Eagles tight end Zach Ertz sustained an injury to his ribs in the game against the Browns in Week 1.  Last Thursday, Coach Pederson stated Ertz has a seven-millimeter displacement of his first rib and will sit out tonight’s game against the Bears...

Upper body injury is commonly reported in NHL injury reports.  What does that mean?  Is it a shoulder injury?  Something more specific such as an AC joint or labrum...

Sunday while the celebrations for the Mexico win over Jamaica in this year’s CONCACAF Gold Cup final at Lincoln Financial Field continued into the night, the work of the venue medical staff wasn’t quite done yet...

After Sunday’s Eagles win against Texas where Nick Foles sustained an injury to his left shoulder, everyone has been discussing the odds of whether he will be able to return to play this season and whether he will need to undergo surgery to repair the damage...

We all hear how ACL injuries are season-ending for professional athletes. But what if an athlete could return to sports without ACL surgery?...

On Monday the Phillies learned that first baseman Ryan Howard will miss the next 6-8 weeks with a torn meniscus. While numerous concerns arise as a result of this injury—the Phillies owe the increasingly injury-prone slugger $75 million...

After months of speculation littered with countless doctor’s visits, setbacks (and hairstyles), the Sixers confirmed this week what we've all suspected—Andrew Bynum’s 2012-13 season is over before it even started...

Arthritis is the biggest challenge in orthopaedics. But what is it and how can we treat it? By definition, arthritis means joint inflammation: arth=joint, itis= inflammation. Arthritis is simply damage to the joint surface cartilage and the adjacent structures...

It’s all over the media—a new knee ligament discovered by researchers in Belgium. Dr. Steven Claes and Dr. Johan Bellemans’ press release states that they “discovered a previously unknown ligament in the human knee...

We often hear of athletes tearing their knee cartilage—the common term for the meniscus. In an athlete, a torn meniscus most often happens from a twisting or rotating injury or getting hit on the side of the knee as might occur in a soccer or basketball game...

We all have heard someone talk about their ‘trick knee’ they hurt in high school football, or the stories of players losing their college scholarship due to a knee injury. So how does Adrian Peterson return in less than a year and just miss the NFL rushing record?...