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Khaleej Times
5 days ago
- Health
- Khaleej Times
'His positivity was half the cure': Athletes remember Dubai-based doctor's care, gentle nature
Patients, athletes, and colleagues are mourning the loss of Dr Anwar Sadath, a well-known orthopedic surgeon in Dubai, who passed away earlier this week at the age of 49. Dr Sadath was from Kerala and was known for his gentle nature, ethical practice, and deep care for his patients. He was a specialist at Medcare Orthopaedics and Spine Hospital and had over 18 years of experience in treating sports injuries, fractures, and trauma cases. For the past 14 years, he was a part of the Aster DM Healthcare group. Among those deeply affected by his passing is Indian international handball player Vipin Kumar, who had been receiving treatment from Dr Sadath for many years. 'He was more than just a doctor to me. He focused on healing my injuries naturally, through strengthening exercises and avoiding unnecessary surgeries. Whenever I got hurt, he gave me the confidence to recover and keep going. He always reminded me that we were in this together, it was a team effort,' said Vipin. Vipin had recently returned from an international handball tournament in Taipei and had met Dr Sadath just days before his death. 'He told me he was going on a vacation soon. He was so happy and proud every time I brought home a medal. I even spoke about him during a recent radio interview, thanking him for the role he played in my success,' he added. Another patient, speaking to Khaleej Times, said Dr Sadath treated everyone like family. 'He wasn't just a doctor; he was a well-wisher. He cared from the heart. He would never suggest unnecessary procedures, and his first step was always to calm us down and lift our spirits before starting any treatment. That positivity alone was half the cure.' Known for his humility, Dr Sadath had a strong connection with many athletes in the UAE. His colleagues described him as a man with a pure heart who always put his patients first. 'He had a gift for making people feel at ease. You walked into his clinic with pain and walked out with hope,' said a colleague. Dr Sadath is survived by his three children. His sudden passing has left a void in the medical and sports community. He is being laid to rest after Asr prayer at Al Qusais Cemetery, with many of his patients and well-wishers attending the funeral.
Medscape
03-07-2025
- Health
- Medscape
America's Favorite Sports Pose a Risk for Orbital Fractures
TOPLINE: Adolescents and men in the US faced a notable burden of orbital fractures and associated ocular injuries from sports such as baseball, softball, and bicycling, underscoring the need for protective glasses and clear safety rules — as well as the strict enforcement — of these regulations to prevent loss of sight during athletic activities. METHODOLOGY: Researchers analyzed data from the National Electronic Injury Surveillance System from 2014 to 2023 to understand how often individuals suffered from orbital fractures while playing sports in the US. They looked up the database for cases of facial fractures linked to sports, excluding those involving motor vehicles, and reviewed trauma narratives specific to orbital fractures; records of individuals younger than 5 years were not analyzed. The national estimates of orbital fractures were calculated, and details such as the age of the patients, the type of sport played, the location of the fracture, and the frequency of associated ocular injuries were evaluated. TAKEAWAY: This study identified 1468 cases of orbital fractures stemming from sports, corresponding to an estimated 49,765 cases (95% CI, 47,219-52,311) nationwide; the incidence of these injuries remained largely stable throughout the study period. The study population had a mean age of 27.1 years, with men comprising 79% of cases, and the highest frequency of sports-related orbital fractures observed among those aged 10-19 years. Baseball (28.6%), bicycling (23.1%), and softball (6.7%) were the most frequently implicated sports in orbital fractures; most cases of orbital fractures (56.9%) were linked to activities in which participants were required to come into bodily contact with one another. An analysis of narratives specific to orbital fractures revealed that the orbital floor was the most commonly fractured site, accounting for 59.8% of cases; about 14% of patients sustained injuries to the eye or surrounding areas, most often cuts to the eyelid, scratches or cuts to the cornea, cuts to the eyebrow, and bleeding beneath the conjunctival membrane. IN PRACTICE: 'The sustained rates of orbital fractures highlight a critical gap in sporting protective equipment and emphasize the importance of adopting protective equipment specifically designed for orbital injury prevention, including face shields and protective eyewear,' the researchers reported. 'The findings presented here, coupled with evidence that properly fitted protective eyewear or face shields can reduce the risk of ocular injuries by 90%, emphasize the crucial role of eye protection in sports,' they added. SOURCE: This study was led by Niloufar Bineshfar, MD, of the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute, University of Miami Miller School of Medicine in Miami. It was published online on June 21, 2025, in Ophthalmology. LIMITATIONS: Some injuries may not have been reported or may have been labeled incorrectly, causing inaccuracy in the incidence rates for orbital fractures and related eye injuries. No details were available on the severity of the injuries, how people healed over time, or what care they received. Since injuries to other parts of the body were noted only from 2019 onward, some damage to the eye before that date may have been missed. DISCLOSURES: This study was funded by the Bascom Palmer Eye Institute and a Research to Prevent Blindness Unrestricted Grant. The authors reported having no relevant conflicts of interest. This article was created using several editorial tools, including AI, as part of the process. Human editors reviewed this content before publication.
Globe and Mail
19-05-2025
- Business
- Globe and Mail
Lucintel Forecasts the Global Arthroscopy Devices Market to Reach $9.2 billion by 2030
"According to a market report by Lucintel, the future of the global arthroscopy devices market looks promising with opportunities in the knee arthroscopy, hip arthroscopy, spine arthroscopy, shoulder and elbow arthroscopy markets. The global arthroscopy devices market is expected to reach an estimated $9.2 billion by 2030 from $6.0 billion in 2024, at a CAGR of 7.3% from 2024 to 2030" According to a market report by Lucintel, the future of the global arthroscopy devices market looks promising with opportunities in the knee arthroscopy, hip arthroscopy, spine arthroscopy, shoulder and elbow arthroscopy markets. The global arthroscopy devices market is expected to reach an estimated $9.2 billion by 2030 from $6.0 billion in 2024, at a CAGR of 7.3% from 2024 to 2030 According to a market report by Lucintel, the future of the global arthroscopy devices market looks promising with opportunities in the knee arthroscopy, hip arthroscopy, spine arthroscopy, shoulder and elbow arthroscopy markets. The global arthroscopy devices market is expected to reach an estimated $9.2 billion by 2030 from $6.0 billion in 2024, at a CAGR of 7.3% from 2024 to 2030. The major drivers for this market are increasing incidences of sports injuries, rising geriatric population, and technological advancements in arthroscopic implants. A more than 150-page report to understand trends, opportunity and forecast in arthroscopy devices market to 2030 by type (arthroscopes, arthroscopic implants, fluid management systems, radiofrequency systems, visualization systems, powered shavers, and others), application (knee arthroscopy, hip arthroscopy, spine arthroscopy, shoulder and elbow arthroscopy, and others), end use (ambulatory surgical centers, orthopedic clinics, and others), and region (North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Rest of the World). Lucintel forecasts that, within the type category, arthroscopic implants will remain the largest segment over the forecast period due to the introduction of biodegradable implants and growing adoption of arthroscopic implants for internal tissue repair, bone grafting, joint fixation, and glenoid reconstruction. Within the application category, knee arthroscopy will remain the largest segment due to growing number of people suffering from bone diseases like arthritis and rising senior population. Download sample by clicking on arthroscopy devices market In terms of regions, North America will remain the largest region over the forecast period due to the rising cases of bone-related disorders and presence of well-established healthcare infrastructure in the region. Arthrex, Conmed Corporation, Johnson & Johnson, Karl Storz, Medtronic, Richard Wolf, Smith & Nephew, Stryker Corporation are the major suppliers in the arthroscopy devices market. This unique research report will enable you to make confident business decisions in this globally competitive marketplace. For a detailed table of contents, contact Lucintel at +1-972-636-5056 or write us at helpdesk@ To get access of more than 1000 reports at fraction of cost visit Lucintel's Analytics Dashboard. About Lucintel At Lucintel, we offer solutions for you growth through game changer ideas and robust market & unmet needs analysis. We are based in Dallas, TX and have been a trusted advisor for 1,000+ clients for over 20 years. We are quoted in several publications like the Wall Street Journal, ZACKS, and the Financial Times. Contact: Roy Almaguer Lucintel Dallas, Texas, USA Email: Tel. +1-972-636-5056 Explore Our Latest Publications Infrastructure as a Service Market Pulse Generator Market Alternating Current (AC) Meters Sensors Market Flexible Hybrid Electronics Market Body Temperature Monitoring Market Media Contact Company Name: Lucintel Contact Person: Roy Almaguer Email: Send Email Phone: 972.636.5056 Address: 8951 Cypress Waters Blvd., Suite 160 City: Dallas State: TEXAS Country: United States Website:
CNN
09-05-2025
- Sport
- CNN
Battling back from brain surgery, the indestructible Austin Forkner seeks dirt bike glory
Motorcycle racing is dangerous, of that there is no doubt. But within the sport there is one category that sits (bruised) head and (fractured) shoulders above the others. Supercross is a spectacular form of dirt-bike racing played out in stadiums, with wild jumps, eye-widening speeds and battling competition. Few riders embody the sport and its elements more than Austin Forkner, the most successful rider in the 250SX class never to win a title. The Missouri native has come close, but painful on-track mishaps have always gotten in the way. With its speed, acrobatics and general entertainment factor, Forkner tells CNN Sports that no sport has the blend of ingredients that Supercross offers: 'It's got the technicality of golf, we're playing with inches out there. 'It's got the brutalness or gnarliness of fighting, like UFC fighting … then it's got the physicality of, like, a triathlete. You have to be in such good shape, you have to be ready to be injured and ready to go to war, basically.' Talking to CNN at Triumph Racing America's headquarters in picturesque countryside south of Atlanta, Georgia, the 26-year-old begins to list the injuries he has sustained in the saddle, gesturing to different parts of his body. 'I'll just go through them. I've done this collarbone three times, this collarbone twice; I broke this wrist, I broke my hip, my hip socket, I guess. Let's see – when I was young, I broke my ankle and the growth plate …' It's completely understandable that Forkner would have to think about it because this list goes on and on … and on. Far more broken bones and smashed body parts, in fact, than there is space here to list: 'I've torn my ACL, or torn everything in my knee, basically, my right knee twice, my left knee once. 'I've torn my labrum in my shoulder twice, tore it, then retore it again. I actually had four surgeries on this shoulder within, like, 18 months, from two collarbones and two labrums. I compression-fractured my back a few years ago … and I rode with it because I didn't know that it was compression-fractured.' These are still just some of the injuries this extraordinary competitor has overcome in his career. It takes Forkner almost three minutes to relay all of them; he has even had part of his pancreas removed, along with his spleen. But the most serious setback was not directly related to racing at all. In fact, were it not for the fact that the rider was being examined after a bad crash, it might never have been discovered. 'Last year, after the crash where I broke my back and my shoulder and I was knocked out for like five minutes, they were doing scans on my head and they found out that I had something called an AVM (arteriovenous malformation),' Forkner explains. 'And I actually had to have brain surgery to have that taken out.' A post shared by Austin Forkner (@austinforkner) AVM is a tangle of blood vessels that typically forms during fetal development and leads to irregular connections between arteries and veins in the brain. While many people born with AVMs live normal lives without even noticing, such malformations can be dangerous, even fatal if left untreated. Forkner admits that it was a shock to find out brain surgery was needed. 'Even though I've done everything – I've done knees, shoulders, collarbones, wrists, ankles, everything like that, back,' he tells CNN, 'it's kind of two things you don't really think about having surgery on: that's your heart and your brain.' The surgery itself, while relatively routine, was an intimidating prospect. 'They cut me from here to here, basically,' Forkner explains, gesturing across his hairline. '(They) had to essentially kind of pull the front part of my brain out of my skull a little bit so they could get down to what they were trying to do.' The other troubling aspect of the surgery was the recovery, he says. 'I honestly didn't really know what that meant for my career, just because, like all the other injuries, you'll be back in, whatever, ACL, six months, any broken bone, six to eight weeks, you know, they kind of can give you a time frame,' Forkner continues. 'This was kind of, 'We don't know.' So, it was pretty scary in that way, but not speaking anything about (my career), it was just scary. It was just scary to have my brain opened up, basically.' After the event, though, perhaps unsurprisingly given the rider's track record of recovering from injuries, Forkner's path back into the saddle was relatively smooth and swift. 'If I could have (gone) to the gym two weeks after, I probably would have (gone) to the gym two weeks after,' he smiles. 'I was basically limited because the doctor didn't want me to get my heart rate up, get the blood really flowing through there. He was like, 'We need to be chill, because part of it is that the AVM can cause seizures, strokes, and aneurysms.' Not long after his return to fitness, however, Forkner made a big decision, uprooting from California, where he'd spent most of his career, and leaving his Kawasaki team to move to Georgia and join the relative newcomers to dirt bike racing, Triumph. But the Richards, Missouri-born rider was actually quite happy to leave California behind. 'It was a big change coming from California all the way out here. I like Georgia way better than California. 'It has the Midwest kind of small towns, you know, we're out here, this reminds me exactly of the Midwest where I grew up, ponds and green grass. I'm way more at home here than I was in California.' The move also meant adapting to a completely new bike: 'I don't think you can understand exactly how much work goes into setting the bike up. The best way that I can explain it to somebody is that the forks or the front suspension on my bike, if they move that 0.5 millimeter, I feel it. 'Let's say there's 10 to 12 turns on the track; if the bike turns better or doesn't in certain sections, that could be a 10th of a second per turn. Ten turns, that's a second a lap. A second a lap is a lot.' Jeremy Coker, general manager of Triumph Racing America, gushes about Forkner's talent, but acknowledges that his team was taking a risk of its own bringing him on board. 'Austin Forkner has a one-of-a-kind talent. I think if you were to ask any rider, any competitor that he races with, they're going to say that he's probably the most talented and fastest rider there is,' he tells CNN. 'I think all of the injuries that he sustained, especially his brain injury, was a big setback for him,' Coker continues. 'I think at that point that not only were people scared to hire him in the fact that maybe he's not going to be as fast as he once was. 'But also, the scare factor of – is this dangerous? Is this a risk that we're willing to take? If he crashes, can he sustain a worse injury? Could it … as far as you know, kill him? I don't mean to say it like that, but it's a big risk. It's something that's scary.' Undoubtedly the biggest change of all for Forkner, however, came when he and his wife – model and influencer Rylee Forkner – celebrated the arrival of their son, Atlas Hope, in March of this year. The rider admits that fatherhood has already changed him. 'I love my little boy more than anything else. It's funny because everybody says it, it changes … your riding and stuff like that, and it changed it as far as I realized that yes, dirt bikes are my job, they're my living,' Forkner says, 'but for so long dirt bikes have been the only thing. They've been the most important thing. They've been all I think about when I wake up and all I think about when I go to bed, and now they're not. A post shared by RYLEE FORKNER (@ryleeforkner) 'Now (racing is) important because it's my job, but whether I have a good day at the track or a bad day at the track and I go home and I can hold my little boy, it doesn't matter – it makes it not matter. 'It takes the added pressure that I put on myself off because I'm just like, 'Hey, whether I win, whether I get last, I get to go home and hold my boy and everything's gonna be OK.'' He also concedes that his new responsibilities are on his mind at the track: 'That is something that has been a little bit of a battle this year, fighting the, 'I need to go home. I need to be safe for my wife and my kid.' 'But then at the same time, you can't ride with that lingering over you. Because you won't ride loose and ride natural when you have something like that, telling yourself, 'Be careful, you can't ride like that' – so it's a process.' Perhaps though, the most revealing thing about being a father was the new insight into his relationship with his own parents. 'Honestly, one of the biggest things about having a kid now is that it puts into perspective a lot my parents and what they've had to deal with, with me, just as far as how upset it makes you,' Forkner says. 'If you've ever seen my mom at a race, she's a disaster to watch a race with, she's freaking out, grabbing somebody, but I understand that now, I understand that side of things, like how upset it must make her to see me go through – to see me just get beat down over and over again. I understand what that could do to you as a mother.' Would he encourage his son Atlas Hope to follow in his footsteps? 'I'm gonna be hard pressed to tell him no,' Forkner smiles, 'as far as if I'm gonna advise him to become a professional dirt bike rider. I don't know if I would, I'm probably gonna advise against it. 'In certain ways I can get a little bit bitter about the sport. Well yes, it's given me a great life and I met all my friends, my wife, everybody that I know I've met through dirt bikes basically, but I've also seen a lot of the dark side of the sport. 'But a lot of that has come from professional dirt bike racing where we are pushing the limits every single day, and that's hard and that's stressful, so am I gonna tell him he can't ever touch a dirt bike? No. But I would prefer if we just do it for fun.'
