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Dr. Meyers explains how the core functions through stories from his work in locker rooms, the operating room, and the playing fields of elite athletes, giving readers a thorough understanding of the core's widespread influence on athleticism and the human anatomy.
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This study of 38 pro athletes identified the incidence of symptoms consistent with athletic pubalgia in athletes requiring surgery for femoroacetabular impingement (FAI) in the hip. This study draws attention to the overlap of these two diagnoses and highlights the importance of caution in diagnosing athletic pubalgia in a patient with FAI.
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Dr. Meyers explains how, in the early 1980s while studying at Duke, he stumbled upon an experiment that led to a new understanding of core muscle injuries.
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Yes, athletes suffer from depression, just like many non-athletes do. Given the culture of athletics, team personnel should be increasingly aware of the rate of the depression among athletes and the relevant risk factors that could contribute to such a feeling.
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Tigers pitcher Justin Verlander's 2014 surgery was performed by Dr. Meyers, who also had operated on Detroit teammate Miguel Cabrera for a groin injury.
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When pH levels are unbalanced, it is mostly a case of being too acidic. This causes the body to borrow crucial minerals from organs, bones, and tissue to try and neutralize the acid and remove it from the body. The first step in achieving pH balance is diet.
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Elite and weekend athletes flock to the Vincera Institute and Dr. William Meyers, the founding father of core muscle injuries, for repair of what had inaccurately been called sports hernias.
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Miguel Cabrera, a former baseball Triple Crown winner who had played through pain for much of the 2013 season and postseason for Detroit becomes the next star athlete to have a core muscle injury repaired by Dr. Meyers.
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Iowa quarterback C.J. Beathard had sports hernia surgery done by Dr. Meyers after the 2015 college football season.
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Jack Sock, a top American tennis player, references an abdominal injury suffered earlier in his career and how that changed his fitness approach somewhat.
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This study of more than 400 women with different types of breast disease suggests there may be a threshold for total body iodine required for prevention of breast disease.
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As the number of females competing in athletics increased, this study of 114 patients showed that most pelvic pain in women athletes was identifiable and treatable. Most had benign musculoskeletal causes, and surgery played an important role in treatment of those causes. Still, a large number of other causes required longer specialized care, and health care professionals need to be alert to the new concepts of pelvic injury and the various roles for surgery and the broad list of other considerations.
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The first 30 cases of single-port-access laparoscopic ventral hernia repair showed it is a viable procedure.
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How hip injuries such as labral tears, hip pointers and pulled or torn hamstrings occur most frequently in athletes at all levels.
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This research provides a basis for future development of devices that can routinely be used to assess quality of life data from patients with chronic wounds in the lower extremities that could potentially help improve quality of care, continuously monitor the effectiveness of treatment
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An in-depth presentation on the value of MR imaging for the clinical work-up of athletic pubalgia and how it increases with the radiologist?s familiarity with and recognition of injury patterns in the anatomic structures surrounding the pubic symphysis.
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Dr. William Meyers gets right to the core of athletes' injuries
Chances are, if a professional athlete has had surgery to repair a core injury, Meyers was the guy who performed it. Most recently, Meyers was in the news for his treatment of Seattle Seahawks running back Marshawn Lynch, who underwent surgery last week to repair an abdominal injury, and over the years, he's taken care of some of the world's biggest stars, from Adrian Peterson and Arian Foster to Justin Verlander and Robinson Cano, with athletes from just about every level of every sport in between.
"We Really Focus On Kids": Philadelphia's Vincera Institute Helping Children Succeed Through Sports With Celebrity Golf Outing
A celebrity golf outing and a Philadelphia-based institute and foundation behind the event are helping kids succeed through sports. The golfers teed up Monday, even in the bad weather. Professional golfer Sean O'Hair is still recovering from surgery on the oblique muscle in his abdomen that he tore at Pebble Beach. "I was pretty scared, first major injury as an athlete, didn't know if I was going to be able to play golf again," But he's back on the links with a new appreciation for his core.
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If you want a statistical measure of Meyers' surgical genius, you could start with the success Roy Oswalt and Cliff Lee had in the years after their surgeries. Lee made four all-star games and won a Cy Young Award. Oswalt won 163 games, became one of the most durable pitchers in baseball, and, post-surgery, earned more than $96 million. "Dr. Meyers saved my career," Oswalt says plainly.
Over the years, Meyers has saved the careers of baseball, basketball, football, hockey, and tennis stars and helped thousands of weekend athletes — including me. Somewhat by accident, he invented a surgery to repair an injury that, in previous generations, forced athletes to retire; an injury that didn't even have a name, because it didn't show up on standard MRIs.