The Sports Docs Podcast
Join orthopedic sports surgeons, Dr. Catherine Logan & Dr. Ashley Bassett, as they chat about the most recent developments in sports medicine and dissect through all the noise.
The Sports Docs – Dr. Logan & Dr. Bassett – are friends & former co-residents from the Harvard Combined Orthopaedic Residency Program, who went onto esteemed sports medicine fellowships at The Steadman Clinic and The Rothman Institute, respectively.
Sports medicine is a constantly evolving field, with hundreds of new articles published each month on the topic. This ever-growing wealth of information can make it challenging to stay updated on the newest approaches and techniques, and to know which data should actually change your practice.
On each episode of The Sports Docs podcast, the hosts will tackle a specific injury – from ACL tears to shoulder instability – and review the top research from various high-impact journals that month, including The American Journal of Sports Medicine, Arthroscopy: The Journal of Arthroscopic and Related Surgery, Sports Health, Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgeons, and more.
The Sports Docs will also be joined by experts in the field of sports medicine – orthopedic surgeons, nonoperative sports medicine specialists, athletes, physical therapists, athletic trainers and others – to provide a fresh and well-rounded perspective based on their unique experiences.
Latest Episodes
On today’s episode we’re focusing on Achilles tendon ruptures with Dr. Bonnie Chien. We have some great articles for you that contribute well to our conversation on the optimal management of Achilles tendon ruptures and the different surgical approaches.
Today we’re going to give you an update pertaining to one of our favorite topics – ACL. We’re going to review an article from the January issue of AJSM year titled “Risk of Revision and Reoperation After Quadriceps Tendon Autograft ACL Reconstruction Compared with Patellar Tendon and Hamstring Autografts in a US Cohort of 21,973 Patients.”
In this Overtime episode, The Sports Docs discuss the remplissage procedure and will be reviewing an article from the January issue of AJSM year titled “Stabilizing Mechanisms in Patients Treated Using Hill-Sachs Remplissage with Bankart Repair in Abduction–External Rotation Position.”
Our next poster is titled The Utility of Stress Ultrasound in Identifying Risk Factors for Elbow Ulnar Collateral Ligament Rupture: A Longitudinal Study of 203 Professional Baseball Players. This study was performed by your colleagues at the Rothman Institute and aimed to identify anatomic risk factors on dynamic ultrasound that may predispose players to future UCL injury.
Our next poster is titled Primary Latarjet Procedure versus Latarjet in the Setting of Previously Failed Bankart Repair: A Systematic Review.
Our next poster is titled Revision Osteochondral Allograft Transplantation after Failed Autologous Chondrocyte Implantation of the Knee: A Matched Cohort Analysis. Dr. Brian Cole and team at Rush sought to evaluate the clinical outcomes associated with revision OCA after failed ACI as compared with a matched cohort of patients undergoing primary OCA.
Our next AAOS 2024 Annual Meeting poster is titled The Statistical Fragility of Platelet-Rich Plasma in Lateral Epicondylitis: A Systematic Review and Simulated Fragility Analysis of Randomized Controlled Trials.
Our next poster is titled Arthroscopic Rotator Cuff Repair with Bioinductive Patch Achieves Equivalent Patient-Reported Outcomes At 1 Year and was performed by Dr. Stephanie Muh and team at Wayne State University and Henry Ford Medical Center.
Our next AAOS 2024 Annual Meeting poster is titled The Influence of Donor Demographics on Outcomes following Knee Osteochondral Allograft Transplantation. This study was performed by Dr. Brian Cole and Dr. Adam Yanke at Rush and aimed to assess the impact of donor sex and age, donor-recipient sex mismatch, and graft storage duration on clinical outcomes and failure rates in knee OCA transplantation.
Our first poster, titled The Comparison of Injuries in National Football League Players (2016-2021) based on the Playing Surface: Natural Grass versus Artificial Turf. This past season in the NFL we saw a staggering number of injuries, many of which we covered on our Injury Report episodes, so go check those out if you haven’t already! These injuries particularly impacted quarterbacks. 50% of QBs suffered injuries that required time missed, the highest in NFL history.