A Look on the Flyers Bright Side (and not so bright side): Voracek, Giroux, Simmonds, Couturier and more over the last 10 games

By pavialax
Posted on 03/10/2013 at 3:31 pm

Sigh, the Flyers. I could probably end this right here and have summed up the feelings of thousands of Flyers fans. There have been a few bright spots in this otherwise dim, dreary season for our Flyers. It’s hard to put your finger on just one thing that is wrong with this season, but to be honest there’s only a couple of things going right, so naturally they are easy to point out. I wanted to really see if we should have seen this coming, so I looked at the top 4 performing Flyers so far this season and compared …

RICE & MICE: Matt Read’s rib cage muscles and Zach Redmond’s femoral artery

By pavialax
Posted on 02/24/2013 at 4:01 pm

Injuries giveth and injuries taketh away. Just as it was announced that Scott Hartnell was nearing a return to the Flyers lineup, it was announced that Matt Read would miss around six weeks with torn rib cage muscles. Read left the February 20 game against Pittsburgh after the first period and did not return. Now, when players injure their wrist, we can put a brace on it. Shoulder injury? Put the shoulder in a sling. Ankle? Give them some crutches so they can rest the ankle. Rib muscle injury? Well, we can’t exactly tell a player to stop breathing …

RICE & MICE: What’s all the fuss about deer antler spray?

By pavialax
Posted on 02/10/2013 at 3:15 pm

The latest buzz about performance enhancing drugs (PEDs) is all about the deer antler spray. I know I’ve heard plenty of people wondering aloud what exactly deer antler spray is, followed up by wondering if something like that would actually work. Deer antler spray, also known as deer antler velvet, is a supplement made from, you guessed it, deer antlers. Male moose, elk, and deer produce and shed antlers every year as do female reindeer and caribou. When the antlers begin to grow, they are covered with a highly vascular and innervated skin, called velvet (literally because it looks and …

RICE & MICE: Multiple Sclerosis

By pavialax
Posted on 01/25/2013 at 1:00 pm

I assume everyone that follows the National Hockey League has heard that Minnesota goalie Josh Harding was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis (MS) in September while the lockout shenanigans were going on, so here’s an overview of MS and how it may impact Harding. MS is an autoimmune disease. This means that the body’s immune system doesn’t recognize something as it’s own and attacks it. Basically, the body attacks it’s own cells. Autoimmune diseases may impact certain organs, such as the thyroid, or certain types of cells. MS affects the nervous system (brain, spinal cord, nerves) by attacking the cells that …

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RICE & MICE: Injury overview, Atlantic Division

By pavialax
Posted on 01/16/2013 at 12:41 pm

New Jersey Devils Center Adam Henrique is recovering from a torn ligament (ulnar collateral ligament) in his left thumb. The ligament was torn in an AHL game in November and was surgically repaired on November 29. The 4-to-6 week recovery time puts his comeback in February. I wrote about this injury a while back if you would like more information: Gamekeeper’s Thumb New York Islanders Center Josh Bailey injured his left knee while playing in Germany during the lockout. He had arthroscopic surgery and will miss 2-to-4 weeks. The Islanders have suspended Bailey until he can pass a physical. Winger …

RICE & MICE: More than you want to know about the mumps

By pavialax
Posted on 01/10/2013 at 6:27 pm

Mumps is a contagious viral infection that causes painful swelling of the parotid glands (parotitis), the glands located below each ear that produce saliva. It is caused by the paramyxovirus and is spread through contact with saliva of an infected person. Children are more commonly affected by mumps, however adults can also contract the virus. Symptoms of the mumps are pain and swelling of the face and neck on one or both sides, pain with chewing and swallowing, headache, sore throat and fever. The face and neck swelling are a telltale sign and people look like a chipmunk that has …

RICE & MICE: Osgood-Schlatter Disease

By pavialax
Posted on 11/21/2012 at 12:30 pm

Osgood-Schlatter disease (OSD) is one of the common causes of knee pain in children and adolescents. Calling it a disease definitely makes it sound much more serious and dangerous than it is. Disease is actually a misnomer, because it’s an overuse injury that causes painful lumps on the front of the knee at the top of the tibia, the bigger bone in the lower leg. The patellar tendon attaches to the tibia at the tibial tubercle OSD occurs when there is too much traction stress on the attachment of the patellar tendon during a growth spurt in young boys and …

RICE & MICE: Lisfranc injuries

By pavialax
Posted on 10/10/2012 at 12:00 pm

Thankfully, one of the injuries that hockey players are not prone to getting are Lisfranc injuries. Jets wide receiver Santonio Holmes will miss the remainder of the season with the dreaded injury and, unfortunately, many athletes just don’t come back 100 percent from damage to the Lisfranc area. Lisfranc injuries are also called Lisfranc dislocations, Lisfanc fracture or Lisfranc fracture-dislocations, tarsometatarsal injury or just simply a mid-foot injury. It is named for Jacques Lisfranc de St. Martin, when he performed an amputation of the forefoot to the tarsometatarsal joints during the Napoleonic Wars. Ever since, the mid-foot where the metatarsal bones meet …

RICE & MICE: Spleen injuries

By pavialax
Posted on 09/26/2012 at 12:00 pm

Just a month ago, Dallas Cowboys tight end, Jason Witten had suffered a lacerated spleen in a preseason football game that threatened his ability to play this season. Fortunately, his spleen laceration was not severe enough to require surgery and he was able to recover in an extraordinarily fast time in order to play in the season opener just 23 days later. Of course, I ended up having a great conversation with a patient about why they didn’t operate on Jason Witten’s lacerated spleen. The spleen is located in the upper left side of the belly and sits snugly behind …

RICE & MICE: What a pain in the butt! Piriformis syndrome

By pavialax
Posted on 09/05/2012 at 1:37 pm

Piriformis syndrome is one of the causes of sciatica, or irritation of the sciatic nerve. The piriformis is a deep muscle of the buttocks that lays beneath the gluteal muscles. It runs from the sacrum, the fused vertebrae at the bottom of the spine to the femur, or thigh bone. In most people, the sciatic nerve lays underneath the piriformis, but in up to 25 percent of people, the sciatic nerve will actually pass through the muscle. The function of the piriformis is external rotation or rotation of the leg out as well as assist in abduction, or bringing the …

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