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Five Questions with Connecticut Whale Team Physician, Mark Dundas, MD
Team physicians are medically licensed providers who are either a medical doctor (MD) or doctor of osteopathy (DO) and are responsible for the overall medical care for athletes competing in individual, team, and mass participation sporting events. Mark Dundas, MD, Assistant Professor of Clinical Orthopaedics at Yale School of Medicine and a physiatrist with Yale Medicine, offers an inside look to what it is like serving as the team physician for the Connecticut Whale Women’s Professional Hockey Team.
14 Mar 2023
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How To Tell if You Have a Concussion
Parents, coaches and athletes should learn to recognize the signs of a concussion. Usually associated with football, concussions can happen with many other sports including soccer, hockey, gymnastics and cheerleading. A concussion is a subtype of a mild traumatic brain injury and does not require imaging or lab tests for a diagnosis. Instead, healthcare professionals can identify a concussion based on the rapid onset of neurological symptoms following a blow to the head or body. Samantha Smith, MD talks about treatments and safety precautions.
Source: Yale New Haven Health
1 Mar 2023
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Yale Doctors Explain How to Avoid Top Winter Injuries
Five specialists at Yale Medicine, who are also professors at the Yale School of Medicine, weigh in on the top winter injuries to avoid, which include everything from harm to the hands, the spine, and the heart.
Source: NBC Connecticut
28 Feb 2023
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Four UConn students hospitalized following sledding collisions
Orthopaedic trauma surgeon, Matthew Riedel, MD, spoke with WFSB about common sledding accidents after four UConn students were hospitalized following collisions on Horsebarn Hill at the Storrs campus.
Source: WFSB
28 Feb 2023
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Studies: Exercise could reverse muscle aging, best time to burn fat
With spring right around the corner many people are excited to get out and get active again. Liz Gardner, MD spoke with WTNH about the benefits of exercise and new research that reveals how physical activity could rejuvenate aged muscle at the genetic level.
Source: WTNH
22 Feb 2023
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Medicine in the Metaverse Summit
The Yale Extended Reality(XR) in Medicine community hosted the Medicine in the Metaverse summit at Yale’s West Campus on February 13-14, 2023 in partnership with Accenture Labs and Google. Yale faculty, staff and students were joined by over 50 representatives from 30 institutions.
14 Feb 2023
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Surgery Enables Pawcatuck Woman to Stand for the First Time
A surgery performed by David Frumberg, MD enabled a 21-year old Pawcatuck woman to stand for the first time. Arianna Howard, who has cerebral palsy and has been in a wheelchair for her whole life, had surgery in December to straighten her legs and help her stand. Her family and surgeon hope her surgery will contribute to helping better understand the surgeries possible for adults with Cerebral Palsy.
Source: The Day
12 Feb 2023
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Can You Get Rheumatoid Arthritis in Your Hips?
If you’ve found yourself limping, noticed hip pain while walking, and felt stiff for more than an hour after awaking, you might be wondering whether this is normal aging or something else. While rheumatoid arthritis (RA) more commonly affects small joints in the knuckles, wrists and elbows, for some people, the chronic autoimmune disease can first appear in the hips.
Source: HealthCentral
9 Feb 2023
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Will You Get Knee Arthritis After ACL Surgery? What to Know
New research has potentially identified why some people have a higher risk of developing arthritis after anterior cruciate ligament reconstruction (ACL) surgery. People who rupture their ACL have a 8.2 fold greater risk of knee osteoarthritis within 11 years. A new study finds evidence that the less weight and force people put on their injured knee after surgery the more likely they will develop arthritis in their knee. The new findings suggest there’s likely a link between the amount of contact force a joint is exposed to and joint degradation
Source: Healthline
8 Feb 2023
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Year-long journey after horrific injury leads official back to ice
It was three minutes into the first period last Valentine’s Day when players from North Haven and Immaculate collided in the neutral zone at Northford Ice Pavilion. Tumbling to the ice, the two wiped out longtime hockey official, Marty Tangredi, along the sideboards. A terrible knee dislocation injury, which happened in a flash, has required a year’s journey of surgery, rehabilitation, determination and positivity that he, frankly, admits he didn’t know he had.
Source: CT Insider
3 Feb 2023
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Comparative Success of Repair Versus Reconstruction for Knee Extra-articular Ligament Injuries
Surgical techniques and associated outcomes in treating acute and chronic extra-articular ligament knee injuries are in evolution, and there is question as to whether repair or reconstruction is optimal. Researchers compared the subsequent surgery rate between surgical repair versus reconstruction for all extra-articular ligament injuries of the knee utilizing a large database. Their hypothesis was that overall surgical repair of both lateral and medial extra-articular knee injuries would have a higher revision rate than those treated by reconstruction.
3 Feb 2023
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Second Primary Malignancies of the Bones and Joints: More Common than Expected in Osteosarcoma Patients
Osteosarcoma is the most common primary bone tumor in children, adolescents, and young adults worldwide, with an incidence of 3.4 million people per year. It is usually found in appendicular skeleton, such as the distal femur (43%), proximal tibia (23%), or humerus (10%), but may also arise axially. Although most common in younger patients, there is an increasing prevalence among elderly patients.
3 Feb 2023
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How to Relieve COVID-19 Muscle Aches and Pains
Sore throat and a runny or stuffy nose may be common signs of COVID-19, but it’s important to remember that the coronavirus can cause a wide range of symptoms, some of them still mystifying. Among those lesser-known symptoms: muscle aches and pains, known in the medical field as myalgia. Yale physiatrist, Jennifer Hankenson, MD, explains how she is treating these patients as a physical medicine and rehabilitation specialist.
Source: Everyday Health
30 Jan 2023
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Hip abduction can be considered the sole posterior precaution strategy to lower the rate of impingement after posterior approach total hip arthroplasty with large femoral head: a computer simulation study
Studies suggest that posterior hip precautions are unnecessary after total hip arthroplasty (THA); however, many surgeons and patients choose to follow these precautions to some extent.
Source: The Journal of Arthroplasty
26 Jan 2023
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How to Treat Pain in Your Head, Knees, Feet, or Back
Up to one-third of adults ages 65 and older regularly experience foot pain, according to a 2019 study in the journal Arthritis Care & Research. One age-related factor may be osteoarthritis, a wearing away of cartilage, often between your foot joints, says Sean Peden, MD, a foot and ankle orthopedic surgeon at Yale Medicine.
Source: Consumer Reports
23 Jan 2023
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This Is Your Body On A 10-Minute Walk
It can feel intimidating to commit to an ongoing fitness plan, especially one that meets recommended guidelines in the U.S. The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommends 150 minutes of moderate physical activity weekly. Yale Orthopaedic Surgeon, Samantha Smith, MD talks about how short bursts of exercise can help improve physical and mental well-being and reduce risks associated with a sedentary lifestyle.
Source: HuffPost
9 Jan 2023
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Cardiac arrests like Damar Hamlin’s are rare—but teams must be prepared
Buffalo Bills safety player Damar Hamlin collapsed on the field during Monday night’s football game versus the Cincinnati Bengals after a blow to the chest. Hamlin immediately became unresponsive, falling into cardiac arrest and prompting medical staff to start life-resuscitating measures. Liz Gardner, MD weighs in on the rarity of heart problems in impact sports but explains that teams need to be prepared.
Source: Popular Science
6 Jan 2023
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The 5 Best IT Band Exercises to Prevent Hip Tightness
Body tightness — in any area — is unpleasant, to say the least. And a tight iliotibial band (aka your IT band) is no exception. Usually, a tight IT band leads to discomfort or pain in the hip and knee areas, which can force you to change how you are moving and might evolve into larger problems such as IT band syndrome, in which your IT band gets swollen and majorly irritated from rubbing against your hip or knee bones. In other words, IT band tightness is no fun at all.
Source: Yahoo!
29 Dec 2022
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How Important Is Stretching, Really?
Most of us have been taught from a young age that failing to stretch before or after exercising is akin to a mortal sin. Skip your stretching routine, the thinking goes, and you’ll be more prone to injury, soreness and a generally worse workout. But is this wisdom backed by science? And do you really need to stretch before and after every exercise? “The simplest way to answer that question would be no,” said Dr. Samantha Smith, an assistant professor of clinical orthopedics and rehabilitation at the Yale School of Medicine. But the longer answer, experts say, is that it depends on the type of workout you’re doing as well as your fitness goals.
Source: New York Times
15 Dec 2022
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Yale Southwick Society Expands Orthopaedic Interest Group to Create Opportunities in Honor of Inaugural Chair’s Legacy
The Southwick Society was founded in the Fall of 2022 to support the continuing advancement of musculoskeletal education for medical students and is taught by the department’s faculty and residents. Students who join will receive mentorship opportunities, clinical education, and tactile exercises to prepare them for a future career in orthopaedic surgery.
14 Dec 2022