Dr. Beau Sasser's Sports Medicine Blog The Benefits of Man's Best Friend Sep 21, 2018 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System “Dogs do speak, but only to those who know how to listen.” ~ Orhan Pamuk, My name is Red I have a million pet stories. Probably because I’ve had a million pets growing up, which has continued into my adulthood. My mother and Aunt Peggy say it’s because there is an animal fairy that shuttles them my way. Growing up, my house was full of the requisite cats and dogs, as well ... Keep Reading Let Them Play Aug 21, 2018 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System Just play. Have fun. Enjoy the game. ~Michael Jordan Sports teach you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose—it teaches you about life. ~Billie Jean King Dear Parents, I am writing this blog while I sit in my rental car and watch one of my boys at a college division 1 soccer camp. This is a recurring theme in my life, sitting ... Keep Reading Whatcha Readin': The Importance of Brain Reps Jul 25, 2018 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System “ ‘A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies,’ said Jojen. ‘The man who never reads lives only one.’” ~George R. R. Martin, A Dance with Dragons My bedside table has seen better days. At one time, when it resided in my grandmother’s house, the brass pulls and rich, dark mahogany shined from a weekly polish with lemon scented Pledge. Nowadays, ... Keep Reading Firework Safety Jun 25, 2018 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System ** Warning ** This blog is not intended to be funny. This is purely educational. Any laughing on your part may cause the younger generation to take this topic lightly. Please discuss with your family but cover up the third and fourth paragraphs. ** Warning ** Do not try to recreate the scenes portrayed in this blog. ** Warning ** Do not discuss this with my mother. I’ll get in trouble. Every ... Keep Reading Summer Heat is Upon us May 24, 2018 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System “You are my sunshine, my only sunshine. You make me happy, when skies are gray. You’ll never notice, how much I love you. Please don’t take my sunshine away.” ~Johnny Cash Growing up on St. Simons Island in the 70’s and 80’s, I have quite a few memories that take place beginning with that rapturous moment the school bell rang for the last time, heralding that ... Keep Reading Greater Trochanteric Bursitis Apr 25, 2018 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System Hip Pain’s First Cousin I see quite a bit of hip pain in my office. Some of it is truly hip pain, and the others… well… not so much. I usually have a good idea whether the pain is really hip pain by the answer to my first question: “Where does your hip hurt?” The patient, almost in slow motion, invariably points to an area around their hip. If I’m lucky, they ... Keep Reading Have you hugged your Athletic Trainer today? Mar 14, 2018 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System First off, I want to thank all my followers for your understanding that I needed a little time off in February. What better place than a tiny (itty bitty) fishing village south of Cancun where the generator only runs for a few hours a day, the water is always lukewarm, nachos are considered a breakfast food and the fish are plentiful, but you have to throw them back. I might be a little crispy ... Keep Reading Worse, Better, or the Same? Jan 23, 2018 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System Be at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let every new year find you a better man. ~Benjamin Franklin Most of us have been brought up with the same ideas on the meaning and relevance of the New Year. The celebration crescendos in the last waning seconds of the previous year when Dick Clark, and now Ryan Seacrest, start the countdown in Times Square. The ball drops—10, 9, ... Keep Reading Giving: Good for the Body and Soul Dec 14, 2017 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System “The best way to find yourself is to lose yourself in the service of others.” ~Mahatma Gandhi “We make a living by what we get. We make a life by what we give.” ~Winston Churchill My Grandmother Frances shouldn’t have lived as long as she did. She was born in the generation when Ronald Reagan thought it was a good idea to send out a pack of Chesterfield cigarettes to ... Keep Reading Play it safe this Thanksgiving Nov 16, 2017 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System “There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American.” ~O. Henry “Thanksgiving dinners take eighteen hours to prepare. They are consumed in twelve minutes. Half-times take twelve minutes. This is not coincidence.” ~Erma Bombeck I hold a record of sorts. Not a World Record—nothing prestigious, like most snails on face or fastest ... Keep Reading Aww, man, I got a rock . . . or Halloween tips for a Ghoulish good time Oct 24, 2017 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System Hold on, man! We don’t go anywhere with “scary,” “spooky,” “haunted,” or “forbidden” in the title! ~Shaggy From Scooby Doo With Halloween right around the corner, the mad rush to find a unique costume is about to commence. Be sure to get yours before the choices get lean and all that’s left are the throwback characters like Raggedy Ann or ... Keep Reading Sportsmanship 101: Let them play Sep 21, 2017 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System One man practicing sportsmanship is far better than a hundred teaching it. ~Knute Rockne It was the summer of 81’. The game was coming to a close, and the sun was starting to set over Mallory Park while that brilliant afternoon heat baked our dugout. To a certain degree, the game paralleled that famous scene in, "Casey At The Bat." Like the team in Mudville, we were losing (we were ... Keep Reading One Pound at a Time: Healthy Eating 101 Aug 15, 2017 Posted By Southeast Georgia Health System Maitre D: And finally, monsieur, a wafer thin mint. Mr. Creosote: I couldn’t eat another thing. I’m absolutely stuffed. ~“Monty Python’s The Meaning of Life” It’s not hard to see how eating habits in America have spiraled out of control, and I’m not talking about the plethora of all-u-can-eat buffets at every highway exit. If you’re getting in line ... Keep Reading 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 31 Result(s) Page 1 of 2 1 2 Next
