Sports Injury Prevention and Management - Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon Mr Akash Patel

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Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon Mr Akash Patel provides person-centred, practical advice for longevity, injury prevention and mindfulness. He talks about compound/isolated exercise, dynamic/static stretching, balance training and their role in injury prevention. Mr Patel shares simple and easy methods to identify injuries rapidly. As a Surgeon in London, he breaks down the critical success factors in his everyday routine to battle long and high-stress working hours. The top non-operative and operative management modalities regarding common Orthopaedic injuries are also discussed (Meniscus tears, ACL tears, and Osteoarthritis). 

Mr Akash Patel is a Consultant Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgeon at the Royal Free Hospital in London, a distinguished and prized researcher and associate professor at UCL. Mr Patel has a keen interest in sports, exercise and surgical education.

Timestamps:
00:00 Coming up
00:34 Intro
3:05 Why Orthopaedics 
11:00 3 characteristics of Orthopaedic surgeons
12:50 Coping with longs Hours and high stress 
20:14 Maintaining a healthy physical lifestyle 
24:05 Principles for sports injury prevention 
30:24 Osteoarthritis
31:19 Sports-Specific Training 
36:19 Compound Vs Isolated Exercise
40:34 Dynamic Vs Static Stretching
43:00 Personal experience of back injury 
44:20 Going to the gym with no experience 
45:00 Is “No pain, No Gain” a Myth?
50:20 Advice to the Elderly
53:30 Common Orthopaedic Injuries and Treatment 
1:00:58 Stem cells, PRP and Hyaluronic acid
1:02:28 Types of Orthopaedic surgeries and their success rates

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