Unfortunately, the entire nation has now seen and reacted to the injury to Matt Schaub’s leg last Sunday and the aftermath which followed. As a sports medicine physician and quite frankly as a human being, I’ll go on record saying that in no instance is it warranted or acceptable to cheer/boo an injured athlete. From Continue Reading
Category Archives: Notable Sports Injuries
Unfortunately, the entire nation has now seen and reacted to the injury to Matt Schaub’s leg last Sunday and the aftermath which followed. As a sports medicine physician and quite frankly as a human being, I’ll go on record saying that in no instance is it warranted or acceptable to cheer/boo an injured athlete. From Continue Reading
We all know Kobe as the ultimate competitor. The orthopedic surgeon who repaired his achilles tendon rupture yesterday expects him to be back some time next season. I would guess we might expect to see him some time in early 2014, perhaps after the All-Star break. Will he return to the high-flying Kobe form of Continue Reading
Ware’s talks to ESPN after injury… By now we have all seen or at least heard about the dramatic and unexpected injury suffered on Sunday by Louisville guard Kevin Ware. This type of injury, an open tibia shaft fracture (fracture of the main bone of the lower leg in which the end of the bone Continue Reading
There is apparently a discrepancy regarding the sideline management of RG III’s LCL injury which happened a few weeks ago. This article describes a situation which comes up often in the world of sports medicine, where sideline physicians have to balance the long-term interest of the athletes they are covering with the short-term interest of Continue Reading
It appears that even his surgeon was in awe…. After 5 years of NFL football, 3 years at O.U., and several more going back to his youth, the mileage in Adrian Petersen’s knee should have been evident. Even after a few years of sport and for many of us at his age even without football, Continue Reading