TriathlonDoctor.com – Sports Medicine for Triathletes

We were interviewed a while back (March if I recall) for an article that appears in the July issue of Runner’s World magazine about how to pick a sports medicine specialist for your injury. As with most articles, the 45 minute interview was cut down to just a few paragraphs, but still a good sports [...]

I’ve had a lot of questions from athletes suffering with exercised-induced asthma about possible treatments outside of using their inhalers. One aspect I focus on is trying to reduce airway inflammation (which may lead to chronic changes in the lining of the airway). There’s some interesting research out there specifically in elite athletes that suffer [...]

Rejoice male coffee drinkers, a recent medical study looking at coffee consumption in men and their risk of developing either an aggressive or fatal form of prostate cancer was presented earlier this month at the Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research conference by researchers from Harvard Medical School and the Harvard School of Public Health. The [...]

Tiger Woods, Performance Enhancing Drugs and Platelet Rich Plasma (PRP)

The Grid Foam Roller for IT Band Pain We’ve done a review on the Grid Foam Roller from Trigger Point Therapy and have to say that we’re impressed with this new approach to foam rollers. This foam roller is much different than other traditional closed-cell foam rollers on the market, and looks like it should [...]

Triathlon Doctor Podcast #2 – May 2009 The triathlon community was shocked this month at the sudden and untimely death of former professional triathlete Steve Larsen at the young age of 39 years old. Listen to Dr John Martinez, a sports medicine doctor in San Diego, discuss Steve Larsen’s professional athletic career as well as [...]

Triathlon Doctor Podcast #1 – April 2009 Our first TriathlonDoctor.com podcast kicks off with San Diego sports doctor John Martinez discussing a recent study presented at the American College of Cardiology annual meeting that found that triathletes have a higher risk of having a fatal cardiac event during a triathlon than marathon runners do during [...]