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ACL Injury may Arise from Knee Geometry

February 3, 2012

ROSEMONT, IL -- According to a new study published in the Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery, the answer to the question of why females are more prone than males to ACL injury may lie in geometry -- the length and shape of a patient's knee bone.

The study compared MRI scans of male and female athletes with non-contact ACL injuries with those of athletes who participated in similar, at-risk sports but without a history of ligament injury.

The study found that most

All Encompassing

Rebecca Mayer — February 3, 2012

Home health agency rebrands.

AthletiCo Joins Concussion Coalition

February 2, 2012

Midwest-based AthletiCo Physical and Occupational Therapy has joined the Chicago Concussion Coalition as a founding member. AthletiCo will support the coalition's mission to provide student-athletes in the greater Chicago area with resources to protect them from traumatic brain injuries in sports.

The Chicago Concussion Coalition was formed in Aug. 2011 under the leadership of the Boston-based Sports Legacy Institute to offer more localized resources to Chicago-area coaches, athletic

Bariatric Considerations in Physical Therapy

Jeffrey Heskin, DPT — February 6, 2012

An ever increasing number of our patients are obese and the trend is that they are getting larger. Obesity is defined as a body mass index (BMI) of 30 or greater. BMI is a relative estimation of adiposity. In addition to BMI, other considerations should be taken to assess a person's health risk related to weight. One of these considerations is a person's waist circumference because excess abdominal fat is associated with a higher risk of diabetes, dyslipidemia, hypertension and cardiova

E-stim Unit for SCI Wins Grant

February 4, 2012

Zaghoul Ahmed, PhD, of the Department of Physical Therapy at the College of Staten Island (CSI) and Department of Neuroscience at The City University of New York (CUNY) Graduate Center, was one of five winners of the $1.5 million 2011 BioAccelerate NYC Prize for his research of the PathMaker Neuromuscular Treatment System, a CUNY-trademarked method of treating spinal cord injuries by using electrical stimulation to strengthen neuromotor connections.

Dr. Ahmed was awarded the prize fo

Electronic Health Records Are The Future

By Brian O'Neill — February 2, 2012

Practice owners leave paper records in the past.

Exercise For Parkinson's Patients

Beth Puliti — February 7, 2012

A non-profit program uses research-based exercise programming to retrain the brain.

February 6, 2012 - Volume 23, Number 3

February 6, 2012