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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. Yet for the American women's soccer sensation Alex Morgan, her injury wasn't. In fact, five years after sustaining that injury, Ms. Morgan went on to score the goal against Canada that sent the U.S. to the gold-medal game at the London Olympics.

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. Skiing can be an excellent way to get outside and get some physical activity, but it's essential to be mindful of the potential risks, particularly when it comes to knee injuries. Engaging in specific preparatory ski exercises can significantly contribute to injury prevention during skiing, ensuring a safer, more enjoyable experience.

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. It turns out, adolescent athletes who slept eight or more hours each night were 68 percent less likely to be injured than athletes who regularly slept less, according to an abstract presented Oct.

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. The majority of them offer volleyball as a fall team sport for girls with daily practices, weekly games, weekend tournaments and, as I have seen firsthand, endless opportunities for ankle, shoulder, finger and knee injuries.

Not surprisingly, the most common volleyball-related injuries we see at Great Basin Orthopaedics are ankle injuries.

News study affirms Great Basin Orthopaedics practice of PT after ACL surgery

The physicians of Great Basin Orthopaedics have long stressed post-surgical physical therapy as an essential part of a successful ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) reconstruction.

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. Thirty-four years earlier she had had her first knee surgery after an ACL tear.

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. Cream, on the other hand, may be associated with lower BMD overall.

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