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Each year, Connecticut Magazine recognizes exceptional physicians in its annual “Top Doctors” issue. The 2024 list features more than 300 Yale Medicine physicians who were selected by their peers as the best in their fields, which includes 15 members of the Orthopaedics & Rehabilitation faculty.

18 Yale School of Medicine faculty were selected as the second longitudinal coach cohort.

Over the past decade, numerous clinical trials have explored the potential health benefits of psychedelics. Growing evidence shows hallucinogens may help treat mental health conditions like treatment-resistant depression and anxiety. However, the vast majority of studies on the therapeutic power of psychedelics have focused on their use as treatments for psychiatric conditions. Now, scientists are increasingly interested in exploring how the substances may impact physical disabilities. Early evidence, combined with anecdotal reports, suggests that psychoactive drugs may aid physical healing from serious injuries, such as spinal cord injuries and traumatic brain injuries.

All 12 Women's National Basketball Association teams have a team of trained orthopedic surgeons and physicians providing care for them. Michael Medvecky, MD is an orthopedic surgeon at Yale School of Medicine in New Haven, Connecticut and serves as the head team physician and head orthopedic surgeon for the Connecticut Sun.

If you're looking for a plan to improve your overall health and fitness , but one without rigid diet rules and promise-to-leave-you-sore workouts, "75 Soft" may be for you. The 75 Soft challenge is a 75-day plan to bolster health and fitness with nutrition, fitness, and mental health components. Fitness and nutrition experts say 75 Soft is overall a sustainable, doable, and accessible plan for improving health and fitness.

In today’s health headlines pickleball injuries are on the rise, steps you can take to stay safe on the court and signs that you should seek medical attention after a sports injury. An orthopedic sports medicine surgeon at Yale Medicine and associate professor of Clinical Orthopedics at Yale School of Medicine Dr. Jim Hsu.

The explosion in pickleball’s popularity in recent years has also generated a surge in injuries related to the sport, which is a hybrid of tennis, badminton, and ping-pong. From 2002 to 2022, there was a 90-fold increase in fractures related to pickleball, with most occurring in players between ages 60 and 69, according to a recent study.

Physician empathy is an important aspect in a doctor-patient relationship, and now it has been linked to better outcomes among people with chronic pain, a new study finds. The study, led by The University of North Texas Health Science Center at Fort Worth, was published Thursday in JAMA Network Open. Patients under the care of very empathic physicians reported experiencing much better and clinically relevant outcomes related to pain, function and health-related quality of life over 12 months compared with those managed by slightly empathic physicians. Physician empathy was more strongly associated with favorable outcomes than nonpharmacological treatments, opioid therapy and lumbar spine surgery, the researchers noted.

Avant-Garde Health recently announced the Healthcare Research All-Stars 2024 list, which recognizes top physicians and hospitals across 10 specialties, including orthopedic surgery. Of 182 total orthopedic surgeons named nationwide, six department faculty members ranked within the top 5%.