A Busy Fall Already

The Northwest Arkansas Naturals made the playoffs, which was exciting. When you work with people for a whole season it's great to see them succeed.

My teaching trip to Hawaii was excellent as I was able to instruct representatives from Australia and New Zealand in performing my double bundle ACL reconstructions as well as hip arthroscopy. They are to say the least a very entertaining group. We were invited to travel to Australia over the winter to teach more surgeons the new and exciting techniques.

I also had the opportunity to be on the air with KREB 1190 AM. We discussed the difference between double bundle ACL reconstructions and a standard reconstruction. We also covered how to reduce your chances of injury and what exercises to do. You can find may of these exercises on Dougherty Sports Medicine's Physical Therapy page. In addition we talked about collarbone fractures and how treating them with a nail that I place inside the collarbone rather than a plate on the outside lets you get back to activity as quickly as possible without a large incision and pain from the plate when you get hit wearing shoulder pads. Probably the best feature of the nail over the plate is the amount and level of activity that you are able to get back to very quickly as you can often resume full activity in just a few days to weeks after nail insertion.

I traveled to Florida at the end of September to teach surgeons from Japan and Asia as well as serving as a laboratory instructor for the Arthroscopy Association of North America’s annual meeting, teaching hip arthroscopy to other surgeons.