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Posted on Sep 19, 2019
MEDICALLY SPEAKING, "referred pain" means that the pain you're experiencing on one part of your body isn't the actual source of the problem. An extreme but straightforward example of ...
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Posted on Aug 15, 2019
What the Women’s World Cup Can Teach Us About Healthy Inspiration The U.S. Women's National Soccer Team wrote yet another inspiring chapter in its rich and illustrious history with their ...
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Posted on Jul 23, 2019
Take precautions when enjoying outdoor activities during these longer, warmer days of the year. The weather has warmed, and school is out – providing ample opportunities for Americans young and ...
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Posted on Jun 27, 2019
Anatomical and hormonal differences may be to blame, but there are ways to help reduce the risk. More recent research has indicated what we orthopedic surgeons have often seen in our practice: women ...
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Posted on Jun 17, 2019
KNEE PAIN IS ONE OF those common complaints, like back pain, that affects just about everyone at some point in their lives. While it's true that some form of pain in the knee will befall most of ...
Continue reading "Dr. Mandelbaum for U.S. News & World Report: Navigating Knee Pain: the Inside, Outside, Front and Back" »
Posted on Apr 1, 2019
IT'S A BEAUTIFUL THING when we can bring together the world's most foremost sports medicine specialists and researchers to talk about and review the research on a particular topic. Such was ...
Continue reading "Dr. Bert Mandelbaum for U.S. News & World Report: Head Injuries in Soccer" »
Posted on Feb 25, 2019
ABOUT 50 YEARS AGO, THE average life expectancy for men in the United States was around 67 years, and for women, it was approximately 74. Today, American men live to about 77 years old on average; ...
Continue reading "Dr. Bert Mandelbaum for U.S. News & World Report: The Key to a Longer Life: Exercise More" »
Posted on Feb 22, 2019
NEARLY EVERY internet-using adult has done it at least once. You come down with a symptom or two you may have never experienced before, and you head straight to a search engine for information on what ...
Continue reading "Dr. Bert Mandelbaum for U.S. News & World Report: The Trouble With Paging 'Dr. Google'" »
Posted on Jan 8, 2019
FOR YEARS NOW, ADULTS have been told by medical and fitness experts that strength training is a crucial part of a stable exercise regimen for overall health. We know that cardiovascular fitness is ...
Continue reading "U.S. News & World Report: Youth Strength Training: A Parent's Guide" »
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 ...
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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 ...
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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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