It would be hard to have spent any time this past month in the United States, my home country, and not be aware that today is “Super Sunday,” when the Philadelphia Eagles and the perennial ch...
https://cjsmblog.com/2018/02/04/like-the-oscars-but-with-concussions/
I love sports as well as sports medicine. For many of us, our path to this field saw us grow from athletes or fans ourselves to physicians who kept ‘in the game’ by caring for other athlete...
https://cjsmblog.com/2017/12/08/the-impact-of-clavicle-fractures-on-return-to-play-in-nfl-athletes/
The intersection of social media and sports medicine has been an interest of mine (and CJSM) for some time. Today, that relationship provides an opportunity to have the blog readers take a poll a...
I was witness to two big events in the world of professional American Football this weekend: I watched the movie Concussion and I saw the ugly contest which was the Pittsburgh vs. Cincinnati NF...
To be clear, my topic today is NOT a survey of what cannabis legalization has wrought in states like Washington or Colorado . The grasses we’re discussing are ‘Bermuda,’ ‘Fescue,’ ‘Bl...
It’s a Tuesday as I write, so literally (and figuratively) I do not propose to do any “Monday Morning Quarterbacking.” I’ll leave it to others to deconstruct Pete Carroll’s decision a...
Why is Marshawn Lynch not talking? Will #DeflateGate show up in the next edition of Webster’s dictionary? Might Richard Sherman be in a hospital labor and delivery room rather than the stadium...
After all the talk about Manning’s comeback, Sherman’s rant, the NYC vs. NJ rivalry, and the weather….we have come at last to Super Bowl Sunday. The high holiday of American football. The c...
Originally posted on Clinical Journal of Sport Medicine Blog : The editorial in this month’s CJSM by Coombes and colleagues on Intravenous Rehydration in the National Football League highli...
https://cjsmblog.com/2014/01/31/pre-game-intravenous-hyperhydration-anyone-2/
Like many of the readers out there, my colleagues and I are deep in a football season, where we are managing various teams and their mounting injuries. For a sports medicine physician, fall in ...