A brand new study out of the Cleveland Clinic just tracked nearly 1,800 athletes through their knee replacement and recovery — and the results challenge a lot of what patients are being told. Only 53% made it back to sports within a year. But the ones who did? Most were back in just 12 weeks. So what separates the people who return from the ones who don't? As a sports medicine doctor in the San Francisco Bay Area, I treat patients with knee arthritis every week. And this que
If you're over 40 and you've had a shoulder MRI, there's a 99% chance your report says something is wrong with your rotator cuff. Tendinopathy. Partial tear. Maybe even a full-thickness tear. That sounds terrifying. But a brand new study just scanned over 600 random people's shoulders — people with pain AND people without — and what they found completely changes how we should think about these results. Hey everyone, Dr. Jeff Peng here. I'm a sports medicine doctor currently p
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