Episode 9: Surge in ACL Injuries

02/17/22 • 19 min

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought a lot of things, and one of those might be an uptick in ACL injuries among adolescent athletes. We talked with pediatric orthopedic surgeon Dr. Donna Pacicca from the Children's Mercy Sports Medicine Center about this trend, as well as treatments and medical developments in ACL injuries. The conversation provided great insights into ACL injuries in male and female athletes, as well as a terrific description on what the ACL is and does in the knee.

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Episode 8: Handling Mistakes and Losses

Even though athletes can appear super-human at times, at the end of the day we are all human and mistakes and falling on the short side of the scoreboard are just facts of life when it comes to the world of sport. What are some things that can help our adolescent athletes with handling mistakes and accepting defeat? Children's Mercy Sports Medicine Center's Becky Wiseman, a specialist when it comes to the mental aspect of sport, teaches us how to see this challenges as opportunities to improve, mature and grow, while emerging as a stronger person.

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Episode 10: Patella Dislocation

Continuing with common knee injuries, in this episode we talk about patella dislocations with Kevin Latz, MD, the Chief of the Children's Mercy Sports Medicine Center. The discussion baselines what patella dislocations are, as well as non-operative and operative treatments, as well as genetic tendencies of these injuries. This episode compliments our previous episode which covered a recent surge in ACL injuries and the commonalities between the two injuries when it comes to the swelling of the knee.