@PermanenteDocs Sports Medicine Surgeon & Chief of Orthopedics @kpfresno. Host of "The OJSM Hot Corner" podcast. 🏀🎸@sagaftra. Oakland native. Girl Dad of 3.
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🙏 @atorreanews & @ABC30 for having me on again! Youth sports have changed. Where in the past athletes would switch sports by season, the current trend of Sports Specialization is to focus on one sport year-round. This can take a mental & physical toll on our young athletes.
Spring sports are underway for many young athletes in our community. Taking precautions to avoid injury and burnout is essential to keeping sports healthy and fun. Sports Medicine physician, @Anthony_YuMD, shares more: k-p.li/4bakHD7
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Today on The Hot Corner @Anthony_YuMD welcomes Drs. Darius Lamiere & Daniel Whelan from @UofT Ortho to discuss their study “Outcomes After Operative v Nonop Management of Type III to V AC Joint Dislocations - A Systematic Review of RCTs"
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Excellent read. With large sums of money are at stake, who has the youth athlete’s best interest at heart?
‘Travel sports,’ a term that has come to encompass all sorts of private teams, leagues, and clubs, used to be for the truly exceptional young athlete. Now, they’re for anyone willing to pay — an expensive, exhausting commitment that has become popular not necessarily because millions of parents want them for their children but because it can feel like there’s no other choice. Rec programs are underfunded and struggle to compete with for-profit leagues for prime field, rink, and court times. And the level of play is diluted, often very early, as travel teams are incentivized to enroll children at young ages.
Around 5 million children in the U.S. now compete on travel teams. Parents find themselves trapped. They know the benefits of sports and want that for their children, yet giving it to them often means buying into a sports ecosystem that’s inherently flawed. As the pay-to-play model increasingly takes hold, so does the idea that kids should start competing at younger and younger ages, risking their sense of self along with their shoulders and ACLs.
“I never want my kids to look back and say I didn’t do everything I could to help them live their dreams,” a mother of three soccer players said. She’s hired professional photographers to take action shots for her 12- and 13-year-olds’ Instagram accounts — the platform has become a recruiting tool — and they’ve both asked her to pay for personal trainers.
“I think the word isn’t ‘specialize’; you are ‘professionalizing’ your kid early. You are exposing them to everything professionals have to deal with — I’m talking injury, time, schedule, everything,” said John Van Benschoten, a former MLB player and travel-baseball coach.
It makes one ask: All this for what? And for whom? Read Caitlin Moscatello’s cover story on how travel leagues have made youth sports more expensive, hypercompetitive, and all-consuming — and the investors who are making a killing: nymag.visitlink.me/1-gbZQ
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Our NBA Achilles paper got a lot of coverage.
Yet, this is the second time we've found this pattern.
In 2021, we studied 34 players who missed 10+ straight games after a significant injury. Their minutes were elevated 4.9% (prior 3 games), 5.8% (prior 5), and 4.0% (prior 10) compared to their season averages.
Different injuries. Different eras. Different samples.
Same finding: risk tracks the recent change in workload, not the season-long total.
These are retrospective studies and the numbers are small with no control group. But we are seeing a pattern across 2 studies.
More studies to come as we examine this further.
🙏 @DrNiravPandya for sharing your results and viral experience with this study. Achilles tears in athletes in their 20s used to be rare birds. This study is a great initial step in trying to make sense of what is behind this concerning trend in our young athletes.
On The Hot Corner @Anthony_YuMD welcomes @DrNiravPandya from @UCSFOrthosurg to discuss “Short-Term Workload Patterns Before Achilles Tendon Rupture in NBA Players” that has garnered national attention, and the viral response to the study’s findings.
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On The Hot Corner @Anthony_YuMD welcomes @DrNiravPandya from @UCSFOrthosurg to discuss “Short-Term Workload Patterns Before Achilles Tendon Rupture in NBA Players” that has garnered national attention, and the viral response to the study’s findings.
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Thanks to @ABC30 for having me on again!!
The #WorldCup has put soccer front and center, and many are being inspired to take to the pitch and kick the ball around. It's important to think safety first to help prevent injuries and keep the "beautiful game" fun for all! @Anthony_YuMD shares more: k-p.li/4aIgXJv
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The #WorldCup has put soccer front and center, and many are being inspired to take to the pitch and kick the ball around. It's important to think safety first to help prevent injuries and keep the "beautiful game" fun for all! @Anthony_YuMD shares more: k-p.li/4aIgXJv
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🎙️ In this recent #OJSM Hot Corner, host @Anthony_YuMD discusses a new comparison of management options for calcific tendinitis. Listen at hotcorner.libsyn.com or wherever you get your podcasts. With
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Congratulations to Kaiser Permanente Fresno for earning an “A” grade from The Leapfrog Group for meeting national standards in patient safety. Thank you to our teams for providing high-quality, safe care. Learn more: k-p.li/4dCAf4R
Thanks to @ABC30 for having me on again! The human body was made to move. Exercise offers more benefit than any pill - it’s good for both physical & mental health, and there’s strong evidence it improves sleep. Who amongst us doesn’t want better sleep???
Getting regular exercise is a great way to give your overall health a boost, yet less than half of U.S. adults are getting the exercise they need. Our sports medicine physician, @anthony_yuMD, spoke with @ABC30 about the importance of staying active: k-p.li/4cDLrN3
🙏 @DevittBrian!
Today on #TheHotCorner, @Anthony_YuMD welcomes @DevittBrian, MD, to discuss his study “Psychological Readiness in Elite v Nonelite Athletes After ACL Reconstruction”. Do high-level athletes exhibit greater psychological readiness compared to the average? hotcorner.libsyn.com/psychol…
Thanks to Drs. Irrgang & Mater for this work! The rate of tear enlargement in this group was very small giving the surgeon some reassurance that a trial of PT most likely will not lead to worsening of a cuff tear and gives the patient a chance to succeed without needing surgery.
Today on #TheHotCorner, @Anthony_YuMD is joined by Drs. James Irrgang & Luke Matter (Pitt) to discuss their study on rotator cuff tears—exploring factors behind tear progression and patient-reported outcomes after personalized exercise therapy.
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Today on #TheHotCorner, @Anthony_YuMD welcomes @NEBaseballDoc to discuss his study “Do Pitching Restriction Policies Reduce Shoulder and Elbow Injuries in High School Baseball Players?” Have the measures to keep pitchers safe implanted a decade ago worked?
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🙏 for a great discussion!
Appreciate the opportunity to discuss our HS⚾️pitching restriction policy study & shoulder/elbow injuries with @Anthony_YuMD & @aossmjournals
on The OJSM Hot Corner! Our research team will be discussing this study at 2026 AMSSM Annual Meeting in Seattle!
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Today on The Hot Corner, @Anthony_YuMD welcomes Mohammad Daher, MD, & Joseph Abboud, MD, from @RothmanOrtho to discuss their study “Improvement of Sleep Disturbance After Rotator Cuff Repair Occurs at 3 Months."
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🙏 to @DrGrantHogue for this high-level work! Get it, “high”-level. Whatever nevermind. Happy Thanksgiving 🦃 from the OJSM Hot Corner
Today on #TheHotCorner, @Anthony_YuMD welcomes @DrGrantHogue from @BostonChildrens to discuss his study “Effect of Marijuana Use on Pain Management and Return to Sport After ACL Reconstruction in Pediatric and Adolescent Patients”.
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#OJSM #ALC
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We’re proud to announce that Kaiser Permanente was rated the nation’s top brand for value in @Forbes' America’s Best Brands for Value survey. We’re the only health care organization to make the list. k-p.li/3WESqxE
Thanks to @GlennFleisig & @PeterChalmersMD for this important work. While all of the presumed risk factors for UCL tear likely play some role, it appears mechanics resulting in tremendous torque at the elbow is the most important.
Today, @Anthony_YuMD welcomes @GlennFleisig & @PeterChalmersMD to discuss a pivotal study that identifies which risk factors, like velocity, pitch count, & torque, associate with UCL injury.
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#SportsMedicine #UCLInjury
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Today, @Anthony_YuMD welcomes @GlennFleisig & @PeterChalmersMD to discuss a pivotal study that identifies which risk factors, like velocity, pitch count, & torque, associate with UCL injury.
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#SportsMedicine #UCLInjury