Recent Posts in Dr. Beau Sasser's Sports Medicine Blog I Bet You Can't Touch Your Toes Jul 18, 2017 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System “Don’t keep reaching for the stars because you’ll just look like an idiot stretching that way for no reason.” ~Jimmy Fallon “Forty is the old age of youth; fifty is the youth of old age.” ~Victor Hugo My age, 45, puts me at the top of the life span bell curve. It’s a great view, but now that I have trudged up this midlife hill, I have noticed that there ... Keep Reading Shoulder Dislocation and Instability Jun 12, 2017 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System “Leaders don’t step on the toes of dwarfs. They mount shoulders of Giants.” ~Israelmore Ayivor Although we sometimes feel as if we are carrying the world on our shoulders, we are all lucky that, unlike Atlas, we are not. But our shoulders are the point on our bodies we most consistently DO use to carry our loads – parents tote their toddlers on them, women perch their ... Keep Reading Frozen Shoulder: you'd rather it was just cold May 18, 2017 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System That’s the difference between golf and many other sports. You go to some sporting events, they just leave you or give you the cold shoulder and move on. ~Bernhard Langer In the medical field, there are an innumerable eponymous conditions or signs usually named after the physician who first described them. Some orthopedic terms are humdingers: Apley’s grind test, Babinski sign, ... Keep Reading Who Needs Sleep? Apr 3, 2017 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System My hands are locked up tight in fists. My mind is racing filled with lists. Of things to do and things I’ve done another sleepless night’s begun. -Barenaked Ladies, Who needs sleep Fatigue makes cowards of us all. -Vince Lombardi On the wall in my office are all the certificates and degrees I have earned. I decided to put them up because they have followed me from house to house in the ... Keep Reading Alligators and AC Separations Mar 8, 2017 Posted By Dr. Beau Sasser It’s a shallow life that doesn’t give a person a few scars. -Garrison Keillor I have a bump on top of my right shoulder that tells a good story. I got it when I was thirteen on my dirt bike - a red Honda XR100r that I mowed a lot of lawns to pay for myself. The bike was nothing fancy, but it could be rode hard and put up wet, and the next day or even the next month, it would still ... Keep Reading Hello? Can you hear me now? Feb 10, 2017 Posted By Dr. Beau Sasser If you don’t eat your meat, you can’t have any pudding! How can you eat your pudding if you don’t eat your meat? -Pink Floyd, Another Brick In The Wall Pt. 2 Sometimes in the course of a regular day at work, I begin to feel like I’m playing a game of telephone with certain patients. You remember the telephone game, don’t you? Where one person says something, and it is ... Keep Reading I've fallen, and I can't get up . . . Well, maybe I can: How to treat a common sprain or strain and when to seek treatment. Jan 19, 2017 Posted By Dr. Beau Sasser I have seen thousands of patients over the years, but as I walk into clinic each Monday morning and peruse my patient list, I know somewhere on that list is a patient with a story I have never heard before. I have heard some doozies that would make your ears burn or your belly ache with laughter. They usually start with, “Hey doc, you’re not gonna believe this but. . .” and the ... Keep Reading 'Twas the day after Christmas . . . Now go do something! Dec 28, 2016 Posted By Dr. Beau Sasser Growing up in my house, December 26th looked a little like a circus troupe the morning after the Big Show; my mother started packing up and moving decorations out at dawn. The boxes that littered the living room were not beautifully wrapped and nestled under a well-adorned tree anymore; instead, I awoke to a cornucopia of Tupperware bins and half-dented cardboard boxes haphazardly labeled, ... Keep Reading Community Acquired MRSA: That ain't no spider bite! Dec 7, 2016 Posted By Dr. Beau Sasser “The itsy bitsy spider crawled up the waterspout; down came the rain and washed the spider out.” Recently, a colleague of mine and I were discussing all the crazy things we have seen in our years of practice, recounting the infamous precursor to most trauma incidents: “Hey guys, watch this!” After we both ran the gamut of one-upping each other, there was a pause in the ... Keep Reading Tips on Running Shoes for the Average Joe Nov 17, 2016 Posted By Dr. Beau Sasser Many runners have told me that one of the best aspects of running is that it is not dependent on a team or equipment. All you need to run is a pair of shoes, and in some places, you don’t even need those. Unlike other sports, running does seem to be an activity unencumbered by such trappings, which is likely why its popularity has risen so dramatically over the years. But when your sport is ... Keep Reading ACL Part I: Injuries Oct 27, 2016 Posted By Dr. Beau Sasser Participation in sports has grown exponentially in the United States. The advent of Title IX in 1972 nearly doubled the number of athletes in our country’s high schools and colleges in the last four decades, and athletics has become more accessible to all people in general. With the increase in sports participation, there has also been a rise in anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tears. The ... Keep Reading The Scoop on Sports Concussion Oct 6, 2016 Posted By Dr. Beau Sasser ased on data from the Centers for Disease Control (CDC), approximately 200,000 people in the United States suffer a concussion while playing sports every year. Concussions can occur in any sport and affect all athletes. Concussions, also known as mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI), have recently made headlines with reports about returning to play too soon. There have also been reports of long term ... Keep Reading So you're really gonna run up that thing? - Training Tips to survive a 5K Sep 15, 2016 Posted By Dr. Beau Sasser And I would I could know what swimmeth below when the tide comes in On the length and the breadth of the marvelous marshes of Glynn. ~ Sidney Lanier, “Hymns of the Marshes” I thought I would get up and running (pun intended) by discussing one of the hardest races around and give a little advice on how to finish it on your two feet instead of curling up into a ball and rolling downhill. ... Keep Reading How many steps have you taken? Aug 24, 2016 Posted By Dr. Beau Sasser Two roads diverged in a wood, and I— I took the one less traveled by, And that has made all the difference. ~Robert Frost Every time I read this poem, I imagine a solitary traveler, walking stick in hand, standing by a split rail fence somewhere in North Georgia. Two paths cross one another. One is a little overgrown with laurel and fiddle head fern covered with dew, making it the more ... Keep Reading Role of the athletic trainer: An athlete's best friend Aug 3, 2016 Posted By Dr. Beau Sasser efore I discuss the role of the Certified Athletic Trainer (ATC), I think it is important for the reader to realize the significance of the ATC. In a report by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association, only 55 percent of athletes at public schools have access to a full-time athletic trainer. Most school administrators, especially after the recent recession, cite lack of funding. Yet a ... Keep Reading Helpful Steps to Prevent Heat Illness Jul 13, 2016 Posted By Dr. Beau Sasser “Summertime and the livin’ is easy. The fish are jumpin’ and the cotton is high.” ~George Gershwin This quote always reminds me of a romanticized summer full of lazy days and gentle breezes blowing in from the shore. Here in South Georgia, we are lucky to experience that day just once or twice a year. Summer days in Georgia are hot. Most often, they are a sticky, wet, wool ... Keep Reading Do I have to go to Physical Therapy? Jun 15, 2016 Posted By Dr. Beau Sasser If you ask any of my patients, my friends and especially my wife and kids, they will all tell you I am a talker. I love to go through a diagnosis with a patient and make a game plan of how to attack the problem. So for me it becomes quite awkward, that pregnant pause in the conversation when I say, “So let’s get you in some therapy,” and all of a sudden I hear crickets. My ... Keep Reading Everything in Moderation May 9, 2016 Posted By Dr. Beau Sasser This is my first blog, and all the election-year campaigning has inspired me to begin this post with my own platform. It is constructed from both my personal experiences and those of the multitudes who have shuffled through the doors of my clinic over the last decade. The best professional advice I can give to you can be expressed in a single word: moderation. Too much or too little of anything is ... Keep Reading
