Steven Stovitz, MD, MS presented “Injury Rates in Team Sport Events: Tackling Challenges in Assessing Exposure Time” at the 21st American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA on April 23, 2012.
For stock car drivers, time spent on resistance training—mainly building upper body strength—is directly related to success on the race track, reports a study in the May issue of The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, official research journal of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.
Sports Cardiologist Expert Dr. Euan Ashley sharing “Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy vs. Athlete’s Heart: Understanding the Physiologic Limits of Exercise” at the 21st American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA on Sunday, April 22, 2012.
South African sports medicine expert Martin Schwellnus, MD, PhD will be presenting “Born to Break Down? Genetics in Soft Tissue Injuries” at the 21st American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA on April 22, 2012.
Tracy R. Ray, MD, delivered the Hough Memorial Lecture entitled “Pitch Counts: Can we prevent youth throwing injuries” at the 21st American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting in Atlanta, Ga. on Saturday, April 21, 2012.
Norway's Roald Bahr, MD, PhD, will be presenting “Models of Injury Prevention” at the 21st American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting in Atlanta, GA on Saturday, April 21, 2012.
Parenting a teenage athlete is a juggling act—monitoring homework, keeping up with practice and training schedules, weeks packed with competitions or games. It may seem like a never-ending “to do” list and that yearly sports physical can seems like just one more thing in a busy parent’s life. But the quickest way of checking if off the list could be detrimental to a teen’s health.
Even two years later, Sarah Clark grimaces sheepishly and insists she mishandled the concussion her oldest son sustained in ninth-grade football.
With temperatures warming and recreational athletes coming out of hibernation, sports medicine physicians are treating more sprains, strains, fractures, tendonitis and other injuries.
Hard facts about hard hits: What athletes and parents need to know about concussions.
Baseball shoulder, gymnast wrist, runner’s knee. These are just a few of the labels sports medicine specialists use to describe the increasing number of repetitive-use injuries they see in young children.
Thousands of people will kick off Chicago’s running season this Sunday when they step out for the city’s most popular 8K race. Having the proper footwear will be important to protect their feet and prevent injuries, according to podiatrists at Loyola University Health System (LUHS).
Tony Wanich, MD, shares advice at start of youth baseball season.
For children aged 14 and under, delaying reconstructive surgery for anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries may raise their risk of further injury. If surgery occurs later than 12 weeks after the injury, the injury may even be irreparable.
Adolescents are more sensitive to the effects of a sport-related concussion than adults or children.
On Feb. 13-14, the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine (AMSSM) partnered with the European Society of Cardiology (ESC) Sports Cardiology Section, the Pediatric & Congenital Electrophysiology Society (PACES), other leading U.S. cardiologists, the British Journal of Sports Medicine (BJSM), and the FIFA Medical Assessment and Research Center (F-MARC) in an effort to define ECG interpretation standards in athletes and develop a comprehensive online training module for physicians around the world to gain expertise in ECG interpretation and the proper evaluation of ECG abnormalities suggestive of a pathologic cardiovascular disorder.
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The use of epidural steroid injections may be a more efficient treatment option for lumbar disc herniations, according to research presented today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Specialty Day in San Francisco.
Primary Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) reconstruction improves quality of life and sports functionality for athletes, according to research presented today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Specialty Day in San Francisco, CA.
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Despite the known success rates of reconstructive Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) surgery, the number of high school and collegiate football players returning to play may not be as high as anticipated, say researchers presenting at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Specialty Day in San Francisco, CA.
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Elbow position alone appeared to not affect injury rates and performance in college-level, male pitchers say researchers presenting at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Specialty Day in San Francisco, CA.
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Kids treated more than 150 days after an Anterior Cruciate Ligament (ACL) injury have higher rates of other knee injuries, including medial meniscal tears, say researchers presenting at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's (AOSSM) Specialty Day in San Francisco, CA.
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Concussions and the issues that can occur following one, continue to be a serious problem for football players. However, one simple game strategy: proper helmet fit, may be one of the easiest game winners for prevention, say researchers presenting their study at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Specialty Day in San Francisco.
/PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- As elbow injuries continue to rise, especially in pitchers, procedures to help treat and get players back in the game quickly have been difficult to come by. However, a newer treatment called platelet rich plasma (PRP) may pose hope, according to researchers presenting their findings at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's Specialty Day meeting in San Francisco.
Now that the Super Bowl is over, millions of fans will go through withdrawal symptoms from not being able to watch football. Loyola psychiatrist Dr. Angelos Halaris describes the effects this has on the brain, and offers tips on how to cope.
About 18 million individuals undergo massage therapy annually in the U.S. Despite several reports that long-term massage therapy reduces chronic pain and improves range of motion in clinical trials, the biological effects of massage on skeletal tissue have remained unclear - until now.
A new approach to motion capture technology is offering fresh insights into tennis injuries – and orthopedic injuries in general.
Even black-diamond skiers and snowboarders enjoying a weekend on the slopes can have their season spoiled by an injury that happens on the last run of the day. But the end-of-the-day tweaks and spills are more common than you’d think, says physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist Ed Laskowski, M.D., of Mayo Clinic.
Experts at The Long Island Concussion Center at Neurological Surgery, P.C. want parents, school sports officials, educators and young athletes to become aware of the warning signs of concussion, and of what they should do if concussion symptoms are present. Neuropsychologist Dr. Gad Klein and colleagues are available for interviews on this topic.
Could heading the ball in soccer lead to degenerative brain disease, like that seen in athletes in other sports? That's the question addressed by a review in the January issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.
Sports medicine professionals, athletic trainers and physical therapists will learn about the latest research in the treatment and prevention of soccer-related injuries at the MLS Medical Symposium presented by Hospital for Special Surgery.
Practical goals and preparation are the keys to success, a Saint Louis University physical therapist says.
Runners over the age of 60 are the fastest-growing group in the sport. A new study suggests that their running can remain fast as they age, too. The study found that the running economy – how efficiently the body uses oxygen at a certain pace – of older runners was no different than that of younger runners.
Using advanced imaging techniques and cognitive tests, researchers at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University and Montefiore Medical Center, the University Hospital for Einstein, have shown that repeatedly heading a soccer ball increases the risk for brain injury.
While pedaling power is important in bicycle motocross (BMX) racing—especially at the start of the race—other skills have a greater impact on performance on the difficult tracks encountered in higher-level competitions, according to a study in the November issue of The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, official research journal of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.
Biofeedback optimal performance training can benefit not only the sports performance, but also the overall life functioning of an athlete. Individual athletes, teams, and coaches can gain from a multidisciplinary approach of cognitive and behavioral psychology, biofeedback, and neurofeedback. The U.S. Air Force Academy Peak Performance Center offers student-athletes this additional focus on their sports performance and quality of life.
Loyola University Health System sports medicine physician shares common pick-up football game injuries.
Sports medicine and management experts say solutions needed to keep non-health factors from hindering appropriate treatment
Integrating a coach-led neuromuscular warm-up prior to sports practice appeared to reduce the risk of lower extremity injuries in female high school soccer and basketball athletes, according to a report in the November issue of Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, one of the JAMA/Archives journals.
According to research presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting in Chicago, participating in certain sports such as soccer, as well as elite long distance running, weight lighting and wrestling may increase the risk of developing knee osteoarthritis.
Researchers were surprised to find that in some cases, the protection afforded by “leatherhead" early 20th-century football helmets was often comparable to or better than that provided by 21st-century varsity helmets currently in use.
Once runners have completed the race and achieved their goals, there are measures they can take to facilitate recovery, decrease post-race discomfort and return to running without injury.
Knee injuries in children with tears of the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) and meniscus have increased dramatically over the past 12 years, say orthopaedic surgeons from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia.
With marathon trainees about to take to the streets of Chicago this Sunday, Loyola University Health System registered dietitian Brooke Schantz offers the top 10 nutrition tips runners can follow to help them cross the finish line.
Two specialized training techniques—resisted and assisted sprint training—both lead to faster sprint speeds in high-level female soccer players, reports a study in the October issue of The Journal of Strength and Conditioning Research, official research journal of the National Strength and Conditioning Association (NSCA). The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.
Venus Williams has been one of the best tennis players in the world for more than a decade. However at the 2011 US Open, she couldn’t beat an opponent known as Sjogren syndrome. Laura, Green, MD, from the Krieger Eye Institute at Sinai Hospital of Baltimore, has a quick lesson on this condition.
New research puts the “Talk Test” to the test, confirming that this low-tech, easy-to-administer test is an effective tool for gauging exercise intensity, but that it does not correspond as neatly as previously assumed to other more objective tests.
The last few years have seen increasing concern over the effects of concussions and head trauma in sports—including the risk of chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE) occurring in athletes. The editors of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons, have created a new online collection of important recent research papers on concussions and head injury in sports. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health.
Nearly half of recreational runners may be drinking too much fluid during races, according to a survey of runners by Loyola University Health System researchers.
Top sports psychologists publish the first handbook offering techniques to reach peak performance utilizing biofeedback and neurofeedback.
The American Academy of Neurology, the leading group of neurologists dedicated to managing sports concussion, is issuing a call to all youth and high school coaches, athletes and parents to learn the signs of sports concussion and to know when a player must leave the game. The call to action is part of the Academy’s latest educational campaign, which includes new tools to reduce the estimated four million sports concussions experienced each year in the United States. Learn more at www.aan.com/concussion.
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