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Young athletes at greater risk for re-injury after ACL Surgery

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Las Vegas, NV - One in three young athletes who undergo ACL surgery experiences re-injury, according to research presented today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's (AOSSM) Specialty Day. The study examined the long term success of surgery for patients aged 18 years and younger.

"We examined survey data from 242 patients who underwent ACL reconstruction between 1993 and 1998," noted lead author Justin P. Roe, MBBS, FRACS, from North Sydney Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine Centre. "Of this group, 75, or 31% sustained a further injury after at least 15 years."

The study group consisted of 104 females and 138 males at a mean age of 16 years. A total of 168 (69%) reported returning to their pre-injury level of activity following surgery.

"Our study shows that young knees are more prone to re-injury than the adult population when compared to other research in this area - and is the first study to examine the incidence and risk factors for further ACL injury in a solely juvenile population over the long term," commented Roe. "While surgery still may be the best option for many ACL injuries, it brings to light the important factors physicians must consider when treating the younger population."

Rugby or soccer was reported as the sport of choice for 48% of the injured athletes participating in the study.

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The American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) is a world leader in sports medicine education, research, communication and fellowship, and includes national and international orthopaedic sports medicine leaders. The Society works closely with many other sports medicine specialists, including athletic trainers, physical therapists, family physicians, and others to improve the identification, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of sports injuries. AOSSM is also a founding partner of the STOP Sports Injuries campaign to prevent overuse and traumatic injuries in kids. For more information on AOSSM or the STOP Sports Injuries campaign, visit http://www.sportsmed.org or http://www.stopsportsinjuries.org

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Pain injections for hip arthroscopy patients may not predict surgical outcomes

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Las Vegas, NV - How best to treat and recover from complicated hip injuries is a growing field in orthopaedic medicine. While diagnostic hip injections are commonly performed for patients with labral tear to confirm the pain etiology, research presented today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine's (AOSSM) Specialty Day suggests that pain relief from this diagnostic injection may not predict better outcomes following arthroscopic hip surgery.

"Our study looked to assess if the amount of pain relief from a preoperative diagnostic intra-articular (IA) injection correlated with patient outcomes following surgery of an individual with femoracetabular impingement (FAI). However, our data indicated that the amount of pain relief from an IA injection is a poor predictor of short-term positive outcomes at our institution," said lead author, Aaron Krych, MD of the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, MN.

Krych and his team analyzed records of patients who were undergoing hip arthroscopy for FAI from 2007-2012. Pre-operative radiographs were reviewed along with degree of osteoarthritis. Ninety-six patients met the study's inclusion criteria, including 71 females and 25 males with an average age of 37.5 years that were followed prospectively. There was no significant difference in the outcome scores for individuals with greater than 50 percent pain relief compared to patients that had less than 50 percent pain relief on preoperative diagnostic injection. Even with an adjustment for chondral degeneration and arthritis, the difference in pain relief and outcomes was minimal.

"Looking at different ways to treat hip pain and improve patient selection for surgery is a critical part of orthopaedic medicine. Even though our study did not show any significant improvements in outcomes, it does highlight the need for future investigations of what might be increase success," said Krych. "While there are no current absolute indications for FAI surgery, we believe that careful evaluation of the patient and correlation of presenting symptoms, physical examination, and imaging findings are the most important factors in considering patients for surgery."

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The American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM) is a world leader in sports medicine education, research, communication and fellowship, and includes national and international orthopaedic sports medicine leaders. The Society works closely with many other sports medicine specialists, including athletic trainers, physical therapists, family physicians, and others to improve the identification, prevention, treatment, and rehabilitation of sports injuries. AOSSM is also a founding partner of the STOP Sports Injuries campaign to prevent overuse and traumatic injuries in kids. For more information on AOSSM or the STOP Sports Injuries campaign, visit http://www.sportsmed.org or http://www.stopsportsinjuries.org

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Guest opinion: Medical school debate misses bigger picture – Sat, 28 Mar 2015 PST

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The Spokane medical school debate is peaking as Washington State University has successfully received the Legislatures support, pending Gov. Jay Inslees signing of the bill, to change a 1917 law that would give WSU the authority to create its own independently accredited medical school on the WSU Health Sciences Spokanecampus.

Simultaneously, the University of Washington School of Medicine is asking the Legislature that the Spokane-based, four-year WWAMI medical school program, which teaches students from Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho, be expanded without negatively impacting the creation of WSUs new medical school. The debate about how

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The Spokane medical school debate is peaking as Washington State University has successfully received the Legislatures support, pending Gov. Jay Inslees signing of the bill, to change a 1917 law that would give WSU the authority to create its own independently accredited medical school on the WSU Health Sciences Spokanecampus.

Simultaneously, the University of Washington School of Medicine is asking the Legislature that the Spokane-based, four-year WWAMI medical school program, which teaches students from Washington, Wyoming, Alaska, Montana and Idaho, be expanded without negatively impacting the creation of WSUs new medical school. The debate about how medical education should be delivered in the state misses the big-picture opportunity for ourregion.

That opportunity is the advancement of a comprehensive vision for the growth of medical education, associated health and bioscience research, the spinoff of businesses from that research, and improved quality health care access in our community. As a top priority for Greater Spokane Incorporated, this vision with the capacity for being the single-largest economic development driver for our region has been over a decade in the making. In large part, this is because its built on one of the greater Spokane regions largest industries health care which currently generates more than $6 billion in economic impact. Realizing the full build-out of this transformational vision has the potential to generate sustained economic impact of more than $1.7 billion annually, and the creation of more than 9,000 new jobs in the region by2030.

The foundation of this vision is medical education, both four-year medical education and graduate medical education (residencies). The debate has centered on our states critical physician shortage, particularly the growing shortage of primary care physicians in the rural and underserved areas of Eastern Washington. The statistics shared by each university are compelling, and we applaud the Legislature for recognizing thischallenge.

Now, its time for the Legislature to support and fund each universitys expansion plans. The combined and complementary approaches in Spokane of the nationally recognized WWAMI four-year medical school and the creation of a new WSU medical school as part of WSUs health sciences-focused Spokane campus are the best long-term solutions to addressing this challenge in the region and thestate.

As a community, the larger opportunity is the potential to create a foundation for a vibrant and growing health care and bioscience industry economy around a pair of medical schools with strong university research programs. Whether the research is translated into promising medical advances or commercialized to grow the economy, the people of our region will benefit through better health care and betterjobs.

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Medical experts turn to high school associations, not lawmakers, to strengthen safety

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NEW YORK To toughen safety standards in youth sports, medical experts are turning away from lawmakers and toward high school sports associations to implement policies and procedures to prevent deaths and serious injuries.

The National Athletic Trainers' Association and the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine completed two days of meetings and programs with representatives from all 50 state high school athletic associations Friday at the NFL offices in Manhattan. The goal was to have decision-makers return to their states and push high schools to put into place recommendations on how best to handle potentially catastrophic medical conditions such as heat stroke, sudden cardiac arrest and head and neck injuries.

Some states, such as Arkansas, have passed laws requiring schools to meet certain standards, but Doug Casa, director of athletic training education at the University of Connecticut, said high school associations should be first to act because they have more flexibility to move quickly.

"Trying to get a state law passed, one, can take a long time but two, sometimes a lot of things get attached to the laws that weren't the original intention. Also, they're written by people who don't truly understand the nuances of a football practice or how sports work into the system of a school year. Those are nuances that the state high school association totally gets," Casa said.

In 2013, best practice recommendations were published in the Journal of Athletic Training, but many states are still lagging in implementation of those guidelines. They include having a full-time athletic trainer on staff, having automated external defibrillators in every school and accessible to all staff members, and having an emergency action plan for managing serious and potentially life threatening injuries. Funding is often cited as the reason schools, many of which are already struggling to make ends, meet fail to implement these recommendations.

According to the NATA and AMSSM, only 37 percent of high schools in the United States have full-time athletic trainers. Only 22 percent of states meet the recommendation that every school or organization that sponsors athletics develop an emergency action plan. Only 50 percent of states have met recommendations that all athletic trainers, coaches, administrators, school nurses and other staffers have access to an automated external defibrillator.

Casa said just 14 states meet the minimum best practices with regard to heat acclimatization, but the ones that have adopted them since 2011 have had no athlete deaths from heat stroke.

Casa cited Georgia, Arkansas, Texas, North Carolina and New Jersey as states that have been leaders in implementing the recommendations.

Jason Cates, a member of the executive committee of the Arkansas Athletic Trainers' Association who led reforms in Arkansas after a high school basketball player died of sudden cardiac arrest in 2008, said that while legislation can be help to move programs forward, it can also create problems with legal liability.

"At what point in time are we going to legislate ourselves out of sports?" he said. "I think in some states, in some instances (legislation) is the way to go, but my hope is people just get it.

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Kansas City University to open new medical school in Joplin

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KANSAS CITY, Mo. (AP) - Kansas City University of Medicine and Biosciences has announced plans to develop a medical school in Joplin.

The Joplin Globe (http://bit.ly/1HRqSK2 ) reports that the project announced Thursday will use a 150,000-square-foot building formerly occupied by Mercy Hospital Joplin. The university plans to enroll 150 students per year in its osteopathic program, with the first class set to begin in 2017.

Mercy Hospital Joplin plans to donate the land and component hospital once it receives approval from the Vatican.

The Joplin Regional Medical School Alliance has pledged $30 million to help develop the new medical school. According to a committee chairman, about half of those funds have been raised and there are plans increase the fundraising campaign to gather the rest of the money.

Paula Baker, president and chief executive officer of Freeman Health System, said the group has pledged a multimillion dollar donation to the new school.

Its transformative in terms of medical care for our region, she said. It will attract students who will come to medical school; theyll get to know this area and settle down here. The fact that this will attract new physicians to the area is extremely beneficial for everyone concerned.

Gary Pulsipher, president of Mercy Hospital Joplin, said the new school will help the city, which has had a difficult time recruiting physicians.

According to the university, this will be the first new medical school location to open in Missouri in 44 years. The announcement was made at the investiture of Dr. Marc B. Hahn as that schools 14th president.

The expansion of KCU to an additional location marks a significant moment for our university and an opportunity to help address the rural health care needs for Missouri and the region, Hahn said in a statement. As the second leading educator of physicians for Missouri and Kansas, and with nearly 40 percent of our graduates practicing medicine in rural areas, this was a logical decision for us.

Missouri Southern State University has had ties to Kansas City University, and officials say they support a new satellite campus in Joplin.

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Medical Experts Look Beyond Law to Make Youth Sports Safer

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To toughen safety standards in youth sports, medical experts are turning away from lawmakers and toward high school sports associations to implement policies and procedures to prevent deaths and serious injuries.

The National Athletic Trainers' Association and the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine completed two days of meetings and programs with representatives from all 50 state high school athletic associations Friday at the NFL offices in Manhattan. The goal was to have decision-makers return to their states and push high schools to put into place recommendations on how best to handle potentially catastrophic medical conditions such as heat stroke, sudden cardiac arrest and head and neck injuries.

Some states, such as Arkansas, have passed laws requiring schools to meet certain standards, but Doug Casa, director of athletic training education at the University of Connecticut, said high school associations should be first to act because they have more flexibility to move quickly.

"Trying to get a state law passed, one, can take a long time but two, sometimes a lot of things get attached to the laws that weren't the original intention. Also, they're written by people who don't truly understand the nuances of a football practice or how sports work into the system of a school year. Those are nuances that the state high school association totally gets," Casa said.

In 2013, best practice recommendations were published in the Journal of Athletic Training, but many states are still lagging in implementation of those guidelines. They include having a full-time athletic trainer on staff, having automated external defibrillators in every school and accessible to all staff members, and having an emergency action plan for managing serious and potentially life threatening injuries. Funding is often cited as the reason schools, many of which are already struggling to make ends, meet fail to implement these recommendations.

According to the NATA and AMSSM, only 37 percent of high schools in the United States have full-time athletic trainers. Only 22 percent of states meet the recommendation that every school or organization that sponsors athletics develop an emergency action plan. Only 50 percent of states have met recommendations that all athletic trainers, coaches, administrators, school nurses and other staffers have access to an automated external defibrillator.

Casa said just 14 states meet the minimum best practices with regard to heat acclimatization, but the ones that have adopted them since 2011 have had no athlete deaths from heat stroke.

Casa cited Georgia, Arkansas, Texas, North Carolina and New Jersey as states that have been leaders in implementing the recommendations.

Jason Cates, a member of the executive committee of the Arkansas Athletic Trainers' Association who led reforms in Arkansas after a high school basketball player died of sudden cardiac arrest in 2008, said that while legislation can be help to move programs forward, it can also create problems with legal liability.

"At what point in time are we going to legislate ourselves out of sports?" he said. "I think in some states, in some instances (legislation) is the way to go, but my hope is people just get it.

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