Shoulder Surgery and Baseball Dr. Joshua Harris and colleagues (2013) examine professional baseball pitchers following shoulder surgery for a shoulder injury. Shoulder surgery among baseball players included arthroscopic surgery, rotator cuff, open, labrum, fracture, and more. The average career length of the baseball pitchers studied was just over six years. Following the players a year after… Read more »
Monthly Archives: April 2013
Recess May Influence Kids’ Mental, Emotional, Physical and Social Well Being – Learn More from Louisville Sports Medicine Doctor
Recess an important part of the school day, according to latest from Ohio State researchers. Ramstetter, Murray and Garner published in the Journal of School Health suggests that recess time has a role to play in kids mental, emotional, physical and social functioning. Important parts of effective recess time for kids includes playground equipment that is… Read more »
Sleep and Diet – Latest Research Explores the Connection – Learn more from Louisville Orthopaedic Specialists
What you Eat May Influence How You Sleep, according to latest research. Dr. Michael Grandner and colleagues at the Center for Sleep and Circadian Neurobiology at the University of Pennsylvania found that people who sleep less than five hours also consumed less water and less lycopene. Lycopene is a vitamin that is known to help… Read more »
Fatalities and Football – Researchers Identify Reasons including Football Injuries
Fatalities Linked to Football – According to research led by Boden and colleagues (2013) and published in the American Journal of Sports Medicine, football related injuries are rare but they do occur with around 12 per year or 1 in 100,000 participating players. Studying data from 1990 to 2010, these researchers reviewed the cases of… Read more »
Plica Syndrome or Synovial Plica Syndrome – More on this Knee Injury from Orthopedic Surgeon Louisville KY
What is Plica Syndrome? Plica Syndrome, sometimes called Synovial Plica Syndrome, is a knee condition linked to synovial tissue in the knee. Synovial tissue or membrane is a thin and soft tissue that provides lining to joints and joint cavities. Some individuals are more likely to experience irritation of the synovial plica than others –… Read more »
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