Blog Posts in 2016

Winning at Life in 2017

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 ...
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Habilitation Over Re-Habilitation: A PEP Talk

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 ...
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The Greatness in Gratitude

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 ...
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Losing like a Winner

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 ...
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Health Risks at the Rio Olympics, by a Doctor Who Was There

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 ...
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Meniscus Tears & Treatment Options

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 ...
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An Antidote to THIS Life-Limiting Allergy

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 ...
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Relentlessly Pursuing Your Dreams

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 ...
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Millennials: Blazing the Trail of Change

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 ...
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Fitness Motivation after Traumatic Experience

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 ...
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When Character Breaks Down

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 ...
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The Four Finite Factors of Athleticism

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 ...
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The Power of Positive Self-Talk

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 ...
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