(KTVI – FOX2now.com) — Home for the holidays doesn’t mean you’re a kid again. It usually starts at the dinner table rehashing those times when you were kids. That leads to a family football or basketball game. And the next thing you know, you’re on the ground with an ice-pack, trying to track down someone like Dr. Rick Lehman. He talks about how to avoid the holiday sports injuries.
(KTVI – FOX2now.com) — It was a big blow to the Blues as forward TJ Oshie is sideline for 3 months with a broken ankle. Oshie shattered his ankle in a fight in the Columbus game last week. Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Rick Lehman talks about it.
All About The ACL Now that we are entrenched in the NFL season as well as the college football season, one of the most common dreaded injuries in sports medicine is damage to the anterior cruciate ligament. To give our readers an idea of the severity, approximately 400,000 anterior cruciate ligament reconstructions are done annually [...]
Download Detailed Information Purpose The Kensey Nash Corp. Cartilage Repair Device is a bioresorbable scaffold designed to promote repair of knee cartilage and subchondral bone. Subjects with knee cartilage damage meeting eligibility criteria will be randomly assigned to receive treatment with the Cartilage Repair Device or a standard surgical technique called microfracture. The purpose of [...]
Osgood-Schlatter’s Disease Osgood-Schlatter’s is an osteochondrosis of the proximal tibial apophysis. Generally, Osgood-Schlatter’s disease is associated with the rapid growth of adolescence. The area of concern is where the patellar tendon inserts into the tibia or the shin bone, and commonly, there is a large bump or knot that is extremely tender, painful and visible [...]
Knee Patella Instability With the summer in full flow, knee injuries to both men and woman are on the rise. One of the more common problems that we see here at the U.S. Center for Sports Medicine in young athletes is instability of the patella. This can happen traumatically or atraumatically. In a traumatic dislocation [...]
The tip of the month includes a multivitamin and one baby aspirin a day to maintain good health.
Hydrate, Hydrate, Hydrate!
Heat-Related Syndromes It is August in St. Louis and we have gone through another hot St. Louis summer. One of the most pressing problems that a parent, coach or sideline physician will deal with is dehydration and heat-related syndromes. Dehydration can occur in any temperature, but is seen most commonly as football starts up, two-a-day [...]
(KTVI – FOX2now.com) – How far will some women go to fit into high heels? Shaving bones in toes, botox injections, tendon corrections – it’s a new trend in cosmetic surgery called “the Cinderella Procedure”. And it’s all so women can squeeze into those stilettos. Orthopedic surgeon Dr. Rick Lehman talks about the risk and [...]
