Blog Posts in 2017
Posted on Dec 21, 2017 By Bert Mandelbaum, M.D.
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 By Dr. Mandelbaum
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 By Dr. Mandelbaum
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 By Dr. Mandelbaum
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 By Dr. Mandelbaum
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 By Bridget Gehrke
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 By Bert Mandelbaum, M.D.
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 By Dr. Mandelbaum
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 By Bridget Gehrke
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 By Bert Mandelbaum, M.D.
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" »