East Suburban Sports Medicine Center, Ltd.

12.17.2008

Holiday Gift Wrapping Ergonomics

10.10.2008

Gatorade Sports Science Exchange: Optimal Recovery for Wrestlers.

07.31.2008
FR Beat the Heat 5K Run/Walk

The Franklin Regional Soccer Boosters will once again be staging the Beat the Heat 5K in Murrysville. The race is on Saturday, August 16th, and it begins and ends at Sloan Elementary School on Sardis Road. Registration Form

07.29.2008

Foods and Fluids for Football - Gatorade Sports Science Institute

07.19.2008
2nd Annual Stampede in the Park

Congratulations to Joe Ionta and the Plum Racing Mustangs for putting on a wonderful race. We are proud to be a sponsor for the second consecutive year! It was beautiful day in Boyce Park and the race coordinators and support staff did a magnificent job! Pictured below is John Bonaroti with race co-coordinators Linda and Joe Ionta. The link takes you to additional photos of the race festivities.

Click for more photos.

07.04.2008
Congratulations to our Boston Marathoner!

Congratulations to Lisa Bernardi for her excellent performance in this year's Boston Marathon. She finished strong in a time of 3:49. The photo below shows her intense focus during the race, then afterwards in a more relaxed pose sporting her medal at the awards ceremony. Lisa's advise to all runners is "you've got to stretch." Way to go Lisa - keep it up!

Lisa Bernardi running

07.01.2008
John H. Lindblad Memorial Award Winner

Congratulations to Anthony Bowser of Plum High School for being the 10th recipient of the John H. Lindblad Memorial Award. We established this award in 1998 in memory of Dr. Lindblad, who unselfishly dedicated himself to the student-athletes at Plum and who was instrumental in developing the team physician - athletic trainer model for sports medicine care that is still working today!

Anthony played football, basketball and track for Plum HS. He will be attending Bethany College in the fall majoring in education, and he has aspirations to go on to graduate school in physical therapy. Anthony will play soccer at Bethany College. Congratulations and best wishes for continued success.

Anthony is pictured below receiving the award from Ryan Kesterholt, ATC, an employee of ESSMC and the Head Athletic Trainer at Plum HS.

John H. Lindblad Memorial Award Winner

06.30.2008
Marathon Sponsorship helps Leukemia Research

Congratulations to Megan McShea who competed in the Anchorage Midnight Marathon and finished in a time of 4:17. We commend Megan's efforts to raise over $6500 for leukemia research, and we are proud to have done our part in support. Click for photos.

06.30.2008
Osteoarthritis FAQ's

Osteoarthritis is more and more prevalent these days. While you may worry that exercising could harm your joints and cause more pain, research shows that people with arthritis can and should exercise. In fact, exercise is considered to be the most effective non-drug treatment for reducing pain and improving movement in osteoarthritis.

06.21.2008
Bone and Joint Series

Sara Tresco, DPT is shown below talking with a patient at the Bone and Joint Health Series talk presented by the AMD3 Foundation. The Foundation is a non-profit organization that sponsors and directs education, research and other related charitable activities in patient and family centered care and advancing the science of performance in health care. The Foundation's mission is to promote education and research in innovative technologies and to merge the art and science of performance to improve the delivery of health care.

Bone and Joint Talk

04.17.2008
17th Annual Student Athletic Trainer Workshop

East Suburban Sports Medicine Center is proud to present the 17th Annual Student Athletic Trainer Workshop. This workshop will be held on July 29, 30 and 31, 2008 starting at 9:00 a.m. and ending approximately 3:00 p.m. each day. All sessions will be held at Penn-Trafford High School. All material is geared to the high school student interested in pursuing a health-related profession such as physical therapy, athletic training or nursing. This year we have continued sessions on MRSA, the PIAA weight loss program and following last year's model of more hands-on therapy techniques and a Q&A period with the workshop staff.

Click here for the registration flyer.

04.17.2008
Golf Puts High Stress on Replacement Knees

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By Anthony J. Brown, MD

NEW YORK (Reuters Health) Mar 06 - Findings from the first study ever to measure forces inside the knees of living humans indicate that swinging a golf club, considered a low impact activity, places as much stress on artificial knee joints as does jogging or tennis.

By contrast, exercising on a stationary bicycle generated relatively little force on the knee, even lower than walking on a treadmill. This information, which only became available after study co-author Dr. Clifford W. Colwell developed a technology for measuring knee forces in vivo, could help clinicians decide which recreational activities are suitable for knee arthroplasty patients.

"Previously, knee forces could only be measured in cadaver specimens or estimated using mathematical models," Dr. Darryl D. D'Lima, primary author of the study, told Reuters Health. These methods may not provide a true reflection of the forces at work, he added. For instance, in the case of golf, mathematical modeling had markedly underestimated the forces generated.

So why is golf so stressful on the knees, particularly the leading knee -- the left knee of a right-handed golfer? "We believe this to be due to inertial forces transferred from the upper body and the twisting that takes place at the knee during the swing," according to Dr. D'Lima, director of an orthopedic research laboratory at the Scripps Clinic in La Jolla, California.

The findings, presented Thursday at the annual meeting of the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgeons in San Francisco, are based on a study of four patients who underwent total knee arthroplasty using artificial joints capable of measuring knee forces.

Jogging, tennis, and golf produced the greatest force on the knees. Walking on level ground produced less force than these activities and walking on a treadmill generated even lower force. Biking produced the lowest force.

"Biking has been recommended as a safer exercise than jogging for patients with knee pathology or prosthetic replacements. Our data support this recommendation," Dr. D'Lima said.

Knee arthroplasty patients should not necessarily stop playing golf, tennis, or jogging, Dr. D'Lima advised, but they should considering modifying the activities so they cause less strain on the knees.

As for future research, he said his team is currently "collecting tremendous amounts of (knee force) data over several activities and conditions, such as skiing, rehabilitation, exercise, and recreational equipment. We are also investigating the effect of orthotics and braces on knee joint forces."

03.27.2008
Injury Prevention Seminar
Matt Gatesman, MPT, ATC will be speaking at the Plum Library on Wednesday April 16th at 7:00 PM presenting information on injury prevention for spring activities. Click here to view the article that appeared in the Tribune-Review on 3/27/08.

02.27.2008
US Lacrosse - Safety in the Game (pdf)

01.04.2008
Congratulations to all 77 patients who gallantly participated in the Patient Attendance Contest which occurred over the Christmas and New Year’s holidays. That is a great number of patients who attended all of their scheduled sessions for three consecutive weeks! We recognize your commitment and trust that the consistency of your treatment has helped achieve super results.

The winner (a North Huntingdon office patient) has received a $100 gift card to the business of his choice.