Sports Medicine

A Look at the Evolution of Football Injuries

September 10, 2019

TOA recently sat down with Field Scovell, MD of the Carrell Clinic in Frisco and Shane Miller, MD of Texas Scottish Rite Hospital for Children in Frisco to take a look at the evolution of football injuries and their treatment. The following is TOA’s conversation. TOA: Have you and your colleagues changed the way that…

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TOA Sports Bill to Protect Out-of-State Team Physicians

April 2, 2019

The Texas Orthopaedic Association will speak in support of Rep. Bobby Guerra’s legislation – HB 2299 – which would protect out-of-state team physicians when they travel with their teams to Texas. The bill would direct the Texas Medical Board to recognize the out-of-state licenses for those physicians while they are assisting their teams for competitions…

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Texas Medical Board Approves Protections for Team Physicians

June 15, 2018

The 2019 Texas Legislature approved HB 2299, which directs the Texas Medical Board (TMB) to recognize the out-of-state licenses for team physicians when they staff their teams for competitions in Texas. State Representative Bobby Guerra and State Senator Charles Schwertner, MD worked with TOA to pass this legislation. Click here to read the provision in…

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TOA & AAOS Support Texas Medical Board’s Team Physician Proposal

April 20, 2018

Andrew Palafox, MD of the Texas Orthopaedic Association and David Halsey, MD of the American Association of Orthopaedic Surgeons submitted a letter to the Texas Medical Board in support of its proposed rule that would recognize the out-of-state licenses of team physicians when they travel with their teams to Texas for athletic competitions. The move…

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