Perhaps you’ve experienced it yourself, a dull aching pain in the front of the lower leg when running or exercising. The pain may come on during activity and go away only to come on again after you’re done.
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Knee injuries on the rise in young athletes
Are all those fields filled with pint-sized soccer players a breeding ground for injury?
Advances in orthopaedic surgery have reduced the ACL recovery timeline
Imagine being a young, world-class athlete at the top of your game and on the path to the Olympics when tragedy strikes. You tear your ACL (anterior cruciate ligament). In a stop-and-go running sport like soccer, that can be a career-ending injury.
Try these ski exercises to avoid knee injury on the slopes
Our beautiful Sierra Nevada mountains offer great opportunities to participate in year-round outdoor recreation, including skiing in the winter.
Have a tired teen? Look out for sports injuries.
As if parents of teens don’t have enough to worry about, add to the list concern over their kids getting enough sleep to avoid injury.
Why you may want to replace your sports drink with a banana
New study suggests banana offers many performance benefits.
So, you’ve got an intense workout planned–a run, bike ride, or gym session–what do you take for in-activity fuel? Sports drink, gels, chews, bars?
Rise in volleyball ankle injuries points to large problem-chronic injury in high school athletes
By Richard Hayes, MD, Great Basin Orthopaedics
There are twenty public and ten private high schools in Northern Nevada.
News study affirms Great Basin Orthopaedics practice of PT after ACL surgery
The physicians of Great Basin Orthopaedics
Shoulder pain? It could be your rotator cuff.
If it hurts to brush your hair or throw a baseball, and the pain doesn’t go away after a few days, you could have a rotator cuff tear. It’s a pretty common cause of shoulder pain and disability among adults, and it’s the most commonly torn structure in the shoulder.
Lindsey Vonn – exceptional athlete, not so exceptional injury
Lindsey Vonn’s talent and fearlessness on a ski slope may be quite rare, but unfortunately, her recent knee injury is a little more common.
Long Search for the Right Surgeon Pays Off for Avid Cyclist.
“I don’t want surgery,” Jenny Frayer told Dr. Thomas Fyda on her first visit to Great Basin Orthopaedics in 2007. “But it’s getting harder and harder to live with my knee the way it is.”
At 53 years old, the avid cyclist ended up in Dr. Fyda’s exam room reluctantly.
When It Comes to Bone Health, Not All Dairy Is Created Equal.
A study by researchers at the Institute for Aging Research (IFAR) at Hebrew SeniorLife, an affiliate of Harvard Medical School (HMS), has found that dairy intake -- specifically milk and yogurt -- is associated with higher bone mineral density (BMD) in the hip, but not the spine.