The following is an interview with Dr. Nathan Yokel, Physician at Regenerative Orthopedic and Sports Medicine located in Washington, DC and Northern Virginia area. We will discuss Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) and regenerative medicine and get a deeper insight on this emerging field of medicine. Chris: What is it that you do and what is [...]
Just how effective is PRP? Like most treatments, the effectiveness of PRP greatly depends on the severity of the injury. It also depends upon other factors, such as chronic systemic inflammation, obesity, and age. PRP injections may last between 6-8 months, again depending on the factors noted previously. Because PRP is a new and [...]
Regenerative medicine utilizes two types of injections to facilitate tissue healing following an injury. These injections are often used as an alternative to more invasive and traumatic surgical techniques and represent a new and exciting direction in orthopedic and sports medicine. The two types of injections utilized most frequently in regenerative medicine are platelet-rich [...]
Concussion Management in the Young Athlete The word concussion is heard more in the mainstream media but what are the reasons why? Has the way we approach concussion treatment changed? Dr. Mathew Pombo, a highly regarded orthopedic surgeon with the Emory Orthopaedic surgery faculty, has brought increased awareness of concussion management and currently serves [...]
So what does actual treatment for a concussion entail? In our last blog, we addressed the signs of symptoms of post-concussion syndrome, noting that an athlete may not return to play until the symptoms have cleared. More than 80% of concussions will heal within the first 3 weeks but for the 20% that do [...]
Last month, I had the opportunity to attend a concussion awareness workshop. It was designed to help educate coaches and parents on the prevalence and importance of proper concussion management. The city of Norwalk, CT had hired Katherine Snedaker LCSW, a well known concussion expert, to help identify the population of children who were [...]
Our third blog in the concussion series will take a look at what post-concussion management looks like from a physical therapy point of view. If you haven’t had a chance to read our first two installments in this series – “What is a concussion?” and “How often do concussions occur in sports?” – take [...]
In our last post, we talked about what a concussion is, and potential acute deficits that occur as a result. Once a concussion is defined, there are multiple questions that usually follow. This blog post will address some of those questions. “How often do concussions occur in athletic populations?” According to Khurana et al [...]
In the fall, we seem to hear the term ‘concussion’ much more frequently than other times of the year. But what is it? Why does this word get used so frequently, and what are the implications of a concussion? Many people dismiss it as a player’s excuse for sitting out for a few plays. [...]
The month of October has been nationally recognized as Breast Cancer Awareness Month in an effort to promote funding for research in the hopes of finding a cure for the disease. Current breast cancer treatments range from radiation treatments, to lymphectomy (removal of affected lymph node tissue) to mastectomy (removal of total breast tissue), [...]
