A recent study in the Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases, found that an avocado-soy pill decreased the percentage of people whose osteoarthritis progressed after three years by 10%. While this may seem somewhat promising, Dr. Richard Olson, a rheumatologist...read more
Once a month, on Wednesdays, @SportsSafety hosts a #SportsSafety Twitter chat, and it’s always a fruitful discussion (Hint: this is your invitation to participate on February 12th). January’s topic covered off-season training for young athletes, and it did not...read more
Last Tuesday night (12/3/2013), some of our Sports Med staff participated in a Twitter chat about athletic injury reporting. If you haven’t ever seen a Twitter chat before, it’s quite the rodeo. People’s fingers fly as they frantically type...read more
How to (almost) dodge trees at night: The evening of February third, Larry Zimmer sped through the Northwoods of Wisconsin on his snowmobile. As he rode through the snow, Larry saw a tree loom directly in his path. Without...read more
Find out why this research won't really affect physicians' decisions to use NSAIDS during and after surgery to help patients deal with the pain of surgery....read more
The goal was simple: to complete the 2010 Austin, Texas Longhorn 70.3 Ironman in six to seven hours. The time wouldn’t set any records, but just the idea of entering an Ironman competition may have seemed ludicrous to Jackie Mohr fourteen...read more
