This is not how the patient – a male in his late 20s – intended his day to go: He was competing in an off-road motorcycle race that involved catapulting...

The price of lifting too heavy an object too high overhead was, for this 68-year-old female, a massive rotator cuff tear in one shoulder. She was a few years younger...

Recreational water-skiing is punishing enough on the body. But step up to competition level, and the stresses and strains affecting ligaments, bones and joints multiply many-fold – as do the...

At 20, this University of Nevada Reno student clearly had a promising career ahead of her as a competitive swimmer. Until, that is, a mishap in the pool one day...