The Sports Docs Podcast

We’re coming to you live from the Arthroscopy Association of North America's Annual Meeting in Boston, MA!  This year, orthopedic professionals gathered from all over the world at the AANA meeting to take part in an exciting educational line up. The educational program was comprised of instructional course lectures, podium presentations and panels, as well as topic debates. Today, we’re going...

Welcome back to The Sports Docs Podcast!  In this episode, we’re going to continue our discussion with Dr. Bonnie Chien and focus on surgical treatment for Achilles tendon ruptures. Our conversation picks back up with an article from the March 2023 issue of AJSM titled “ Outcomes and Complications of Open Versus Minimally Invasive Repair of Acute Achilles Tendon Ruptures. ” This Level I meta-analy...

On today’s episode we’re focusing on Achilles tendon ruptures with Dr. Bonnie Chien. We have some great articles for you that contribute well to our conversation on the optimal management of Achilles tendon ruptures and the different surgical approaches. As always, links to all of the papers that we discuss on this show can be found on our podcast website – www.thesportsdocspod.com We’ll start off...

Today we’re going to give you an update pertaining to one of our favorite topics – ACL. And honestly, it’s been a bit since we done an episode on ACL so we’re excited to dive into this new paper today and talk more about how it will impact our practice. We’re going to review an article from the January issue of AJSM year titled “ Risk of Revision and Reoperation After Quadriceps Tendon Autograft A...

In this Overtime episode, The Sports Docs discuss the remplissage procedure and will be reviewing an article from the January issue of AJSM year titled “ Stabilizing Mechanisms in Patients Treated Using Hill-Sachs Remplissage with Bankart Repair in Abduction–External Rotation Position .” This study was performed by Dr. Fei Zhang and team in Beijing, China and analyzed the biomechanical effects of...

Our next poster is titled The Utility of Stress Ultrasound in Identifying Risk Factors for Elbow Ulnar Collateral Ligament Rupture: A Longitudinal Study of 203 Professional Baseball Players. This study was performed by your colleagues at the Rothman Institute and aimed to identify anatomic risk factors on dynamic ultrasound that may predispose players to future UCL injury. The authors found that p...

Our next poster is titled Primary Latarjet Procedure versus Latarjet in the Setting of Previously Failed Bankart Repair: A Systematic Review. We’ve spoken a lot about shoulder instability on this podcast, most recently with Yoni Rosenblatt last month discussing rehab tips and tricks after various shoulder stabilization surgeries. We also had Dr. Brian Lau on Episodes 48 and 49 to chat about the di...

Our next poster is titled Revision Osteochondral Allograft Transplantation after Failed Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation of the Knee: A Matched Cohort Analysis. Dr. Brian Cole and team at Rush sought to evaluate the clinical outcomes associated with revision OCA after failed ACI as compared with a matched cohort of patients undergoing primary OCA. They concluded that there was no difference in...

Our next AAOS 2024 Annual Meeting poster is titled The Statistical Fragility of Platelet-Rich Plasma in Lateral Epicondylitis: A Systematic Review and Simulated Fragility Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials. Our podcast tries to stay far away from statistical analysis and methodology breakdown; however, this poster draws attention to an important issue. Often in orthopedics we try to use stat...

Our next poster is titled Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair with Bioinductive Patch Achieves Equivalent Patient-Reported Outcomes At 1 Year and was performed by Dr. Stephanie Muh and team at Wayne State University and Henry Ford Medical Center.   The purpose of this study was to compare patient-reported outcomes, range of motion and complications of patients undergoing arthroscopic rotator cuff rep...

Our next AAOS 2024 Annual Meeting poster is titled The Influence of Donor Demographics on Outcomes following Knee Osteochondral Allograft Transplantation. This study was performed by Dr. Brian Cole and Dr. Adam Yanke at Rush and aimed to assess the impact of donor sex and age, donor-recipient sex mismatch, and graft storage duration on clinical outcomes and failure rates in knee OCA transplantatio...

Today, we’re kicking off a special series of episodes to recap the new research presented at the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons Annual Meeting, our largest orthopaedic conference. This year, over 20,000 orthopedic professionals gathered at the AAOS meeting in San Francisco to take part. The educational program was comprised of instructional course lectures, video theater, live surgeries,...

Our latest segment addition - “Ask The Sports Docs” - Drs. Logan & Bassett answer listeners' most pressing orthopaedic & sports medicine questions, giving  insight to their opinions and expertise on these topics.  On this episode, The Sports Docs will touch on the treatment of various types of meniscus tears - when to repair vs resect vs manage the injury with PT and how surgeons dete...

Today we’re talking about medial meniscus posterior root tears and will be reviewing an article from AJSM last month titled “ Medial Meniscus Posterior Root Tears Lead to Changes in Joint Contact Mechanics at Low Flexion Angles During Simulated Gait .” This study was performed by Dr. Sabrina Strickland and her team at HSS. We will also reference an older article from the January 2020 issue of AJSM...

In this episode, we’re going to continue our discussion with Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt and focus on the rehab of different stabilization surgeries, including arthroscopic Bankart repair, Bankart with the addition of a remplissage procedure, and Latarjet reconstruction. We then wrap up with a discussion on return to play and an important conversation on the psychological aspects of recovery. Our conversa...

On today’s episode we’re focusing on post-op rehab after shoulder stabilization surgery with Dr. Yoni Rosenblatt, a physical therapist at True Sports PT in Baltimore, Maryland. We have some great articles for you that contribute well to our conversation on shoulder instability rehabilitation. As always, links to all of the papers that we discuss on this show can be found on our podcast website – w...

Welcome back to The Sports Docs Podcast!  In this episode, we’re going to continue our discussion with Dr. Andrea Spiker and focus on open surgical treatment for hip preservation, then wrap up with a discussion on post-op rehab and return to play. Our conversation picks back up with an article from the September 2017 issue of AJSM titled “ Early Functional Outcomes of Periacetabular Osteotomy Afte...

On today’s episode we’re focusing on hip preservation with Dr. Andrea Spiker. We have some great articles for you that contribute well to our conversation on femoroacetabular impingement or “FAI”, hip dysplasia and the arthroscopic and open surgical treatments for these conditions. As always, links to all of the papers that we discuss on this show can be found on our podcast website – www.thesport...

Happy New Year from The Sports Docs Podcast! 🎆 As we reflect on an incredible year of growth for our podcast, we’d like to take a moment to thank our amazing listeners, guests and supporters for making this podcast such a success! 🫶🏻 Our podcast has been downloaded in over 60 countries, is in the top 25% of @buzzsprout podcasts and is ranked in the top sports medicine podcasts 📈🎙️ We are very...

Happy New Year from The Sports Docs Podcast! 🎆 As we reflect on an incredible year of growth for our podcast, we’d like to take a moment to thank our amazing listeners, guests and supporters for making this podcast such a success! Our podcast has been downloaded in over 60 countries, is in the top 25% of @buzzsprout podcasts and is ranked in the top sports medicine podcasts 📈🎙️ We are very excit...

Our latest segment addition - “Ask The Sports Docs” - Drs. Logan & Bassett answer listeners' most pressing orthopaedic & sports medicine questions, giving  insight to their opinions and expertise on these topics.  On this episode, The Sports Docs will touch on the use of stem cells in sports medicine, our thoughts on open kinetic chain (OKC) exercise after knee surgery, and when ACL r...

Welcome to another episode of the Injury Report! Today, we’re focusing on core muscle injuries in the NFL, also known as “sports hernias”, most recently plaguing lead wide receiver for the Jaguars Christian Kirk. But this injury is quite common in the NFL affecting players from DeSean Jackson, Kareem Hunt, OBJ, Mike Evans, JJ Watt, Adrian Peterson to name a few.  So, it’s about time that we cover...

We return today with Dr. Brett Owens to shift our discussion of MCL tears on to the treatment of isolated and combined MCL injuries, then wrap up with a discussion on safe return to play. Our conversation picks back up with a level 1 prospective multicenter RCT from the March 2022 issue of AJSM titled “ Comparative Outcomes Occur After Superficial Medial Collateral Ligament Augmented Repair vs. Re...

On today’s episode we’re focusing on medial collateral ligament injuries with Dr. Brett Owens. We’ll start off our discussion today with an article authored by our guest, Dr. Brett Owens, titled “ The Epidemiology of Medial Collateral Ligament Sprains in Young Athletes ” from the 2014 issue of AJSM. The authors performed a longitudinal cohort study of US military cadets and found that MCL injuries...

On this episode, we’re going to continue our discussion with Dr. William Bugbee and focus on OCA surgical technique and then discuss clinical outcomes including return to sports. Our conversation picks back up with a recent paper from the July issue of Cartilage this year titled “ Young Age and Concomitant or Prior Bony Realignment Procedures are Associated with Decreased Risk of Failure of Osteoc...