Hunter Firment

The ruling of the United States Supreme Court in National Collegiate Athletic Association v. Alston, 2021, paved the way for collegiate athletes to monetize their name, image and likeness.Since then, the professionalization of amateur athletics has evolved rapidly, with name, image and likeness (NIL) policies expanding to apply to high school athletes in states where it has been legalized.

Results published in The Journal of Knee Surgery showed National Football League players may be more likely to sustain knee extensor mechanism tears during short and normal rest weeks vs. longer rest weeks.“If this is something that could be prevented by rehab and early detection, maybe we never get to the point where the injury does occur,” Steven F. DeFroda, MD, MEng, orthopedic

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Due to a lack of sufficient malpractice liability coverage and the steadily increasing value of professional sports contracts, surgeons face significant financial risks when caring for elite athletes, according to data presented here.“Athletes, franchises and agents need to understand that although it is an honor to take care of professional athletes, we are at

Osteogenesis imperfecta, also known as “brittle bone disease,” is a rare genetic condition frequently diagnosed in childhood and typically caused by mutations in COL1A1 and COL1A2 genes.Historically, Ricki S. Carroll, MD, MBE, skeletal dysplasia and palliative care pediatrician at Nemours Children’s Hospital, Delaware, told Healio the severity of osteogenesis imperfecta (OI) was

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Wearable technologies may prevent injuries and improve athletes’ recovery and on-field performance, according to a presenter at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting.“The way we take care of athletes has continued to evolve,” James E. Voos, MD, Jack and Mary Herrick distinguished chair in orthopedics and sports medicine at

A post-pandemic rise in head and shoulder injuries for pediatric ice hockey players may suggest the need for safer equipment standards, according to data published in Injury.“There is the consideration of how kids get their equipment, the quality of their equipment and the fit of their equipment. In a sport like hockey where there is high velocity and high impact, making sure that you have

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Direct telephone assistance may help mitigate systemic bias in electronic patient-reported outcome measure follow-up and health outcome monitoring, according to results presented here.“It still comes down to the human side sometimes, where you have that direct human contact with your patient. If you did not, you would lose a significant portion of your population of

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Failure rates in patients who had a documented seizure prior to a shoulder stabilization procedure are “unacceptably high,” according to data presented here.“It was easy in the past to bury your head in the sand and not deal with the complex problem because the dogma was you cannot do anything until they are seizure free for 3 to 6 months,” Julie

NASHVILLE, Tenn. — Patients who sustained Achilles tendon ruptures while playing pickleball benefit from surgical fixation, according to data presented at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting.“Most patients who suffer pickleball-related Achilles tendon ruptures will experience significant improvements in function and will have a high rate of

Surgical procedures to repair the hand have historically been performed in the OR with patients receiving general anesthesia.However, the growth of field sterility has made many hand surgery procedures accessible to an in-office wide-awake local anesthesia no tourniquet (WALANT) surgical technique, providing both surgeons and patients with a new take on the surgical experience.