Dr. Tamara A Scerpella MD
Sports Medicine Specialist | Sports Medicine
621 Science Dr Madison WI, 53711About
Dr. Tamara Scerpella is a Sports Medicine Family Practitioner in Madison, WI. As a Sports Medicine Family Practitioner, Dr. Scerpella is trained to assess, diagnose, prevent, and treat sports injuries in patients of all ages, and refer those patients to further services if needed. Sports Medicine Family Practitioners must complete specialized training in order to help each patient maximize function and improve quality of life.
Education and Training
Univ Of Ia Coll Of Med- Iowa City Ia 1985
Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas 1985
Board Certification
Orthopaedic SurgeryAmerican Board of Orthopaedic SurgeryABOS
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Expert Publications
Data provided by the National Library of Medicine- Acute traumatic tear of the latissimus dorsi tendon from its insertion. A case report.
- Validation of the Godin-Shephard questionnaire in prepubertal girls.
- Anterior and middle column thoracolumbar spine injuries in young female gymnasts. Report of seven cases and review of the literature.
- Fan-beam densitometry of the growing skeleton: are we measuring what we think we are?
- Chronic Lyme disease arthritis: review of the literature and report of a case of wrist arthritis.
- Maturity and activity-related differences in bone mineral density: Tanner I vs. II and gymnasts vs. non-gymnasts.
- Bone geometry, density, and strength indices of the distal radius reflect loading via childhood gymnastic activity.
- Distal radius strength: a comparison of DXA-derived vs pQCT-measured parameters in adolescent females.
- Muscle indices do not fully account for enhanced upper extremity bone mass and strength in gymnasts.
- Correcting fan-beam magnification in clinical densitometry scans of growing subjects.
- Skeletal geometry and indices of bone strength in artistic gymnasts.
- Distal radius geometry and skeletal strength indices after peripubertal artistic gymnastics.
- Sustained skeletal benefit from childhood mechanical loading.
- Mechanical loading during growth is associated with plane-specific differences in vertebral geometry: A cross-sectional analysis comparing artistic gymnasts vs. non-gymnasts.
- Site-specific advantages in skeletal geometry and strength at the proximal femur and forearm in young female gymnasts.
Treatments
- Sportcare
- Pain
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