, they can sideline a player for an entire season. On the surface, this ...
Continue reading "Why the PEP Program May Help Prevent ACL Injuries in the NFL" »
Posted on Mar 5, 2018
The Larry Nassar sexual assault case was a life-altering journey of heartbreak for his victims and a scandalous and hugely disappointing blow to the field of sports medicine. And it has illuminated ...
Continue reading "Ethics in Sports (and All) Medicine" »
Posted on Jan 12, 2018
The New Year has always been a perfect transition to making those changes you've been talking about (and possibly putting off) all year long. There's just something about the changing of the ...
Continue reading "This Year, Vow to Exercise More Safely" »
Posted on Dec 21, 2017
The concept of physical fitness for improved health and wellness is one that permeates much of western history. Forty years ago, however, public health recommendations emphasized vigorous physical ...
Continue reading "Prepare for Aging: Focus on Fitness" »
Posted on Nov 30, 2017
Over the past 40 years, youth sports culture has changed dramatically. Neighborhood kids meeting up in the evenings for a relaxed pick-up game of basketball or baseball has slowly been replaced with ...
Continue reading "Is Sports Specialization in Children a Good Thing?" »
Posted on Oct 20, 2017
Over the course of a decades-long career in orthopedic sports medicine, I've had numerous opportunities to see some of our world's most heralded athletes at their absolute best – and ...
Continue reading "Inspiration After Injury: an Analysis of the Athletic 'It' Factor" »
Posted on Jul 31, 2017
As a sports doctor and orthopedic surgeon who has studied the human body on an evolutionary level and cared for it on a mechanical one, I've long held the opinion that we were all born to be ...
Continue reading "You Were Born to Be an Athlete" »
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 ...
Continue reading "Preventing Heat-Related Illness in Athletes" »
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" »