Sports Medicine
The Tommy John Epidemic: Why Baseball Elbows Keep Breaking
Elbow blowouts are at record highs in professional baseball, and the data points squarely at one culprit: throwing harder than ever.
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Sports Medicine
Injury, surgery and rehabilitation: ACLs, concussion, regenerative therapy and the science of return to play.
Sports Medicine
How Qatar's Aspetar Made the Gulf a Sports-Medicine Capital
From a single specialist hospital in Doha to the Doha agreement on hamstring injuries, the Gulf has built sports-medicine institutions the world now travels to.
Sports Medicine
PRP, Stem Cells and the Orthobiologic Hype in Sport
Injections of platelet-rich plasma and stem cells are everywhere in elite sport. The marketing has raced far ahead of the evidence.
Sports Medicine
Concussion in Sport: What the Protocols Get Right, and What CTE Research Still Cannot Prove
Sideline protocols have improved sharply. The link between repeated head impacts and long-term brain disease is real but still imperfectly understood.
Sports Medicine
The Science of ACL Reconstruction and Return to Play
Graft choice, the nine-month rule and why criteria, not the calendar, should decide when an athlete plays again.