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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" »
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" »