Sports Medicine

Repeated stress from 300-pound linemen likely resulted in re-injury after his summer surgery on a previously herniated disc

The Houston Texans were dealt an incredibly difficult blow to absorb when news broke that defensive end J.J. Watt will be placed on injured reserve for a herniated disc in his low back. Watt had surgery over the summer to correct the initial injury to the disc, which he suffered late last season. On September 30, he had a second surgery and will likely be ruled out for the rest of the season.

RECOVER LIKE AN OLYMPIAN

When competition day is looming or when every missed game is a hit to the team, there is enormous pressure on an injured athlete to get back to competition as quickly and safely as possible. A sports medicine team includes physicians, athletic trainers, physical therapists, and others. All these roles work together to guide the athlete through recovery back into their game – stat!

In the Tokyo Olympics 2020/2021, USA Women’s Volleyball “opposite” Jordan Thompson rolled her ankle on a bad landing from a blocking jump. An ankle “roll” is a sideways twist that stretches or tears one or

The NFL lineman risked two existing fibula injuries for the big game.

Alex Mack of the Atlanta Falcons played in 2017’s Super Bowl LI with a fibula fracture. Mack suffered the fracture during the Falcons’ NFC Championship Game win over the Green Bay Packers, but it was not discovered until after the game. The injury was slightly above a metal plate in Mack’s distal fibula, which was inserted in 2014 to fix a previous fracture.

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Treating Pro Grid Athletes Applies to Recreational CrossFit

When a colleague reached out to me to become involved with the San Francisco Fire baseball team, the new Bay Area franchise for the National Pro Grid League (NPGL), I was immediately interested.

And I also got my GSOS colleague Dr. Matthew Pecci involved. As a primary care physician and sports medicine specialist, he has the perfect skills to sort through the majority of these athletes’ issues. I handle the orthopedic issues for The Fire and Dr. Pecci handles their assortment of other common primary care issues. Together we developed