Orthopedics
Training and conditioning are key to preventing sports injuries
Warmer weather may be turning St. Louisans’ minds to baseball, but don’t count your hometown hockey team out for the season just yet. With a win over the Nashville Predators on Tuesday, the St. Louis Blues are giving fans new hope for a playoff run. The current injury report shows that road ahead won’t necessarily be [...]
Entertainer sidelined by synovitis
Lady Gaga performed for a crowd of 18,000 people at the Scottrade Center just over a week ago. It turns out that fans here in St. Louis may have been watching the entertainer aggravate an injury that has left her unable to walk. Today Lady Gaga announced that her “Born This Way” tour is on hold [...]
Changing the way we look at sports injuries
Football fans across the country are tuning in today to watch the NFL’s big game. Although the Rams won’t take home the Lombardi trophy this year, St. Louis fans are already looking ahead to the 2013 season. The Rams had a hard time putting points on the board in 2012 when top offensive weapons like wide [...]
Keeping the Rams Healthy in 2012
New coach Jeff Fisher and the St. Louis Rams kick off the NFL regular season on Sunday, taking on the Detroit Lions in the Motor City. It’s a day the team and many fans have been waiting for since the end of last season. The Rams are one of the youngest teams in the NFL [...]
Congrats to Our Golf Expo Winners
The St. Louis Golf Expo greeted hundreds of avid—and casual—golfers at its 2012 event in the St. Charles Convention Center, Jan. 20-22. Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University Orthopedics were part of the crowd of sponsors and presenters that numbered more than 90. If you stopped by one of our three booths, you had a chance to meet [...]
Justin Imm: Golf Expo Winner
Our winner of the Callaway golf bag, Justin Imm of Waterloo, Ill., is fairly new to the game of golf. “I just started golfing last year due to some friends wanting to try it,” Justin says. “I never really thought I would like it because I had always played football….” But the sport seems to [...]
Mark Keller: Golf Expo Winner
Visiting the Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University Orthopedics booths at the recent St. Louis Golf Expo turned out to be a pretty good thing for Mark Keller, who won the Callaway Diablo Octane driver by dropping his name into our contest box. Mark reports that he plays quite a bit of golf, “probably 75 rounds a [...]
Todd McKee: Golf Expo Winner
Todd McKee, one of five winners in the golf giveaway sponsored by Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University Orthopedics at the recent St. Louis Golf Expo, is going to do one of the only decent things a married man can do when he wins a woman’s Taylor Made golf bag. “I’ll use the bag for my [...]
Eric Holt: Golf Expo Winner
When we contacted Eric Holt to tell him he’d won the iPad 2 in the Barnes-Jewish Hospital and Washington University Orthopedics St. Louis Golf expo giveaway, he told us he’d “just returned from a two-day Florida trip” to play golf. And, he added, he is “looking to play in the Denver and Minneapolis areas this [...]
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