Athletes

You and your practice receive numerous financial requests to support organizations in the form of sponsorships every single year. These sponsorships can range from hospital-related galas to large sporting events and charitable fundraisers. Sponsorships come in all shapes and sizes and involve a broad range of participants and benefactors. With so many options and so many different audiences, how do you know which sponsorships offer you and your practice real value and which ones are simply spending money?

BOSTON — Most non-traumatic fatalities that occur in high school and collegiate football players are due to overexertion exercises from coaches, according to findings presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting.

BOSTON — Concussion risk in high school football is greater for younger players and on practices on turf-based surfaces, according to a study presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting.

BOSTON — Patients who underwent arthroscopic shoulder stabilization with knotless anchors had outcomes similar to patients who had traditional knotted anchors, according to a presentation at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting. In addition, investigators found all-suture-based anchors may be correlated with lower redislocation rates.

by Alecko Eskandarian

A single injection of either leukocyte-rich platelet-rich plasma or leukocyte-poor platelet-rich plasma combined with an exercised-based rehabilitation program was not more effective than saline for patients with patellar tendinopathy, according to recently published results.

About one-quarter of young elite athletes experienced exercise-induced bronchoconstriction and had evidence of epithelial damage, according to a Belgian study published in the Journal of Allergy and Clinical Immunology.

BOSTON — According to a presentation at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting, partial patellar tendon tears are located either posterior or posteromedial in the proximal patellar tenon. Patellar tendon thickness was the most sensitive metric for partial patellar tendon tears, with thickness of more than 8.8 mm being a strong predictor of surgical intervention.

Retired National Football League players were more than five times as likely to have atrial fibrillation compared with men in the general population, according to findings published in the Journal of the American Heart Association.