Category Archives: Sports Medicine

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...

While female gymnasts often face injuries to their lower limbs, including their ankles, legs, and hips, injuries to their arms, wrists, and hands are on the rise. In fact, studies have shown that adolescent gymnasts are developing injuries rarely e...

Dead leg, Charley horse, and quadriceps contusions – these are just a few of the alternative names for corked thighs, a very common injury in contact sports. The injury is usually the result of being kneed by another person during a tackle or the l...

Healthpointe is proud to welcome fellowship trained Surgeon, Dr. Michael Darren Marger, M.D., MPH into their growing multidisciplinary team of physicians and specialists. Dr. Marger is board-certified in Orthopaedic Surgery and specializes in Sport...