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- Sports Medicine Experts Offer Insights during Beijing Olympic Games
July 22, 2008 - Several service members have been selected as USOC team physicians for past Olympic Games. This year, Scott A. Rodeo, MD, HSS Sports Medicine Service co-chief, and John Cavanaugh, PT, MEd, ATC, HSS Sports Rehabilitation and Performance Center clinical supervisor, will go to Beijing to support the U.S. teams....
- Hospital for Special Surgery Ranked No. 1 by U.S. News & World Report
July 11, 2008 - For the second straight year, Hospital for Special Surgery (HSS) has been named the top hospital in the nation in orthopedics by U.S. News & World Report in its 2008 "America's Best Hospitals" survey...
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- SPECIAL REPORT: Use of Tommy John Surgery for Young Elbows on the Rise
August 22, 2008 - In combination with overuse, poor conditioning and a lack of focus on strength training contribute to the increasing occurrence of injuries that need to be corrected by Tommy John surgery, according to David Altchek, M.D., of the Hospital for Special Surgery in New York.
"The most important thing is this issue of adequate preparation from an athletic point of view," he said. "We see a lot of kids who are talented pitchers because they have natural talent but haven't trained into athletes."...
- Elite sport comes with a health warning
August 21, 2008 - Olympic athletes appear the peak of physical form, youthful, muscled and lean, but many push themselves to play through pain, undergo multiple operations, and often end up with the knees or hips of people twice their age.
And for younger athletes, who tend to be disproportionately female, there are yet more health issues related to intense training before bodies are fully developed....
- A U.S. Olympic team doctor blogs from Beijing: The guts, the glory, the gastrointestinal problems
August 20, 2008 - Take, for instance, the live-from-the-Beijing Olympics blog being written by Dr. Scott Rodeo (pronounced row-dee-oh, not the fancy row-day-oh), an orthopedic surgeon on the medical team treating U.S. Olympic athletes....
