Category Archives: Sports Medicine Articles

Healthpointe’s team of hip specialists is now treating hip injuries at all of their clinics. Specialties include hip dislocations, fractures, bursitis, sprains/strains, and other injuries or disorders. For athletes with hip injuries, Healthpoint...

Among baseball players, wrist pain is one of the most common injuries aside from shoulder and arm injuries. This is because the wrists are in constant torque during play and practice, often in all different directions and in unnatural ways. The...

While diving may appear as a relatively safe sport – divers do not engage in contact sports or put their bodies through physically demanding movements – this is not so. Divers are still prone to injuries when diving off the board, said injuries of...

On March 5, 2015, Portland Trail Blazers announced that shooting guard Wesley Matthews is out for the season with a torn Achilles tendon in his left leg. This injury occurred while the Trail Blazers were competing against Dallas, and was confirmed...

Shin splints are more common among female professional dancers than previously thought, mainly because of their mental ability to overlook the pain in favour of performance. But these injuries should neither be dismissed nor overlooked because of t...

Baseball players, especially pitchers, subject their elbows to extremely high stress particularly on overhand throws. When overhand throws are repeated many times over practice sessions and competitive games, the elbow can suffer from serious overu...

Despite its name, tennis elbow can also affect other athletes like baseball players as well as non-athletes; the injury can also be the result of common arm motions, such as painting, cutting meat, and driving screws. The name, however, comes from...

Professional tennis players know the importance of keeping it all in the wrist, which means using the wrist in controlled movement instead of using arm strength. But there will be instances when the wrist will still be subjected to tennis injuries,...

Ballet dancers are graceful and beautiful performers, but theirs is a dangerous profession, considering the frequency and severity of ballet injuries that they suffer during the span of their careers. One of the most common causes of their injuries...

From all appearances, wrestlers are involved in one of the most physically intense sports on both the amateur and professional levels. While good technique, training and safety gear will reduce the risks of wrestling injuries, these things do not c...