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Dr. Colvin discusses concussion management in NFL players
“It’ll be up to the doctor evaluating him,” said Dr. Alexis Colvin, an orthopedic surgeon in sports medicine and expert in concussions at New York’s Mount Sinai Medical Center. “If he meets all the criteria, he can play. The thing is, it’s such an evolving field now. Under the old rules, it’d be ‘if he lost consciousness for this amount of minutes, he misses this amount of time.’ It’s not cut-and-dry like that anymore.”
Dr. Colvin’s perspective on Sidney Rice’ injury
Colvin’s expertise is sports medicine. Her clinical and research interests include surgical treatment of knee, shoulder and hip disorders. Dr. Colvin serves as a physician for the United States Tennis Association during the U.S. Open, providing orthopaedic care to elite players, and as served as a physician for the New York City Triathlon.
Dr. Colvin discusses Panthers Jon Beason’s Surgery
“Even though it’s a relatively straightforward injury, there’s always potential that for him, for some reason, the tendon doesn’t heal as well. … It’s not like a cartilage defect in the knee or something where we know that down the road it’s going to cause problems. In general, people seem to recover pretty well from Achilles tendon repairs.”
Dr. Colvin talks about jumping roping for exercise
Jumping is also gentler and kinder, though. “You’re getting the most bang for your buck, because you’re working almost every part of your body, but there’s not the impact of running, because of the way the foot lands,” said Alexis Colvin, an assistant professor of sports medicine in the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery at Mount Sinai Medical Center in Manhattan.
Dr. Colvin comments on the orthopaedic implications of increasing the length of the NFL season
“Whenever you have a collision sport like football, it’s inevitable something’s going to happen because you are contacting other athletes at high impact,” said Dr. Alexis Chiang Colvin, an orthopedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine at New York’s Mount Sinai School of Medicine. “I don’t think it’s unusual that any of those injuries happened. But because they all clustered together in the same week, it did seem a little bit unusual.
