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  • Why treating shoulder pain in baseball pitchers and other throwing athletes is so difficult

    Why treating shoulder pain in baseball pitchers and other throwing athletes is so difficult
    Source:
    Science Daily

    Despite increasing medical knowledge, treating shoulder pain in baseball pitchers and other throwing athletes remains one of the most challenging tasks in sports medicine.

    “The results of treatment are not as predictable as the patient, family, trainer, coach and doctor would like to think,” according to an article in the journal Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Clinics of North America.

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  • Imaging identifies cartilage regeneration in long-distance runners

    Imaging identifies cartilage regeneration in long-distance runners
    Source:
    Medical News Today

    Using a mobile MRI truck, researchers followed runners for 4,500 kilometers through Europe to study the physical limits and adaptation of athletes over a 64-day period, according to a study presented today at the annual meeting of the Radiological Society of North America (RSNA).

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  • Patient-reported results, knee stability improved after all-inside double-bundle ACL reconstruction

    Patient-reported results, knee stability improved after all-inside double-bundle ACL reconstruction
    Source:
    Healio

    Investigators found significant improvements from preoperative measures at 24.8-month follow-up for both mean side-to-side differences and Lysholm scores in patients who underwent double-bundle ACL reconstruction using a special drill pin guide and reamer, along with a laser-guided device to facilitate a transtibial approach.

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  • Pro athletes may safely return to competition after lumbar microdiscectomy

    Pro athletes may safely return to competition after lumbar microdiscectomy
    Source: Healio

    CHICAGO — The pooled rate of return to play following lumbar microdiscectomy for herniated disc nucleus was 83.5%, according to results presented at the North American Spine Society Annual Meeting, and the overall return to play rate for elite athletes with a herniated disc after this procedure was 84.5%.

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  • Recommendations for patient activity after knee replacement vary among surgeons

    Recommendations for patient activity after knee replacement vary among surgeons
    Source: Healio

    During recovery after knee replacement surgery, exercise is critical. After initial recovery, patients will want to resume more strenuous activities. In addition to exercise prescribed by a physical therapist, several studies have shown patients who participated in athletic activities prior to surgery will want to continue this practice after surgery. However, how much activity and how strenuous this activity should be remains unclear.

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  • Stresses on elbow during pitching may alter multiple structures

    Stresses on elbow during pitching may alter multiple structures
    Source: Healio

    In a pre- and post-season ultrasound evaluation of high school pitchers’ elbows, adaptive changes occurred to multiple structures about the elbow from stresses placed on the elbow during one season of pitching, based on results of a recently published study.

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  • Bats and balls, not base runners, cause worst injuries to major league catchers

    Bats and balls, not base runners, cause worst injuries to major league catchers
    Source: Medical Xpress

    Contrary to popular belief, the worst injuries baseball catchers face on the field come from errant bats and foul balls, not home-plate collisions with base runners, according to findings of a study led by researchers at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine.

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  • A 48-year-old woman with right knee pain

    A 48-year-old woman with right knee pain
    Source: Healio

    A 48-year-old woman with a history of hypertension, rheumatoid arthritis treated with chronic prednisone, and a two-pack-per-week cigarette use, presented to clinic with 8 years of right knee pain. She had an intra-articular steroid injection with some relief 6 years ago. She denied any hip pain and uses a cane for ambulation.

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  • Stiff shoulders less likely to re-tear after rotator cuff repair vs non-stiff shoulders

    Stiff shoulders less likely to re-tear after rotator cuff repair vs non-stiff shoulders
    Source: Healio

    Patients who had preoperative shoulder stiffness and those who developed stiffness at 6 weeks and 12 weeks postoperatively after rotator cuff repair were less likely to experience a re-tear compared with patients who had no stiffness, according to results presented here.

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  • What constitutes good treatment of tennis elbow?

    What constitutes good treatment of tennis elbow?
    Source: Medical Xpress

    What is the best treatment for acute tennis elbow? Physiotherapy? Cortisone? A combination? Or might you just as well forego treatment?

    The two most common treatments for tennis elbow are physiotherapy and cortisone injections. It is unclear which of these gives the best result, and diagnosis can be problematic for general practitioners.

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