Emerging therapies in sports medicine. Orthobiologics is the field of medicine that harnesses the use of a patient’s own capacity to heal an injury. This innate capacity of healing comes from cells of one’s own body to repair and restore good health to damaged tissues. The field of orthobiologics has been in existence for several decades but has become more developed in ... Continue Reading
Remaining Active Over 35
Tips and tricks from the pros. When thinking about how to remain active in our mid-30s, 40s or 50s, choosing the right activities is key to balancing health and injury. At this life stage, we are usually past our peak athletic years but still enjoy working out or playing a few rec sports leagues – we have become “weekend warriors.” Unfortunately, as we get older, ... Continue Reading
Orthopaedic Traumatology
By Steven Kane, M.D. The Atlanta Medical Center department of orthopaedics is responsible for training 20 residents and providing comprehensive musculoskeletal trauma care to our patients. The practice of orthopaedics covers a wide range of subspecialties, including trauma, joint reconstruc-tion and foot and ankle, hand, pediatric, oncology and sports medicine surgery. ... Continue Reading
Athletic Injuries of the Foot and Ankle
By Sourendra Raut, M.D. From ATLANTA Medicine, Vol. 86, No. 1 Foot and ankle injuries are common in both recreational and competitive athletes. As we encourage our patients to become more active, we will begin to see an increasing number of these ailments, both on the sideline and in our clinics. At the collegiate level, ankle ligament sprains accounted for 14.9 ... Continue Reading
Bursitis and Hip Pain
By Bob Yarbrough, M.D. From ATLANTA Medicine, Vol. 86, No. 1 Injuries surrounding the hip are common sources ofpain in adults. Effective treatment relies on accurate diagnoses and pointed treatments. Often, hip pain is mistakenly diagnosed as back pain and vice versa. Simultaneous evaluation of the lumbar spine is recommended in these patients. Accurate diagnosis of ... Continue Reading
The State of Low Back Pain
By Bennett Grimm, M.D. From ATLANTA Medicine, Vol. 86, No. 1 It's safe to say that most people will experience low back pain at least once during their lifetime. In fact, the 2010 Global Burden of Disease Study found that low back caused more disability worldwide than any other of the 291 conditions studied with a point prevalence of nearly 10 percent.1 Similarly, low ... Continue Reading
Anterior Cruciate Ligament Injuries
By Ryan Chen, M.D. From ATLANTA Medicine, Vol. 86, No. 1 “A-C-Lâ€is the three-letter word that no athlete wants to hear. The anterior cruciate ligament is critical to stability of the knee and is the primary restraint to anterior tibial translation. Every year, professional athletes such as Tiger Woods, Tom Brady and Lindsey Vonn sustain season-ending ACL ruptures. ... Continue Reading
Advances in Orthopaedic Trauma
By Douglas W. Lundy, M.D., MBA, FACS From ATLANTA Medicine, Vol. 86, No. 1 Orthopaedic surgery is a diverse specialty comprised of multiple subspecialties focused on anatomic areas or pathologic processes (degenerative disease, developmental or trauma). Although the origins of orthopaedic surgery stem from treatment of children affected by polio, a tremendous portion of ... Continue Reading
Rheumatoid Arthritis
By W. Hayes Wilson, M.D. From ATLANTA Medicine, 2014, Vol. 85, No. 3 Rheumatoid Arthritis (RA) is the prototypical autoimmune arthritis. It’s a rheumatologic illness with the most immune targeted therapies. In the late 1990s, TNF inhibitors were introduced and marked the advent of targeted biologic therapy for RA. The evolution of therapy for rheumatoid arthritis ... Continue Reading
Spinal Cord Injury: State of the Art Interventions for Recovery
By John L. Lin, M.D., FACP, FAAPMR From ATLANTA Medicine Vol. 84, No. 4 As a subspecialty of rehabilitative medicine, spinal cord injury medicine has evolved extensively since its first historical description 5,000 years ago by the Egyptian physician Imhotep on a papyrus as “an ailment not to be treated.†More than 2,000 years ago, Hippocrates treated spinal ... Continue Reading
Understanding and Treating Spasticity
By Joshua Vova, M.D., FAAP, FAAPMR The most common accepted definition of spasticity was characterized in 1980 by James Lance, who defined it as “a motor disorder characterized by a velocity dependent increase in (muscle tone) with exaggerated tendon jerks, resulting from hyperexcitability of the stretch reflex.(1)†In addition to increased muscle tone and hyperactive ... Continue Reading
Stem Cell Injections May Relieve Arthritis Pain
By Kathi Baker Emory Orthopaedics & Spine Center is now one of a small number of clinics in the country to offer a cutting edge stem cell treatment for Osteoarthritis (OA). The procedure involves extracting stem cell blood from the bone marrow in a patient's hip, removing the plasma, concentrating the remaining fluid in a centrifuge, and then injecting the ... Continue Reading
Total Knee Replacement In The Obese Patient
September 2007 The most severe epidemic in America today does not involve a virus or bacteria, but is the epidemic of obesity. If you have been on an airplane in the past year you know what I am talking about, the person in the middle row is broader than the seat was designed and your room is being taken up by that person. Obesity is defined medically by looking at what ... Continue Reading
