(Dr. Scott Rodeo is the Head Team Physician for the New York Giants) The most important testing at the NFL Scouting Combine this week may actually take place two miles away from Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis. Before the draft prospects step onto the field for the 40-yard dash, they’ll undergo an extensive medical evaluation […]
Houston Texans’ Walt Lowe Named Outstanding NFL Team Physician of the Year March 1, 2018 (Indianapolis, IN)—The NFL Physicians Society (NFLPS) congratulates Dr. Walt Lowe, M.D., for being recognized as Outstanding NFL Team Physician by the Professional Football Athletic Trainers Society (PFATS). The NFLPS held its annual Scientific Meeting and Symposium during the NFL Scouting […]
Colts’ Dave Hammer Named Outstanding NFL Athletic Trainer of the Year NFL Physicians Society Bestows Fain-Cain Award March 1, 2018 (Indianapolis, IN)— Dave Hammer, Head Athletic Trainer for the Indianapolis Colts, was selected to receive the prestigious Fain-Cain Memorial Award for Outstanding NFL Athletic Trainer of the Year from the NFL Physicians Society (NFLPS). The […]
MINNEAPOLIS (AP) — For those who think game plans and play calls are complex, it would be helpful to take a behind-the-scenes look at the medical setups that go into an NFL game. Talk about multi-faceted. The league provided such an opportunity at US Bank Stadium this week, and it was enlightening. From the spotters’ […]
MINNEAPOLIS – The NFL cares about player safety. Really. Criticized heavily throughout the season for some high-profile failures of its concussion protocol, the NFL countered by taking a handful of reporters on a behind-the-scenes tour of its game-day medical procedures. From the communication between the spotters in the booth and the sidelines to whether coaches […]
MINNEAPOLIS — The NFL will have four independent concussion specialists on hand for Super Bowl LII, the result of multiple changes to its protocol over the course of the 2017 season. The first iteration of the NFL’s current policy, established in 2014, placed one unaffiliated neurological consultant — known as a “UNC” — on each […]
If the NFL is serious about caring for potentially concussed players, why doesn’t it remove ultimate return-to-play decision-making from the team’s doctor, and so empower the unaffiliated neurotrauma consultant assigned to every sideline? Critics of the NFL’s sincerity in concussion management often ask this. And indeed, it would seem to make the most sense, as […]
(Neal ElAttrache is Head Team Physician for the Los Angeles Rams and is a voting member of the NFL Physicians Society) Was it the avocado ice cream? The electrolytes? The gallons of water he consumes daily? Nope. It was the tape, a big hunk of black tape, that helped Tom Brady play in the AFC […]
(Dr. Muntz is a team internist for the Houston Texans and serves on the board of the NFL Physicians Society) Alonzo Powell cannot wait to be a Giant. He grew up in the foggy Ingleside neighborhood of San Francisco. He played ball at Lincoln High, and stood in the patchy grass one day when Barry […]
(Dr. James Bradley is a former President of the NFL Physicians Society and current Head Team Physician for the Pittsburgh Steelers.) While details of Carson Wentz’s knee operation and its aftermath remain a mystery, shrouded by HIPAA restrictions as well as by the NFL’s obsession for secrecy, his surgeon’s identity makes it likely no cutting-edge […]