Blog Posts in 2018
Posted on Dec 7, 2018 By Bert Mandelbaum, M.D.
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 By Bert Mandelbaum, M.D.
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 By Bert Mandelbaum, M.D.
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 By Bert R. Mandelbaum, MD, DHL (Hon)
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 By Bert Mandelbaum, M.D.
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 By Bert R. Mandelbaum, MD, DHL (Hon)
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 By Bert R. Mandelbaum, MD, DHL (Hon)
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 By Joshua Verna
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 By Bert Mandelbaum, M.D.
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 By Bert Mandelbaum, M.D.
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 By Bert Mandelbaum, M.D.
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" »