Start Of Football Season Means Sports Medicine Physicians Should Brace Themselves For Injuries

Football Fever is upon the nation once again. The soaring of the pigskin signals the start of the “busy” season for cheerleaders, marching bands, and inevitably, sports medicine physicians.”After only a few days of practice at UB we’ve had three players with ACL injuries, a medial collateral ligament tear, a dislocated shoulder and a dislocated elbow,” said Marc Fineberg, M.D., chief of sports medicine in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine and Biomedical Sciences. [click link for full article]

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Filed under: Sports Medicine / Fitness on September 4th, 2007