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Select Maine Portland Pirates sports medicine orthopedic practice as team doctors

Portland, ME (NYSE) 12 October 2010

OA Centers for Orthopaedics announced today that Portland Pirates OA chosen their team of doctors for the 2010-11 season.

professional hockey players risk injury every time they step on to the ice foot. Throughout the season, players suffer knee, shoulder, hip, groin and back and a concussion and lacerations to the head, scalp and face. Among young athletes, hockey injuries of more than 85% of 1990.1 at stake for professional athletes who earn their living on the ice increased.

â? Shock, disease and injury prevention are important concerns of today’s professional athletes, â? Said Tom Murray, MD of OA Centers for Orthopaedics and chief of the team physicians for the Portland Pirates. â? As we begin working with the Pirates, making their management practices standards concussion in the NHL, some recommendations? including vaccines against the flu this week? reduce the prevalence of the disease during the season and expedited review and diagnostic services, when athletes are injured.â ????

OA is a pioneer and longstanding advocate of the impact test for the management of concussion was. IMPACT, or immediately after concussion assessment and cognitive tests, using the EDP evaluation concussion neuropsychological tests. It measures several aspects of cognitive function in athletes and provides tools to help doctors determine the ability of an athlete to return after suffering a concussion to play. The test provides immediate results to evaluate and to doctors, whether further measures for diagnosis, including a written test and physical exam required.

team doctors for the Pirates, the OAA? Specialists in sports medicine at every home game, play the Pirates this year. OA will handle all the injuries and the treatment and rehabilitation plans recommended for injured athletes, coaches and trainers.

â? We opted for OA because they are the best sports medicine practice in northern New England, the most complete, innovative treatments and solutions for all our teams? s medical needs, â? ? Said Brian Petrovek, managing partner / managing director of the Portland Pirates. â? If our guys injured, we would like to have immediate medical treatment. OA provides support for the Pirates, and we are excited about this new relationship in motion> forward.â ????

OA medical team is led by the head of the team of doctors, Thomas F. Murray, Jr., MD, a physician assistant with the team, Lucien R. Ouellette, MD, orthopedic, assisted by the FAO consultation? s Sports Medicine Center team of health professionals.


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doctors serve as team doctors and / or sports medicine consultant for the Portland Sea Dogs, Portland Phoenix football, Bowdoin College, St. Joseph? s College, USM, and dozens of area high school sports teams.

Bloomberg Business Week, 26 September 2010: http://www.businessweek.com/lifestyle/content/healthday/643435.html

On the OA Centers for Orthopaedics

founded in 1982, the Centers for Orthopaedics OA first orthopedic practice in Maine and a country A? leading innovators in orthopedics. ? AIO s 23 doctors and surgeons are highly skilled in areas such as sports medicine, hand surgery, reconstruction of the hip, knee and shoulder, medical and surgical treatment of spinal disorders, surgery of the foot and ankle and treatment of complex fractures. OA performs more orthopedic procedures than any other practice in Maine, and some of the most challenging procedures in the nation. In 2007, among U.S. News & World Report, Maine Medical Center in the top 50 in the category of orthopedics. OA will be accredited by the Accreditation Association for Ambulatory Health Care (AAAHC).

in Portland, Maine based OA has offices in Saco and Windham. OAA? Moving experience. For more information, please visit www.orthoassociates.com.


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