College Bound and Confident in Returning to the Football Field
With many kids heading starting school this week and next, here’s a look at one of our favorite back-to-school stories: the tale of a high school football star heading to the University of Indianapolis this month on scholarship. But his road to university wasn’t an...
Urban Planner Designs a New Life Following Complex Knee Surgery
“I’m a person who is not limited in what I want to do,” said Ondrea Tye, 63, a City of Los Angeles Urban Planner. But when a condition called arthrofibrosis afflicted her knee, she experienced some limitations. “My quality of life suffered. I could no longer do much...
Young father disabled by arthrofibrosis returns to an active life with his family
Eric Hicks, 31, of Cedar Lake, Indiana was tired of the pain and surgeries over a decade’s time. A knee injury while playing high school football started him on a course that kept getting worse. Hicks underwent 8 surgeries since age 18 – mostly arthroscopic procedures...
Treating the High Number of Female Athletes with ACL Knee Injuries & Preventing Future Tears
Chicago teenager Emma Falk just finished playing her spring high school softball season successfully after putting the game on hold this past fall. She had been recovering from an increasingly common knee injury among athletic girls her age – an anterior cruciate...