Investigators from the Division of Emergency Medicine, Sports Medicine, and Department of Pediatrics, Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, PA, and Sports Medicine, Somerset, NJ, performed a retrospective cohort study of 247 patients ages 5-18 years with concussion referred from July 2010 to Dec 2011; 81% of patients showed a vestibular abnormality on initial clinical examination.

BACKGROUND Amniotic membrane (AM)-derived products have been successfully used in ophthalmology, plastic surgery, and wound care, but little is known about their potential applications in orthopaedic sports medicine. PURPOSE To provide an updated review of the basic science and preclinical and clinical data supporting the use of AM-derived products and to review their current applications in ...

Br J Sports Med December 2010 Vol 44 No 16 1135 Society for Sports Medicine and other societies. These guidelines state that one route to competency is through a residency or fellowship that provides ‘structured MSK US training’. With interest in MSK US, high among sports medicine physicians, many sports medicine fellowship programs have been working hard to provide a curriculum which will resu...

From Vanderbilt Sports Medicine, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville (K.P.S.); and the Department of Orthopedic Surgery, Washington University School of Medicine at Barnes–Jewish Hospital, St. Louis (R.W.W.). Address reprint requests to Dr. Spindler at Vanderbilt Sports Medicine, 4200 Medical Center E., South Tower, 1215 21st Ave. S., Nashville, TN 37232-8774, or at kurt.spindler@ v...

Sports Medicine Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran Sport and Exercise Medicine Department, Shahid Beheshti University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Iran Iran Football Medical Assessment and Rehabilitation Center, Tehran, IR Iran Corresponding author: Bahar Hassanmirzaei, Sports Medicine Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences, Tehran, IR Ira...

How did you first become interested in sports medicine? I grew up in a time before the existence of television, computers, and mobile phones. Children and adolescents had to occupy themselves with leisure time activities of their own choice and without the guidance of their parents. When I was very young I had the privilege of growing up in a small town in which participating in sport was the o...

OBJECTIVES To describe the sociodemographic profile of sports injury patients who attend sports medicine clinics for treatment and to describe their reasons for choosing to attend such clinics. METHOD Data were collected as part of a fully audited injury surveillance system implemented within sports medicine clinics. The study was conducted within five allied multidisciplinary sports medicine...