Dr. Colvin comments on the orthopaedic implications of increasing the length of the NFL season

Posted by on Sep 16, 2010 in Dr. Alexis C. Colvin, Health | No Comments
Dr. Colvin comments on the orthopaedic implications of increasing the length of the NFL season

“Whenever you have a collision sport like football, it’s inevitable something’s going to happen because you are contacting other athletes at high impact,” said Dr. Alexis Chiang Colvin, an orthopedic surgeon specializing in sports medicine at New York’s Mount Sinai School of Medicine. “I don’t think it’s unusual that any of those injuries happened. But because they all clustered together in the same week, it did seem a little bit unusual.