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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.
Dr. Colvin discusses platelet rich plasma
Platelet-rich plasma therapy has been used in medicine for years, according to Dr. Alexis Chiang Colvin, sports medicine specialist at the Department of Orthopedic Surgery at Mount Sinai School of Medicine. Essentially a patient’s blood is drawn and placed in a centrifuge that produces concentrated platelets containing growth factors which accelerate tissue repair and regeneration. Those platelets are then injected into the patient.
Dr. Colvin talks about children’s injuries in physical education classes
Dr. Colvin talks about children’s injuries in physical education classes .
Dr. Colvin talks to the Wall Street Journal about older people running in marathons.
Like any aging runner, Ms. Johnson faces enormous obstacles. Dr. Alexis Chiang Colvin, a sports-medicine expert at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, said aging affects every system the body uses in long-distance running.
Dr. Colvin discusses concussions on MSNBC
Another Pittsburgh study of 234 soccer players found that two weeks after their concussion, female players scored worse on some brain-function tests than similarly injured males. Dr. Alexis Chiang Colvin found size differences didn’t explain the discrepancy. She couldn’t find an alternate explanation, and while the gender question is explored, urges coaches and athletes to be aware that female players may need a little extra time to recover.
