When I started creating a new website for Southwest Sports Medicine I wanted to improve our Patient Education. Our new website has just that, animated videos of any orthopaedic elbow, shoulder or knee condition/ procedure.
Check them out on our NEW website:
http://mattalinoorthopaedics.com/education.html
Friday, March 26, 2010
Monday, March 15, 2010
Check out our NEW WEBSITE!!
Southwest Sports Medicine & Orthopaedic Surgery Clinic has a NEW WEBSITE. The new site contains updated pratice information and an extensive amount of patient education.
Check it out!!
www.mattalinoorthopaedics.com
Check it out!!
www.mattalinoorthopaedics.com
Tuesday, March 9, 2010
Your Catholic Priest: Fr. Thaddeus McGuire -- Love for Eucharist, parents’ example inspire priesthood
FR. THADDEUS MCGUIRE
Love for Eucharist, parents’ example inspire priesthood
The first thing a visitor to Fr. Thaddeus McGuire’s office notices is a long, rectangular table laden with holy cards, framed portraits of the saints, holy books and a single, illuminated candle.
This priest is passionate about spreading the Gospel. He wants to pray and inspire, but most of all he wants others to know that the Eucharist stands at the center of the Catholic faith.
He wears the cord of St. Philomena about his waist and has fervor for telling others of the third-century virgin martyr’s powerful intercession. He credits his parents with enkindling in him a love for the Eucharist.
Fr. McGuire grew up in Ohio as one of eight children in a devout Catholic family that made it a priority to attend the first Mass every Sunday morning.
“We always sat right up front and we were always the last people in the church, too,” Fr. McGuire said. “My parents would make an act of thanksgiving. That really did have an impact on me.”
The McGuire family had a sturdy devotional life, too, praying the rosary on car trips and making the Stations of Cross during Lent.
After earning an MBA, Fr. McGuire worked for five years with a consulting firm and traveled to many major cities in the United States, often testifying as an expert witness.
When he was 30, he began to think seriously about the priesthood. He found himself doing a lot of spiritual reading, learning about the lives of the saints and wanting to receive the Eucharist daily. He also discovered a desire to serve somewhere apart from family and friends so as to better discern what God wanted for his life.
He wound up spending three years working among the poor in Jamaica with the Mustard Seed Communities, an apostolate in the Archdiocese of Kingston. Amidst vermin and the absence of running water, he lived humbly, praying and working alongside the people of the tiny island nation.
He eventually approached the bishop of Mandeville about becoming a priest and was sent to study in Rome at the Angelicum, where he earned a licentiate in sacred theology.
With Phoenix growing steadily, the need for priests in the United States became apparent and he was ordained for the Phoenix Diocese in 1999. Fr.
McGuire became pastor of St. Daniel the Prophet Parish five years ago and said he loves being a spiritual father to his parishioners.
His love for the Eucharist means that the children who attend the parish school attend Mass daily. “It has been a huge blessing in leading the children in our school to a great love for our eucharistic Lord,” he said.
While serving at Corpus Christi parish a few years back, someone gave him a book about St. Philomena and told him, “St. John Vianney and St. Philomena have a lot in store for you.”
Since then, he has helped spread devotion to the saint and serves as the spiritual director for the arch-confraternity of St. Philomena for the western United States. He said the saint’s intercession is powerful and has led to many healings and prayers answered.
What are you passionate about as a priest?
The Eucharist. This is the Church’s thinking: the extent to which we come to love, appreciate and hunger for the Eucharist — everything else springs from that. In the Eucharist, we encounter the face of Christ. That’s what we were created for — to see God face to face. And in the Mass, through God’s word and the gift of the Blessed Sacrament, we come to see the face of our Lord Jesus more clearly. Doing that enables us to see the face of Christ and to encounter Christ truly present in our brothers and sisters. It’s not by accident that we hear time and time again that the Eucharist is the source and summit of our faith life.
Did someone invite you to consider the priesthood?
No. I would say it was the great high priest our Lord Jesus and my personal prayer with Him. I don’t have any memory of anyone ever saying that to me. I think every young man says, ‘I wonder what it’s like to be a priest?’ My mom and dad never encouraged or discouraged us in terms of any vocation or profession. It was a progressive journey to the priesthood.
What can families do to encourage more vocations to the priesthood?
Moms and dads, through their word and example, how they witness to their children their appreciation for the gift of our faith and the way in which they invest themselves in the practice of it by attending the perfect prayer of the Mass regularly and joyfully and with grateful hearts. By their participating in the Mass and in serving their local parish community and beyond — that’s the way.
By Joyce Coronel
Feb. 16, 2010
The Catholic Sun
http://www.catholicsun.org/2010/february/16/ycp-mcguire.html
Thursday, March 4, 2010
Olympic Training to Become Doctors, Professors
Olympic athletes can discover that they retire from the sport that has consumed their lives at an age when most people are just starting out in their careers. Winning medals was just the end of the first act for the following athletes. In their post-Olympic careers, they didn't simply discard one career for the next. They've found ways to apply their experiences as athletes to become better at their new jobs.
Eric Heiden
Hometown: Madison, Wis.
Olympic Games: Innsbruck 1976, Lake Placid 1980 in speed skating.
Second Career: Chairman of the department of surgery Intermountain Healthcare in Park City, Utah.
Long Midwestern winters brought out the best in Eric Heiden, who was recognized as a good hockey player around the neighborhood. But it was his speed-skating that really made him stand out. His coach, Dianne Holum, was an Olympic medalist who drove him to train five hours a day. The schedule netted Mr. Heiden a string of racing victories and a spot on the junior world championship team at 17.
He went on to compete in the 1976 Innsbruck Olympics in Austria. He didn't medal, finishing seventh in the 1,500 meter and nineteenth in the 5,000 meter.
He was more determined to win in the following year, where he became the first American to win the World Speedskating Championship. He captured the title in 1978 and 1979, setting the stage for the Lake Placid Olympics. "I wasn't super confident I was going to [win] gold," says Mr. Heiden. "But once you get the first medal under your belt, it opens the floodgates and allows you to focus."
He ended up sweeping every individual event, winning an unprecedented five gold medals. He also broke five Olympic records and one world record. The skating world was stunned when he retired shortly afterward. At 21, he felt he was ready to move on. "I wanted to get back to school and try something else," he says.
Hunting for his next challenge, Mr. Heiden, scaled back on his pre-med schedule at Stanford University so he could become a professional cyclist. He won the U.S. Cycling Championship in 1985. He also captained the 7-Eleven Cycling Team, which became the first American team to be invited to the Tour de France in 1986. He crashed within sight of Paris on the final mountain stage.
Mr. Heiden finished his medical degree at Stanford University in 1991, and went on to become an orthopedic surgeon. He is currently a partner at the Orthopedic Specialty Clinic in Salt Lake City, where he specializes in ACL reconstruction and arthroscopic surgery. He has treated speed skater Apolo Ohno and Cadel Evans, a pro cyclist. Mr. Heiden, now 52, is also acting medical director for the U.S. Speedskating and Cycling Teams, and is on call in Vancouver.
He often calls on his sporting days to treat patients. "Being an athlete, I see athletes feel confident that I understand where they're coming from," he says.
Debi Thomas
Hometown: San Jose, Calif.
Olympic Games: Calgary 1988 in figure skating.
Second Career: Orthopedic surgeon.
Most aspiring figure skaters live and breathe the sport, but Debi Thomas never wanted to give up her dream of going to medical school. "People used to tell me that you can't win World [Figure Skating Championships] and go to Stanford at the same time. Of course, the more they said 'impossible,' the more I wanted to prove them wrong," she says. Indeed, Ms. Thomas was the first African-American figure skater to win the U.S. National and the World Championships—all while going to school.
Ms. Thomas went into the 1988 Olympics in Calgary with high expectations. She had repeatedly fought for the World Championship title with East German skater Katarina Witt, and their rivalry was billed by the media as the "battle of the Carmens" since both women planned to skate their long routines to Bizet's tragic opera. She says she didn't have the right mindset going into the competition and had lost confidence at the last minute. She had even considering quitting. "Even if you're well trained and you're physically ready for a competition, your body is not always going to go out there and perform," she says.
She faltered early in her free skating routine after two-footing a landing on a combination. She never recovered, winning a bronze behind Elizabeth Manley and gold winner Katarina Witt. It was a very disappointing loss, she says. She had planned to retire from skating whether she won or not. "Knowing I had my medical career to look forward to made it easier to take," says Ms. Thomas, who graduated from Northwestern University's medical school in 1997.
Specializing in adult reconstructive surgery, Ms. Thomas works as an orthopedic surgeon at the Bone and Joint Center in Terre Haute, Ind. The 42-year-old says her days as a skater provide her with helpful insight in diagnosing patients with sports-related problems.
"Figure skating was a pretty individual sport," she says. "I've grown up a lot since those days and enjoy being part of a team now. Being a doctor is about working with nurses, therapists, anesthesiologists, and I've learned more about team play being a doctor than when I was in sports."
Karlos Kirby
Hometown: Des Moines, Iowa
Olympic Games: Albertville 1992; Lillehammer 1994 in bobsled.
Second Career: College professor and Navy reserve officer
A three-time All-American track and field star and a talented football tailback, Karlos Kirby had his pick of 35 colleges. He gave up his scholarship at Long Beach State University to become an Olympic bobsledder.
He had been fascinated by the sport since seeing it on television. Something just clicked, he says. "I had to give it a shot." He persuaded the executive director of the U.S. National Bobsled Team to give him to tryout in Lake Placid.
At 5-foot-10 and 175 lbs, Mr. Kirby says he was smaller than many competitors at the tryout. Mr. Kirby failed to impress on his first day of fitness testing. The coach told him he could go home.
"I didn't know if I'd make the team, but wasn't going home until I finished," says Mr. Kirby, who returned on the second day. By the end of the year, he was one of the top three pushers in the U.S.
After transferring to the University of New Mexico in 1989, Mr. Kirby completed his bachelor's in University Studies, a multidisciplinary degree, and his master's in physical education.
Five years and five U.S. National Push Championships later, Mr. Kirby competed in his first Olympics in Albertville, France, in 1992. "It was over in a flash," he says. His team finished 9th in the four-man bobsled event. He did better the following year, becoming the first American in 28 years to win a World Championship bronze medal. He didn't medal in Lillehammer in 1994 and retired.
He soon decided to return to education and has been an instructor at William Penn University, as well as Duke and Drake Universities. He's also made time for military service, as a lieutenant in the Navy Reserve. Mr. Kirby, 41, serves as a public affairs officer and is preparing for his first tour in Afghanistan, where he will be working with NATO.
By Dennis Nishi
Printed in The Wall Street Journal, Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Eric Heiden
Hometown: Madison, Wis.
Olympic Games: Innsbruck 1976, Lake Placid 1980 in speed skating.
Second Career: Chairman of the department of surgery Intermountain Healthcare in Park City, Utah.
Long Midwestern winters brought out the best in Eric Heiden, who was recognized as a good hockey player around the neighborhood. But it was his speed-skating that really made him stand out. His coach, Dianne Holum, was an Olympic medalist who drove him to train five hours a day. The schedule netted Mr. Heiden a string of racing victories and a spot on the junior world championship team at 17.
He went on to compete in the 1976 Innsbruck Olympics in Austria. He didn't medal, finishing seventh in the 1,500 meter and nineteenth in the 5,000 meter.
He was more determined to win in the following year, where he became the first American to win the World Speedskating Championship. He captured the title in 1978 and 1979, setting the stage for the Lake Placid Olympics. "I wasn't super confident I was going to [win] gold," says Mr. Heiden. "But once you get the first medal under your belt, it opens the floodgates and allows you to focus."
He ended up sweeping every individual event, winning an unprecedented five gold medals. He also broke five Olympic records and one world record. The skating world was stunned when he retired shortly afterward. At 21, he felt he was ready to move on. "I wanted to get back to school and try something else," he says.
Hunting for his next challenge, Mr. Heiden, scaled back on his pre-med schedule at Stanford University so he could become a professional cyclist. He won the U.S. Cycling Championship in 1985. He also captained the 7-Eleven Cycling Team, which became the first American team to be invited to the Tour de France in 1986. He crashed within sight of Paris on the final mountain stage.
Mr. Heiden finished his medical degree at Stanford University in 1991, and went on to become an orthopedic surgeon. He is currently a partner at the Orthopedic Specialty Clinic in Salt Lake City, where he specializes in ACL reconstruction and arthroscopic surgery. He has treated speed skater Apolo Ohno and Cadel Evans, a pro cyclist. Mr. Heiden, now 52, is also acting medical director for the U.S. Speedskating and Cycling Teams, and is on call in Vancouver.
He often calls on his sporting days to treat patients. "Being an athlete, I see athletes feel confident that I understand where they're coming from," he says.
Debi Thomas
Hometown: San Jose, Calif.
Olympic Games: Calgary 1988 in figure skating.
Second Career: Orthopedic surgeon.
Most aspiring figure skaters live and breathe the sport, but Debi Thomas never wanted to give up her dream of going to medical school. "People used to tell me that you can't win World [Figure Skating Championships] and go to Stanford at the same time. Of course, the more they said 'impossible,' the more I wanted to prove them wrong," she says. Indeed, Ms. Thomas was the first African-American figure skater to win the U.S. National and the World Championships—all while going to school.
Ms. Thomas went into the 1988 Olympics in Calgary with high expectations. She had repeatedly fought for the World Championship title with East German skater Katarina Witt, and their rivalry was billed by the media as the "battle of the Carmens" since both women planned to skate their long routines to Bizet's tragic opera. She says she didn't have the right mindset going into the competition and had lost confidence at the last minute. She had even considering quitting. "Even if you're well trained and you're physically ready for a competition, your body is not always going to go out there and perform," she says.
She faltered early in her free skating routine after two-footing a landing on a combination. She never recovered, winning a bronze behind Elizabeth Manley and gold winner Katarina Witt. It was a very disappointing loss, she says. She had planned to retire from skating whether she won or not. "Knowing I had my medical career to look forward to made it easier to take," says Ms. Thomas, who graduated from Northwestern University's medical school in 1997.
Specializing in adult reconstructive surgery, Ms. Thomas works as an orthopedic surgeon at the Bone and Joint Center in Terre Haute, Ind. The 42-year-old says her days as a skater provide her with helpful insight in diagnosing patients with sports-related problems.
"Figure skating was a pretty individual sport," she says. "I've grown up a lot since those days and enjoy being part of a team now. Being a doctor is about working with nurses, therapists, anesthesiologists, and I've learned more about team play being a doctor than when I was in sports."
Karlos Kirby
Hometown: Des Moines, Iowa
Olympic Games: Albertville 1992; Lillehammer 1994 in bobsled.
Second Career: College professor and Navy reserve officer
A three-time All-American track and field star and a talented football tailback, Karlos Kirby had his pick of 35 colleges. He gave up his scholarship at Long Beach State University to become an Olympic bobsledder.
He had been fascinated by the sport since seeing it on television. Something just clicked, he says. "I had to give it a shot." He persuaded the executive director of the U.S. National Bobsled Team to give him to tryout in Lake Placid.
At 5-foot-10 and 175 lbs, Mr. Kirby says he was smaller than many competitors at the tryout. Mr. Kirby failed to impress on his first day of fitness testing. The coach told him he could go home.
"I didn't know if I'd make the team, but wasn't going home until I finished," says Mr. Kirby, who returned on the second day. By the end of the year, he was one of the top three pushers in the U.S.
After transferring to the University of New Mexico in 1989, Mr. Kirby completed his bachelor's in University Studies, a multidisciplinary degree, and his master's in physical education.
Five years and five U.S. National Push Championships later, Mr. Kirby competed in his first Olympics in Albertville, France, in 1992. "It was over in a flash," he says. His team finished 9th in the four-man bobsled event. He did better the following year, becoming the first American in 28 years to win a World Championship bronze medal. He didn't medal in Lillehammer in 1994 and retired.
He soon decided to return to education and has been an instructor at William Penn University, as well as Duke and Drake Universities. He's also made time for military service, as a lieutenant in the Navy Reserve. Mr. Kirby, 41, serves as a public affairs officer and is preparing for his first tour in Afghanistan, where he will be working with NATO.
By Dennis Nishi
Printed in The Wall Street Journal, Tuesday, February 16, 2010
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