Blog Posts in 2019
Posted on Nov 27, 2019 By Dr. Mandelbaum
Preventing Annual Holiday Football Injuries The end-of-year holidays are a great time to get outside and enjoy a game of football with the family, but they’re a horrible time to get injured. ...
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Posted on Oct 25, 2019 By Dr. Mandelbaum
Physical therapy before knee surgery helps the healing process and may produce a more favorable surgical outcome. A torn or ruptured anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is one of the most common knee ...
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Posted on Sep 19, 2019 By Cassie Losee
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 By Mario Narang
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 By Dr. Bert Mandelbaum
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 By Dr. Bert Mandelbaum
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 By Dr. Bert Mandelbaum
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 ...
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Posted on Apr 1, 2019 By Dr. Bert Mandelbaum
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 ...
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Posted on Feb 25, 2019 By Bert Mandelbaum, M.D.
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; ...
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Posted on Feb 22, 2019 By Bert Mandelbaum, M.D.
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 ...
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Posted on Jan 8, 2019 By Bert Mandelbaum, M.D.
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 ...
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