11/13/2025
Dr. Kevin Plancher explains that while most people would assume that young adults are immune to the debilitating joint pain and stiffness associated with osteoarthritis, volleyball players under the age of 40 are learning that their favorite sport can lead them to this degenerative disease, previously thought to afflict only the elderly or inactive. Read more:https://plancherortho.com/pdf/046-keeping-young-adult-volleyball-players-with-arthritis-in-the-game.pdf
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Kevin D. Plancher, MD, MPH, FAOA, FAAOS, is a board-certified orthopaedic surgeon and founder of Plancher Orthopaedics & Sports Medicine. Dr. Plancher is 1 of only 36 Orthopaedic Surgeons who hold American Board of Orthopaedic Surgeons certification in both Surgery of the Hand and Orthopaedic Sports Medicine. He is a Clinical Professor, Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, at Montefiore Medical Center/Albert Einstein College of Medicine and an Adjunct Clinical Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery, at the Weill Cornell Medical College, Cornell University in New York. Since 2001, Dr. Plancher has been listed annually in the Castle Connolly directory as a “top doctor” in his field.