Dr. Frank Noyes was selected to lecture at the Frontiers in Sports Medicine: The Athlete in 2002. Topics included ACL reconstruction in the skeletally immature athlete, the treatment of varus angulated anterior cruciate ligament-deficient knee, and posterior cruciate ligament reconstruction: tibial onlay versus tibial tunnel techniques. The course was attended by 200 orthopaedic surgeons and professionals in Colorado.

Dr. Frank Noyes and Dr. Thomas Lindenfeld lectured at this yearÕs Annual Meeting of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. The event, held in Dallas, Texas, drew more than 10,000 orthopaedic surgeons and research professionals. Dr. Noyes gave three instructional course lectures on the topics of anterior and posterior cruciate ligament injuries and treatments. Dr. Lindenfeld gave two instruction course lectures on the topics of meniscal repair and the treatment of posterolateral and lateral ligament knee injuries.

The sports medicine research efforts of Dr. Marc Galloway resulted in the publication of five articles in respected orthopaedic publications.

In the December ‘01 edition of the American Journal of Sports Medicine, Dr. Marc Galloway released the findings of a study that looked at low back pain in athletes. “In working with college and high school athletes, it is important to not only manage sports injuries but to also understand how they occur and how to prevent them,” said Dr. Galloway. “Our findings suggest that even among highly motivated athletes eager to return to their sport, those athletes with prior back injuries were at a significantly higher risk for reinjury even after their symptoms had resolved. This study suggests that we may not understand the causes of low back pain and we may not be rehabilitating them as well as we think we are.” Dr. Galloway completed work on this study while team physician for Yale University. Dr. Galloway continues his commitment to athletes locally as the team physician at Princeton High School.

In addition to the back injury study, Dr. Galloway’s sports medicine research efforts also included the publication of four articles regarding the knee this year.

Dr. Michelle Andrews is the author of a chapter of a book just released on the latest information regarding female sports injuries. “In Women’s Sports Medicine and Rehabilitation” is the most comprehensive textbook on this subject, currently available. Dr. Andrews, who wrote a chapter on knee injuries in female athletes, was chosen because of her work at Cincinnati Sportsmedicine, as a member of the board of the Women’s Sports Foundation and as the knee expert while she was at Johns Hopkins University. Dr. Andrews says it is an honor to be included in the book. “The book covers all aspects of injuries frequently seen in the female athlete,” said Dr. Andrews. “It is a wonderful resource for any medical professional or coach’s library.” Dr. Andrews was also recently re-elected to the Medical Executive Committee at Deaconess Hospital.

The Importance of Physical Activity in Maintaining Health and Function by Marc Galloway, MD & Peter Jokl, MD. View Entire Publication from Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons

The lead article in this month’s The American Journal of Sports Medicine is a comprehensive reliability review of Cincinnati Sportsmedicine’s Cincinnati Knee Rating System. “The Cincinnati Knee Rating System is probably one of the top five significant contributions made by Dr. Frank Noyes to orthopaedics,” explained Sue Barber-Westin, Director of Clinical Studies. “The Knee Rating System allows patients and surgeons to grade the results of knee ligament reconstruction. This study shows that our knee rating system is the only system that has been proven to be reliable and valid from over 40 systems which have been published.”

At the Noyes/Giannestras Biomechanics Laboratories at the University of Cincinnati College of Engineering, tissue engineer and biomechanist David L.Butler, PhD, in collaboration with Dr. Frank Noyes, is conducting basic science research which will improve the body as ability to repair injured tendons.

Tendons are throughout our body, connecting muscle to bone. When tendons are injured, explained Dr. Butler, the body tries to heal them by forming scar tissue which is not the same as normal tendon tissue. This can result in chronic tendinitis, pain, and a weak structure that is susceptible to further injury. The goal of this research is to develop and implant specific cells into the injured portion of the tendon which would help it heal with nearly normal tendon tissue, not scar tissue.

Dr. Butler presented this ongoing cellular research at the Bioengineering Section of the National Academy of Engineering’s annual meeting this fall in Washington D.C. He is nationally and internationally known in the field of tissue engineering.

The September issue of The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery published the work of Dr. Mark Siegel and former fellow Marc Rubman, MD. The two collaborated with the National Institute on Occupational Safety and Health (NIOSH) to determine whether the isolation gowns worn by doctors during surgery met recommended CO2 levels. They found that each of the five manufacturer brands tested exceeded the normal CO2 gas level inside the surgical hoods. They hope this study will encourage manufacturers to make safer gowns.