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1. The new unit has nine beds and is dedicated to hip and knee joint replacement.

2. The program is the first of its kind in the Kokomo area.

3. The health organization implemented several value-based initiatives into the new program covering the whole spectrum of care.

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Her other clinical interests include the treatment of multi-ligament knee injuries, knee meniscus tears, shoulder instability and labral tears. Outside of her clinical practice, she serves as an assistant professor of orthopedic surgery at Thomas Jefferson University in Philadelphia. She is a fellow of American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, Arthroscopy Association of North America and Ruth Jackson Orthopaedic Society.

Dr. Hammoud earned her medical degree at Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine in Baltimore. She went on to complete an orthopedic surgery residency at New York City-based Hospital for Special Surgery and a sports medicine fellowship at Boston-based Massachusetts General Hospital.

Researchers from the University of Stirling have explored the true impact of heading a football, identifying small but significant changes in brain function immediately after routine heading practice.

The study from Scotland's University for Sporting Excellence published in EBioMedicine is the first to detect direct changes in the brain after players are exposed to everyday head impacts, as opposed to clinical brain injuries like concussion.

A group of football players headed a ball 20 times, fired from a machine designed to simulate the pace and power of a corner kick.

Researchers, it is hoped, will one day find a miracle cure for all kinds of diseases. Yet over and over again it has been shown that even if it takes a little more effort than swallowing a little pill, exercise is an excellent preventive and curative treatment for many diseases. A new study, whose preliminary results will be presented at the Canadian Cardiovascular Congress and soon be published in the Journal of Cardiopulmonary Rehabilitation and Prevention, also supports this finding. The study shows that even low physical fitness, up to 20% below the average for healthy people, is sufficient to produce a preventive effect on most of the risk factors that affect people with cardiovascular disease.

After just one season, youth football players with greater head impact exposure showed changes to white matter of the brain.

It is estimated that around 30 million children and adolescents in the United States take part in some form of sports.

While such participation has clear health benefits, the risks cannot be overlooked; each year in the U.S.

The time of day determines a muscle's energy efficiency and metabolic response.

Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered circadian clocks in muscle tissue that control the muscle's metabolic response and energy efficiency depending on the time of day.

The finding in mice sheds light on the time-of-day differences in muscle's ability to adapt to exercise and use oxygen for energy. Muscle cells are more efficient during an organism's normal waking hours, the study found.

All cells in the body, including those in muscle, contain a clock that regulates how cells adapt to changes in the environment and activity across the 24-hour day.

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1. Dr. Landry said adolescents are prone to concussions at a higher rate than their matured counterparts. Adolescent females are at a higher risk than males.

2. Dr. Landry has been a frequent presenter on concussion risks throughout his career.

3. Dr. Landry is advocating for change in football, urging for a strict enforcement of head-to-head tackling rules.

4. He then lauded the NFL and its Heads Up Football program as a step in the right direction.

Every year, approximately 2 million people in Europe and the United States are diagnosed with damage to knee joints arising from injuries or accidents.

However, the authors point out that while the results of their phase I study are promising and show the approach is feasible and safe, there is still a long way to go before such a procedure can be approved for routine use with patients.

Move over milk, soy protein early in life might be what's needed for strong, healthy bones in adulthood. New research, published online in The FASEB Journal, reports that early dietary nutrition heavy in soy protein isolate can protect against serious bone loss during adulthood. This also is the first time that scientists have used an animal model to show concrete evidence of a protective effect of an early-life soy protein isolate diet on adult bone loss.

"Appropriate early-life nutrition can optimize peak bone mass," said Jin-Ran Chen, M.D., Ph.D., a researcher involved in the work from the Skeletal Development Laboratory at Arkansas Children's Nutrition Center at the University of Arkansas for Medical Sciences in Little Rock, Arkansas.