On today’s episode we’re focusing on patellofemoral cartilage defects with Dr. Cassandra Lee, an orthopaedic sports medicine surgeon, team physician for the UC Davis Aggies and Sacramento Republic FC, and chief of the sports medicine service at UC Davis. Dr. Lee has published on and spoken a lot about cartilage – both at the basic science level as well as clinical application – so we’re excited to have her join the discussion today.

In this episode, we’re going to continue our discussion with Candace Townley Cox and focus on rehabilitation of quad function and lower extremity mobility after surgery.

We start with a systematic review from the August 2022 issue of AJMS titled The Effects of Blood Flow Restriction in Patients Undergoing Knee Surgery.

On today’s episode we’re focusing on rehabilitation of ACL surgery with Candace Townley Cox, a Doctor of Physical Therapy and body movement expert at Evolution Physical Therapy. Today’s discussion will center around tips and tricks to optimize outcomes and some common pitfalls that may hold patients back from a full recovery.

Should NFL Offensive Linemen Use Prophylactic Knee Braces? A Retrospective Analysis of Usage Trends, Player Performance, and Major Knee Injury. Offensive linemen in American football are prone to high-energy valgus forces to the knee and associated ligament injuries.

Pediatric Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction: Adding Lateral Extra-Articular Tenodesis Resulted in Similar Return to Sport without Increasing Pain Scores.

Older Adults Take Longer to Achieve the Patient Acceptable Symptom State following Primary Hip Arthroscopy for Femoroacetabular Impingement: A Retrospective Analysis with 2-Year Follow-Up.

Management of Meniscal Tears: Costs and Timing of Surgery and was presented by Liz Matzkin and her team at Mass General Brigham.

Factors Associated with Return of Quadriceps Strength following ACL Reconstruction using Quad Tendon Autograft.

Tune into our special episode highlighting the 40th Anniversary of the Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society. This episode is focused on goal setting!

We’re excited to be in the studio today recording this episode on returning to play after arthroscopic stabilization for anterior shoulder instability. Now, we did a whole episode on shoulder instability back in March of 2021 with Dr. Mark Price – shoulder surgeon at Massachusetts General Hospital and team physician for the New England Patriots.

On today’s episode, we’re going to chat about the treatment of distal biceps tendon ruptures. We’ve seen this injury across many sports and in some prominent players – for example, Miguel Cabrera, all-star first baseman, sustained a biceps tendon rupture while at bat, when he swung and missed an off-speed pitch. We also see this injury in cross fit athletes, body builders and overhead laborers. This can be a devastating injury for our athletes, so understanding the treatment technique options, post-op rehab and what return to sports and return to work looks like is very important.

We’re going to continue our discussion with Dr. Clayton Nuelle and focus on an overall treatment algorithm to approach different types of cartilage lesions and select the optimal surgical treatment for various cases.

On today’s episode we’re focusing on cartilage defects of the knee with Dr. Clayton Nuelle, Assistant Clinical Professor at the University of Missouri and team physician for Mizzou athletics. His current research focuses on improving cartilage restoration and joint preservation techniques, so we are very excited to have him join us for our discussion today.

On today’s episode, we’re going to chat about a relatively new surgical treatment for cartilage injury of the knee called Matrix-Induced Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation or MACI for short. Now, while this episode will focus primarily on the MACI procedure, we will be releasing a bigger episode in a couple of weeks that goes through all of the different surgical treatments for knee cartilage disease. We’ll be joined by an awesome guest for that one, so be sure to subscribe to our podcast and keep your eyes peeled for that two-part episode coming soon.

We’re going to continue our discussion with Dr. Melissa Christino and dive deeper into the mental side of athletes recovering from ACL injury.

On today’s episode we are focusing the mental side of the injured athlete: what factors influence the psychological aspects of return to play, what criteria are used to determine readiness and how this all differs between sports, injury types and gender.

On today’s episode, we’re going to chat about treatment of Achilles tendon ruptures. We’ve seen this injury across many sports and in very prominent players – Kevin Durant, Klay Thompson, Brandon Brooks who tore both of his Achilles tendons one year apart. This can be a devastating injury for our athletes, so understanding the treatment options, post-op rehab and what return to sport looks like is very important.

The Sports Docs Year in Review 2021

We’re going to continue our discussion with Dr. Anand Murthi and focus on the surgical treatment options for irreparable rotator cuff tears.

On today’s episode we’re focusing on rotator cuff tears with Dr. Anand Murthi, Chief of Shoulder and Elbow surgery at MedStar Union Memorial Hospital and Professor of Orthopedic Surgery at Georgetown University.