Sports Medicine

In the News

Dr. Lyle J. Micheli, Director of the Division of Sports Medicine and Dr. Mininder S. Kocher, Associate Director of the Division of Sports Medicine have been listed in Boston Magazine's Top Docs list in 2008 and in 2009.

Dr. Lyle J. Micheli

• eClinic 
  Watch Dr. Micheli's videos discussing preventing back injury, consequences of steriod use, common dance injuries and issues in children's sports.
• Until It Hurts
  Dr. Micheli is featured in the book by Mark Hyman that gives a parent's point of view on his child's surgery to fix a sport-related elbow injury.
• Knee Hero
• America's obsession with youth sports and how it harms our kids
• Repair ACL injuries in young athletes quickly

Dr. Mininder S. Kocher

• From the operating room to the winners podium
• eClinic
  Watch Dr. Kocher's eClinic interviews discussing the changing climate of youth sports and injuries, parents being involved in their kids sports and the injuries he sees the most in his clinic.
• Interest in Orthopaedic Surgery
• Teens training too hard, too often
• Gene testing to dictate sports for toddlers
• Youths in triathlons
• ACL surgery for all ages
• Big league problem: protecting young pitchers
• Torn ACLs, other big injuries hit little athletes
• The rise in diagnosis of ACL injuries in children
• How was Tiger Woods able to play golf for a year with a badly injured knee?

Dr. Martha M. Murray

• Wounded knees
  Martha Murray, MD, talks to The Boston Globe about fixing the knee at a time when ACL and other knee injuries are most common.
• ACL injuries in female athletes
  Martha Murray, MD, WCVB-TV about ACL injuries in girls
• Healing ACL tears
  Martha Murray, MD, talks to WTVF-TV about healing ACL tears.
• A passion for healing
  Martha Murray, MD, is featured in a Center for Integration of Medicine and Innovative Technology (CIMIT) video about enhanced primary ACL repair.

Dr. Michael J. O'Brien

• Dietary supplements
  Michael O'Brien, MD, discusses the current view on dietary supplements for children as featured in Pediatric Views, a Children's Hospital Boston publication.
• Cheerleading and mixed martial arts
  Michael O'Brien, MD discusses the dangers of cheerleading and mixed martial arts as featured in Dream Magazine, a Children's Hospital Boston publication.
• Dominicans try shots to boost rising players
  Michael O'Brien, MD talked to the New York Times about the problems that could be associated with injecting young athletes with vitamins and painkillers.

Dr. Ellen Geminiani

• The young female athlete
  Ellen Geminiani, MD, discusses the young female athletes' susceptibility to injury.

Dr. Thomas Vorderer

• The road to success paved with bad advice
  Thomas Vorderer, DPM talks to the New York Times about the rights and wrongs of running and how to prevent yourself from getting injured.

Sports Concussion Clinic

• New state concussion law puts players, schools on alert - Dr. William Meehan told the Patriot Ledger that about 15% of all high school injuries are sports-related concussions and that there is no doubt that football is the chief culprit when it comes to concussions during the fall season.
• Preventing concussions in high school sports - As kids start training for fall contact team sports, preventing concussions is an increasingly important topic. Watch Children’s Dr. William Meehan give a TV interview on how to prevent concussions.
• Pierre d'Hemecourt, MD and Bill Meehan, MD are featured in an article introducing the new Sports Concussion Clinic as part of the Division of Sports Medicine as featured in Pediatric Views, a Children's Hospital Boston publication.
• Bill Meehan, MD tells WCVB TV Boston that a concussion is not an injury to be taken lightly and also stresses the importance of treating a concussion properly.
• Coaches, parents: Take concussion seriously
  Bill Meehan, MD wrote an article about the seriousness of concussions in the MetroWest Daily News.

Brian Fitzgerald, BSN, ATC, LAT discusses changing work settings.

Lyle Micheli, MD, Pierre d'Hemecourt, MD and Jan Hangen, MS, RD, LDN talk with Children's Hospital Boston's publication Pediatric Views about avoiding pediatric sports injuries including: training plans, patient education, ACL injury prevention and cardiac screening.