Mental Health Awareness Month – A High School Athlete’s Story
Injuries can be devastating to an athlete of any age. It typically means loss in many respects… of goals, dreams, aspirations, normal physical activity,... Read More.
Pediatric Sports Medicine Podcast
Collect more innovative experience and hear stories from a Pediatric Sports Medicine Doctor (Dr. Mark Halstead) who covers and educates about current hot topics in the world of the young athrlete relevant to health care professionals.
Research Review — The Shoulder
It’s time for another Research Review on the Pediatric Sports Medicine Podcast. Today we tackle the shoulder. We’ll review 3 articles covering shoulder instability... Read More.
Dental Injuries in Sports
When we talk about sports medicine, we think about injuries to all sorts of structures in our body…the muscles and tendons, ligaments, bones, the... Read More.
Life as an Athletic Trainer. National Athletic Training Month 2021
We are nearing the end of March 2021. It is Brain Injury Awareness Month but certainly not to be overlooked, it’s also National Athletic... Read More.
CTE: A Conversation with Chris Nowinski
Chronic Traumatic Encephalopathy, otherwise known as CTE, is a major topic when talking about the spectrum of things related to brain injury in sports.... Read More.
Remembering Jake Snakenberg: Brain Injury Awareness Month 2021
It’s March and that means it’s Brain Injury Awareness Month. It’s easy for many of us to see the many patients who come into... Read More.
Research Review: Protective Equipment
There is a lot of equipment out there we use with our young athletes to hopefully reduce the risk of injury. Some is required... Read More.
Discoid Meniscus: A PRISM RIG Discussion
If you do any sort of sports medicine, you’ve heard of the meniscus, that shock absorber between the bones in the knee. Do you... Read More.
The Pediatric Heart and COVID
It’s 2021. CoVID-19 is still here. We amazingly have a vaccine out and I’m so thankful and grateful to the scientists who worked tirelessly... Read More.
The MOON and MARS ACL Studies
Did you know that when you think of the words MOON and MARS, they actually have a meaning outside of our celestial bodies in... Read More.
What is the PRISM Society?
Have you heard of PRISM? I’m not talking about A prism, the geometric shape, but the sports medicine organization PRISM. If you haven’t, you’ll... Read More.
Nutrition for Athletes, Part 2
Carbs, protein and fat. Macro and micronutrients. Dieting and calories. Supplements. All things that athletes are concerned about to varying degrees. Proper nutrition is... Read More.
