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UHealth – University of Miami Health System and the Miller School of Medicine push the boundaries of medical science every day. Our documentary series Breakthrough Medicine : Sports Injuries Threaten Active Futures goes inside our university-based health system to demonstrate what sets us apart. Click below to watch our patients and physicians confront real-life sports related medical challenges and to share in extraordinary triumphs as UHealth’s medical pioneers discover new solutions to improve patients’ lives and give them renewed hope.
Current guidelines and methods for treating knee and head injuries in NCAA athletes
Lee Kaplan, MD, Chief of Sports medicine at The University of Miami Health System and team doctor for the Miami Hurricanes football team discusses the state-of-the-art methods for surgically repairing torn knee meniscus injuries and for repairing torn ACL’s.
Clifton Page, MD, internists for the Miami Hurricanes football team, discusses the new guidelines for handling the return to play for athletes who have suffered a concussion, testing for sickle cell, and for monitoring heat exhaustion. (See Op-Ed How to Eliminate Head Injury in Football.
Dr.Kester Nedd Neurologist and Dr. Lee Kaplan from UHealth Sports Medicine speak about concussion management and repercussions of a traumatic brain injury on the Dan Le Batard Show on 790 AM interviewed by Jon “Stugotz” Weiner.
Dr. Kester Nedd Radio Interview 790 AM
Dr. Lee Kaplan Radio Interview 790 AM