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...
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...
Reversing a Trend Among Young Baseball Players
Across America a majority of Tommy John elbow surgeries – also known as ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) reconstruction procedures – are being performed on teenagers. According to an American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine report (2007 to 2011), nearly 57...
Pain and No Gain: Overuse Sports Injuries in Young Adults
In the locker rooms and on the field—that’s where you’ll find the sports medicine experts from the Chicago Center for Orthopedics (CCO) at Weiss. As the exclusive medical provider for the Chicago Sport & Social Club, and several professional, collegiate, and high...