“The future of women's sports medicine is multidisciplinary,” says Miho Tanaka, M.D., Ph.D.

Miho Tanaka, M.D., Ph.D., orthopedic surgeon with a speciality in sports medicine, joins us to discuss injury prevention, stretching, and muscle balance, plus: 

- How to prevent injury (~2:30)

- Stretching (~4:42)

- Increasing load without injury (~6:41)

- Common risks of injury (~8:20)

- ACL injuries (~10:50)

- Muscle balance (~11:45)

- Gender differences in injury (~15:37)

- Sports and injury (~16:15)

- Achilles injuries (~17:10)

- Women in orthopedics and sports medicine (~21:15) 

- Tanaka’s dream study (~24:55) 

- Hormones and injury (~24:00)

- Recovery (~30:30)

- Treatment for female athletes (~31:54)

- Recovery times (~33:43)

- Nutrition for injury prevention and recovery (~37:20)

- Tanaka’s recommendations (~38:33)

- The future of sports medicine (~39:35)

Referenced in the episode: 

- Learn more about Tanaka (https://drmihotanaka.com/) 

- Follow her on Instagram (mihotanakamd) 

- Check out her research (https://drmihotanaka.com/research) 

- Research on relaxin and ACL injuries (DOI: 10.1016/j.knee.2008.09.005) 

- Research on oral contraceptives and ACL injury (DOI: 10.1016/j.arthro.2020.12.063) 

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