Seventy percent of healthy professional and collegiate hockey players had abnormal hip and pelvis MRIs (magnetic resonance imaging), even though they had no symptoms of injury, according to a study presented today at the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine’s Specialty Day in New Orleans, (March 13). The study’s surprising findings could serve as a warning for surgeons to not depend excessively on imaging when diagnosing patients.
(PRWeb March 13, 2010)
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