Dr. Karas was featured recently on CNN's "Health Minute" about awareness and prevention of chronic neck and shoulder pain associated with women wearing heavy handbags (15 to 20 lbs)...as well as "wallet sciatica," a condition men somtimes suffer from (which Karas likens to sitting on a 3lb rock all day).
Watch it here:
Dr. Karas was recently interviewed by local Atlanta station Fox 4 News for their "4 In Your Corner" medical report, about double row arthroscopic repair (rotator cuff repair).
Watch the video here!
For the second consecutive time, Atlanta Magazine has named Spero Karas M.D. as one of "the city's most trusted physicians" in its just released biennial Atlanta's Top Doctor's exclusive.
Asked whom they would call when a member of their family needed medical attention, local doctors once more cited Dr. Karas among the handful of Orthopedic Surgeons they esteemed most highly in the greater Atlanta metro area.
Dr. Karas made Men's Health's "first annual list of those physician's who have the knowledge, the experience, and the tools to maintain and repair the 21st century man." Dr. Karas was recognized as one of America's "Top Sports Medicine Specialists"...one of only six such doctors in the south (and the only one in Georgia).
Incidentally, here's what Men's Health recommends to stay out of the Sports Medicine Specialist's office:
Atlanta Magazine asked doctors themselves who they would call when they needed medical attention, and the results have been tallied.
Dr. Karas was cited among the city's most trusted physicians and the most trusted sports medicine specialist in the nation's ninth largest metropolitan area.
The July 2007 Top Doctors list was put together by the New York-based research firm Castle Connolly Medical Ltd. Here's how they compile the list:
Dr. Spero Karas was recently recognized by Women's Health Magazine. In a November 2008 feature entitled America's Top Doctors for Women, Dr. Karas made the list for orthopaedics/sports medicine (south region).
According to the article, important criterion to keep in mind when getting a physician recommendation from a friend or coworker should be:
