Nacca C, Gil JA, Badida R, Crisco JJ, Owens BD. Critical Glenoid Bone Loss in Posterior Shoulder Instability. Am J Sports Med 2018 Apr;46(5):1058-1063.
Read more about it on the American Journal of Sports Medicine website.
Congratulations to the Sports Injury Laboratory on their presentations at the AAOS Annual Meeting in New Orleans, LA. Great work everyone!
Lower preoperative KOOS and SF-36 scores were associated with those patients who developed symptomatic knee osteoarthritis 7 years after ACL reconstruction.”
Brett Owens, MD discusses ways to avoid winter sports injuries in this interview with The Doctor Will See You Now. Check out Charlotte LoBuono’s article here.
In the Sports Medicine segment of Doctor Radio on Sirius XM, Dr. Brett Owens hosted a segment about winter sports injuries. Doctor Radio offers segments on various topics in medicine by expert physicians. The press release for his talk can be found here.
Collegiate wrestlers have a high incidence of shoulder and elbow injury, with specific risk factors identified here. This at-risk patient population should be monitored closely for signs of fatigue, which may leave them susceptible to injury. Further prospective investigation of wrestling injuries with a special attention to injury prevention in higher risk athletes are needed to further validate these findings.”
Rehabilitation protocols after arthroscopic Bankart repair were found to be highly variable. They also varied with regard to published consensus protocols. This discrepancy may lead to confusion among therapists and patients.”
Brett Owens, MD and colleagues recently published a study which found that
female gender, age older than 40 years, BMI greater than 30, and other factors put patients at higher risk for hospital admission. For more information go to Several factors associated with hospital admission after arthroscopic Bankart repair, by Casey Tingle.
Brett Owens, MD was the first surgeon to perform the MACI procedure in the state of Rhode Island. Barbara Morse Silva sits down with Dr. Owens to discuss this new procedure with patient and athlete, Chris Jursek, who underwent the MACI surgery. To learn more, check out Health Check: Cartilage Repair Uses Patient’s Cells by Barbara Morse Silva at NBC 10 News, November 13th, 2017.
Dr. Owens was interviewed with other top orthopaedic surgeons in a New York Times article by Gina Kolata about arthritis in athletes who have torn knee ligaments. Dr. Owens focuses on the difficulty of discussing arthritis in young athletes after hearing they have torn a ligament. To learn more, check out If You Tear a Knee Ligament, Arthritis Is Likely to Follow in 10 Years by Gina Kolata at the New York Times, November 6th, 2017.