Injury to the articular cartilage of a joint can be a very difficult problem. The articular cartilage is the cartilage lining on the end of a bone. As one of my colleagues used to tell patients, articular cartilage is “the white stuff on the end of a chicken bone.” It provides some degree of shock [...]
+Continue ReadingAthletes who live in warm climates often have to deal with environmental concerns in their training and competition. In warm weather areas and seasons, heat illness is unfortunately a cause for concern. It is a spectrum of disorders that can range from mild forms (heat edema, rash, or cramps), progressing to more serious disease (heat [...]
+Continue ReadingOne of the scariest possible events in all of sports, sudden cardiac death (SCD) is the leading cause of death in young athletes in the United States. It is estimated to occur in 1 in every 200,000 high school and college athletes. It is more common in males, especially African-American males, and sports such as [...]
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C. David Geier Jr., M.D.
