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High School Football Players and ACL Tears: Avoiding Serious Damage Football is an intense sport that may injure players who don’t take the time to condition themselves properly. ACL tears are one of the most serious of these injuries. Parents of football players need to know how to avoid these problems and how surgery can…
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Start Moving: Why Inactivity Is Hard on Your Knees Do you spend a lot of time sitting? Maybe you work at an office where most of your time is at your desk, or maybe when you’re at home, you prefer to rest on the couch instead of being on your feet. Many people live a…
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ACL Injuries and Children : What Parents Need to Know Most professional athletes know the risk of an ACL tear and how fast and unexpected mishaps can end their careers. Of course, professional athletes are not the only ones who find themselves sidelined. Many children and teenagers also experience this potentially devastating injury. Here is…
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Blood Flow-Restriction Training for Lower Extremity Muscle Weakness due to Knee Pathology: A Systematic Review Sports Health, 2018 Sue Barber-Westin, BS and Frank R. Noyes, MD In patients with chronic arthritis or recovering from major operations such as Anterior Cruciate Ligament Reconstruction (ACLR), lower extremity muscle weakness is common and often difficult to overcome. Resistance…
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How to Prevent Knee Injuries When Skiing Winter is on its way, and if you love to ski, then you may be eagerly awaiting that first big snowfall that signals the start of the ski season in your area. Whether you are an experienced skier or a novice, you need to be aware of knee…
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Prevent ACL Tears to Keep Your Soccer Career Strong Soccer players move and exercise a lot during a game, actions that could cause severe physical injuries. For example, a large number of soccer players suffer debilitating injuries to the anterior cruciate ligament that can throw their career for a loop. Therefore, lifelong soccer players need…
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Frank R Noyes MD has been invited to give the KEYNOTE ADDRESS at the international 2019 PUNE KNEE COURSE in India which is attended by more than 1000 orthopedic surgeons from India, Asia and the Middle East. Dr Noyes will present lectures on the treatment of knee disorders and specialized surgical procedures that he and…
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Dr. Palmer will present research titled “Abnormal Lachman and Pivot-Shift Translations After ACL Reconstruction Affected by Graft Conditioning Protocols: A Robotic Study of Three ACL Graft Constructs” at the 60thAnnual Meeting of the Society of Military Orthopaedic Surgeons in Keystone, CO on December 12th. This exciting research is the first to our knowledge that recommends…
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Our newest robotic study, titled “Two Different Knee Rotational Instabilities Occur With Anterior Cruciate Ligament and Anterolateral Ligament Injuries: A Robotic Study on Anterior Cruciate Ligament and Extra-articular Reconstructions in Restoring Rotational Stability,” determined the effect of two different extra-articular reconstructions on controlling knee motions after ACL reconstruction. The anterolateral ligament and iliotibial band have…
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Biomedical Engineer and Noyes Knee Institute Biomechanical Researcher Lauren Huser presented the 2018 Advancements in Robotics Research at the 2ndannual Frank R. Noyes, MD and JoAnne Noyes, BS, RN Endowed Eminent Visiting Scholar in Sports Medicine and Bioengineering Lecture on August 18that the University of Cincinnati College of Medicine. Updates on continuing research projects and…
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