Sports Medicine
Shoulder Impingement: What It Is and How to Fix It
Just above your rotator cuff, you have a fluid-filled sac called a bursa. The job of the bursa is to provide a cushion between tendons and bones. Bursa can become inflamed which can cause pain.
Read More5 Neck and Shoulder Stretches To help reduce soreness
Finding yourself grabbing your neck and shoulders after a long day at work? Try these neck and shoulder stretches physical therapist-approved stretches.
Read MoreWhat You Probably Don’t Know About Orthobiologics
Orthobiologics -- which you may hear referred to as biologics, cell-based therapy, regenerative medicine or stem cell therapy -- are derived from substances that naturally exist in the body.
Read MoreStretches to Prevent Hamstring Injuries
Learn how to prevent hamstring injuries with these stretches from a Physical Therapist
Read MoreWorld Champion Power Lifter Calls Total Hip Replacement a "Miracle" Hitting the Gym Just Weeks After Surgery
Learn how a power-lifter has built his fitness back up after a total hip replacement.
Read MoreHow Aric Almirola Won at Talladega a Year and a Half after Breaking His Back
Aric Almirola won the 1000Bulbs.com 500 at Talladega Superspeedway on Sunday, October 14, 2018 in the No. 10 Smithfield Ford for Stewart-Haas Racing, marking his second-career Monster Energy NASCAR Cup Series victory. For Almirola, it was a sweet taste of success after a nearly-devastating injury in a wreck at Kansas Speedway in 2017 when he suffered a compression fracture to his T5 vertebra.
Read MorePhysicals for College Athletes: A Q&A with Physical Therapist Matt Erbe
OrthoCarolina, helping to keep your favorite team on the field.
Read MoreAn Interview with Dr. Pat Connor - the Carolina Panthers Head Team Physician
The commotion and action on the sidelines on any given Carolina Panthers game day can make it difficult to spot Dr. Pat Connor, but he’s there.
Read MoreOC on the Sidelines – How one Physician Assistant Keeps High School Athletes in the Game
If you’ve been to a local high school sports event, you may have seen OrthoCarolina staff on the sidelines. We learn from one PA how they keep athletes safe during competition.
Read MoreRunning Cadence Counts
One of the joys of running is the ability to throw on your running shoes, hit the road and let your mind relax.
Read MoreWhat is patellofemoral pain syndrome?
Patellofemoral pain syndrome is pain in the front of the knee. It frequently occurs in teenagers, manual laborers, and athletes.
Read MoreWhat is a stress fracture?
Stress fractures are common injuries for runners with pain starting as they begin to run and progressively becoming more painful and localized.
Read MoreFrom Two ACL Tears to West Point - Patient Caroline Horne
Two ACL tears in less than a year would be difficult to come back from for most. But with hard work and a positive attitude, Charlottean Caroline Horne didn't just recover from her two ACL tears - she thrived. Learn more about how Caroline went from double injury to successful West Point student with the help of OrthoCarolina's medical team.
Read MoreNASCAR's Aric Almirola: Injury Felt Like Twisting Knife In Back
Aric Almirola knew immediately following his horrendous crash at Kansas Speedway that he had a spinal injury, but the NASCAR driver said Friday he didn’t realize the severity of his broken back until he talked with doctors and learned he would be sidelined for eight to twelve weeks.
Read MoreAthlete Learns a Focus on Self-Care and Mindfulness Pave the Road to Recovery
Training for a marathon, Erin Lingle was used to pushing through the pain, but a hip surgery re-centered her focus.
Read MoreA Doctor’s Guide to Preventing ACL Injuries
As doctors, a high percentage of the patients we care for with anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) issues sustain their injuries from movements that occur when the body abruptly decelerates or changes direction.
Read MoreHow Ultrasound-Guided Injections Can Help Treat Pain
Cortisone injections can provide much needed relief for ongoing and chronic pain. Ultrasound machines have helped us improve this accuracy by allowing us to guide the injection needle to a more exact location under direct visualization.
Read MoreHow to Know If You Might Have a Rotator Cuff Issue
Rotator cuff issues are a common culprit of shoulder pain. Four muscles make up the rotator cuff and keep the head of the upper arm bone in its socket, enabling it to work. Those muscles turn into tendons that attach near the head, which is the ball of your shoulder, a ball-and-socket joint.
Read MoreA Physician Talks PRP: Using Your Body’s Own Platelets to Heal Injury
Chronic pain can keep your body hurting for weeks, months, or even years at a time, impacting your day-to-day life and even your work and time with family. It can be a result of an injury, other health issue, or there may be no apparent reason for the pain. Platelet-rich plasma (PRP) therapy is one of the newest ways to treat pain. PRP uses a highly concentrated solution of your body’s own platelets to accelerate the natural healing of damaged tissue.
Read MoreOne of the Most Common Knee Injuries: The ABCs of the ACL
The anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) is a vital stabilizing structure within the knee. The ACL helps to control rotation and translation with a knee that is abruptly changing direction or speed. As a result, it is commonly injured in athletes who participate in sports with cutting, pivoting, jumping, and quick running.
Read MoreExercise Like an NFL Athlete
Being an NFL athlete is no easy feat. Those guys are constantly training, but not all NFL players focus on the same areas. It largely depends on the position they play.
Read MoreWhat’s the Latest Treatment for Rotator Cuff Injuries?
Rotator cuff tendon tears affect more than four million people annually in the U.S. and are the most common source of shoulder pain and disability. Dr. Patrick Connor of the OrthoCarolina Sports Medicine Center, team physician to the Carolina Panthers, is pioneering the use of a breakthrough technology designed as a new option for millions of people suffering from rotator cuff tendon tears in the shoulder joint.
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