Shoulder Surgery Helps Athletes Get Back in the Game
July 10, 2009 - 7:20am
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Athletics can be a great motivator for surgery and an even greater one for patients to stick to a rehabilitation schedule," Drake said.
He and his colleagues noted that "activity modification" for the first six months after surgery protected the shoulder against sports-related injuries, such as a deceleration injury that can be caused when a golf club hits the ground during a swing or as the result of a fall during a tennis match. And any type of contact sport is discouraged following joint replacement surgery.
The study was to be presented this week at the annual meeting of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine, in Keystone, Colo.
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