June 2010

Clinical Focus: Orthopedics and Ligament Injuries
Submission deadline: 5/05/2010
Fast-Track deadline: 5/15/2010
Published: 6/15/2010
Bonus distribution:
American Orthopedics Society for Sports Medicine Annual Meeting, Providence, RI (July 15-18, 2010)

• Stress fractures and treatment
• Clavicle injuries
• Emergency preparedness before sporting events
• Seasonal injuries (football, hockey, basketball, baseball, and soccer)
• Effects of strenuous exercise on Achilles tendon
• Hip muscles in lower body injuries
• Exercise practices for young children
• Spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis
• Management of back pain
• Multiligament knee injuries
• Treatment options for tendon inflammation and instability
• Scoliosis in young athletes
• Ankle instability
• ACL injuries
• Meniscus tear in combination with an ACL tear
• Nonoperative and operative treatment options for ACL tears
• ACL reconstruction
• Superimpose x rays for evaluation of extreme ankle and foot motion
• Skin cancer and sunblock
• Locker room infections
• Obesity and duration of recovery from orthopedic injury
• Shoulder problems in professional athletes (rotator cuff)
• Shoulder instability in athletes
• Rehabilitation
• Hylan G-F20 and corticosteroids
• Exercise after joint replacement surgery
• Controlling inflammation after surgery
• Use of pain pumps, devices for stabilization and preservation, bone void fillers
• Degenerative knee osteoarthritis
• Symptomatic snapping hip
• Bone density after menopause
• Managing the elderly athlete

October 2010

Clinical Focus: Neurology, Stroke, Rehabilitation Medicine/ Emergency Medicine, Cardiometabolic Health
Submission deadline: 9/05/2010
Fast-Track deadline: 9/15/2010
Published: 10/15/2010
Bonus distribution:
American College of Gastroenterology Annual Scientific Meeting, San Antonio, TX (October 15-20, 2010)
American Heart Association, Chicago, IL (November 13-17, 2010)

• Neurology and Stroke
  • Postconcussive outcomes in athletes
  • Peroneal nerve injuries/palsy
  • Exercise and Parkinson's disease
  • Boxing-related neurological injuries
  • Reduction in incident stroke risk with physical activity
• Rehabilitation Medicine/Emergency Medicine
  • Sport and recreation related injuries/fracture
  • Recognizing symptoms of concussion/trauma during sports event
  • Sports dentistry
• Cardiometabolic Health
  • Obesity and diabetes in sports medicine
  • Athletes and vitamin D
  • Omega-3 fatty acids (over the counters vs subscriptions)
  • IBS and nutrition
  • Bone health in patients with gastrointestinal disorders
  • Malabsorption and nutrition intake/electrolytes/fluids
  • Malabsorption and high fructose intake
• Using erythropoietin to increase performance
• Adherence after gastric bypass surgery and exercise
• Exercises to help manage neck pain
• Myotonia congenita
• Spinal disc herniation
• Steroid-induced osteoporosis in men
• On-the-field injury treatment
• Return-to-play strategies
• Water sports injuries
• Post-transplant patients and exercise

December 2010

Clinical Focus: Respiratory Medicine
Submission deadline: 11/05/2010
Fast-Track deadline: 11/15/2010
Published: 12/15/2010
Bonus distribution:
American Association for Respiratory Care Convention, Las Vegas, NV (December 06-09, 2010)
American Heart Association, Chicago, IL (November 13-17, 2010)

• Asthma and the athlete
  • Vocal cord dysfunction
  • Exercise-induced asthma
  • Exercise-induced bronchospasm
• COPD
  • Obesity and COPD
  • Relationship between COPD and nutrition intake
• Treatment options for steroid-induced osteoporosis in men
• Treatments for asthma
  • Bronchodilators, anticholinergics
  • Corticosteroids
  • Metered-dose vs other types of inhalers
• Respiratory infections in winter sports athletes
• Asthma in elite athletes
• Pulmonary rehabilitation and physical activity
• Fitness and long-term oxygen therapy/lung transplantation
• Airflow function and the metabolic syndrome