This week from Dr. Cerami and Utah Sports and Wellness   From: Journal of the American Osteopathic Association, October 2017   Quick Summary: Concussions represent almost 9% of all injuries in high school athletics. This study was performed to determine whether female athletes in middle school and high school with a first time, sports related [...]

This week from Dr. Cerami and Utah Sports and Wellness   From: Acta Neuropathology, March 2017   Quick Summary: These authors followed 14 retired soccer players with dementia regularly for 30 years until their deaths. All were skilled headers of the ball and had played soccer for an average of 26 years. Six of these [...]

This week from Dr. Cerami and Utah Sports and Wellness   From: Canadian Medical Association Journal, July 1958   Quick Summary: These physicians describe how manipulation can provide back pain relief, even to those patients whom have failed to respond to routine medical treatment. Most symptoms that will respond to manipulation are due to the presence [...]

This week from Dr. Cerami and Utah Sports and Wellness   From: British Medical Journal, February 2018   Quick Summary: This study was the first to evaluate the association between the consumption of ultra-processed food products and the incidence of cancer, specifically breast, prostate and colorectal cancer. The authors calculated the percentage of the participant’s diet [...]

This week from Dr. Cerami and Utah Sports and Wellness   From: Neurology, October 2016   Quick Summary: This study included 700 Swedish women aged 70-92 years old with a 5-year follow up to determine whether calcium supplementation is associated with the development of dementia. Dementia and osteoporosis are leading causes of disability in the [...]

This week from Dr. Cerami and Utah Sports and Wellness   From: Spine Journal, December 2017 Quick Summary: Chiropractic use among US adults is growing rapidly with back and neck pain as the top reasons for treatment. A majority of chiropractic patients reported that treatment not only helped with their initial reason for care but [...]

This week from Dr. Cerami and Utah Sports and Wellness   From: Journal of Manipulative and Physiological Therapeutics, November/December 2010 Quick Summary: With about 70% to 85% of Americans experiencing back pain at some point in their lives, chances are there will come a time when you will be looking for treatment options. This study [...]

By: Dr. Michael Cerami, D.C. Injuries can be a real problem for the beginner or advanced runner. Because there are many causes of injuries, you can save yourself some time and money if, before you self-treat, you accurately assess what you are experiencing. The athlete should first observe the problem with a few things in [...]

This week from Dr. Cerami and Utah Sports and Wellness   From: Applied Ergonomics, January 2017 Quick Summary: In this study, we look at young adults aged 20-24 years to examine the correlation between texting and musculoskeletal disorders. In the United States, text messaging is the most frequently used type of communicative medium. The physical [...]

This week from Dr. Cerami and Utah Sports and Wellness   From: British Journal of Sports Medicine, March 2018 Quick Summary: Approximately 25% of people older than 50 years’ experience pain from degenerative knee disease. The most common procedure for this is arthroscopic knee surgery, with more than 2 million surgeries performed each year globally. [...]