{"id":1694,"date":"2006-10-25T10:16:26","date_gmt":"2006-10-25T18:16:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/wordpress\/archives\/2006\/10\/that_doctors_yacht_is_brought_to_you_by_your_knees.html"},"modified":"2006-10-25T10:16:26","modified_gmt":"2006-10-25T18:16:26","slug":"that_doctors_ya","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/archives\/2006\/10\/that_doctors_ya.html","title":{"rendered":"That Doctor&#8217;s Yacht Is Brought To You By . . . Your Knees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Marathon is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nysun.com\/article\/42230\">making local doctors rich<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p><em>The marathon is 11 days away, but city doctors specializing in sports medicine are already seeing a run on appointments. Physicians say strenuous pre-marathon regimens, such as 20-mile training runs, can take a toll on the body.<\/p>\n<p>Knee pain is the most common complaint of long-distance runners, the marathon&#8217;s medical director, Lewis Maharam, said. Dr. Maharam, who has a sports medicine practice on West 57th Street, estimates that his business increases by an average of 35% in the two weeks before and one week after the annual 26.2-mile race.<\/p>\n<p>This year&#8217;s ING New York City Marathon, sponsored by New York Road Runners, is slated for Sunday, November 5.<\/p>\n<p>On the day after the race, Dr. Maharam schedules no appointments. &#8220;People come in, and they get a number,&#8221; he said. &#8220;It&#8217;s like a bakery line, stretching down the hall.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The director of sports medicine at New York-Presbyterian Hospital-Columbia, William Levine, said the marathon is &#8220;not very good for your body.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>Tendonitis and cartilage tears resulting in knee pain are common marathon-related injuries, according to Dr. Levine. &#8220;There are patients who don&#8217;t really recover, and end up with chronic orthopedic problems,&#8221; he said. Earlier this week, Dr. Levine said he treated a patient who ran last year&#8217;s marathon and has been experiencing knee pain ever since.<\/p>\n<p>Also seen are more serious problems, such as stress fractures in the hip, thigh, and calf bones, Dr. Levine said. He recalled operating on a marathon entrant who fractured a thighbone in the middle of the race several years ago.<\/em><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New York Marathon is making local doctors rich: The marathon is 11 days away, but city doctors specializing in sports medicine are already seeing a run on appointments. Physicians say strenuous pre-marathon regimens, such as 20-mile training runs, can take a toll on the body. Knee pain is the most common complaint of long-distance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1694","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1694"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1694\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1694"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1694"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bridgeandtunnelclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1694"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}