Artificial Intelligence. As a child of the 80s, I remember fondly one of my favorite movies and its subsequent sequels about when the machines gain self-awareness and take over. If you are too young and don’t recall that movie, perhaps you remember the catch […]

  Welcome to National Athletic Training Month 2025. Each year we highlight several athletic trainers to talk about their roles, some interesting cases, struggles, and advice for those starting out in the field. Today on the podcast, I am joined by two athletic trainers who […]

  In sports medicine, we see a lot of swollen joints. Typically, they are from an injury, but not every single swollen joint is from something structurally damaged. It may be an inflammatory issue. How do we tease this out as sports medicine professionals? Our […]

  We are continuing our series of podcasts called “Pediatric Sport Medicine Profiles.” There have been some individuals who have been significantly influential in this pediatric sports medicine, whether it be training many of us, people who have completed critical research, those who have been […]

  You may have noticed the large puffy extensions on some football helmets in recent years. They are kind of hard to miss. The NFL recommended the Guardian Caps to certain positions for preseason in 2022 and extended their use recently now allowing them for […]

  We are in our sixth year of the podcast and I’m in the middle of my 20th year as a sports medicine physician. Twenty years flew by which means I’ve probably passed the halfway point in my medical career, unless I feel inspired to […]

  If you are involved with sports medicine, you have no doubt interacted with someone involved in cheerleading. From young ages, our youth are participating in cheer in various forms in private clubs or through their schools. However, is cheerleading safe? Today on the podcast […]

  I wanted to take a moment to express my condolences to the Rice family as I found out just a little bit earlier today that doctor Stephen Rice, who we had on the podcast back in April of 2023, so a little over a […]

  If you are like me, you love the Olympics. Winter or Summer, it doesn’t matter. Watching the best of the best athletes from around the world in so many different sports is just incredible. My wife and I are partial to the track and […]

  Throughout much of the country, heat and humidity are starting to become the norm. As we inch closer to fall and especially with football practices and camps starting, those of us in sports medicine are on high alert for a potential surge in heat-related […]