Healthy Rounds With Dr. Anthony Alessi
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<p>Healthy Rounds covers a range of topics, including new medical technologies and treatments, research, disease prevention, hosted by Dr. Anthony Alessi, UConn Health neurologist and clinical professor of neurology and orthopedics in the UConn School of Medicine.</p>
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July 7, 2026
Keeping Women Active and Healthy
You don’t have to be an athlete to benefit from the expertise of sports medicine physicians. While Dr. Allison Schafer and Dr. Katherine Coyner are team physicians for UConn athletics, they also run the Women’s Center for Motion and Performance at UConn Health, a collection of coordinated services to keep women of all ages active and healthy, athlete or not. They join Dr. Alessi to discuss the advantages of this care model, how their individual specialties with sports medicine fit into it, and how women tend to be more susceptible to certain orthopedic injuries. Submit questions for Healthy Rounds:healthyrounds@uchc.edu UConn Health Orthopedics and Sports Medicine:https://www.uconnhealth.org/orthopedics-sports-medicine Women’s Center for Motion and Performance at UConn Healthhttps://www.uconnhealth.org/orthopedics-sports-medicine/womens-center-motion-performance Dr. Allison Schaferhttps://health.uconn.edu/find-a-provider/physician/Schafer-Allison Dr. Katherine Coynerhttps://health.uconn.edu/find-a-provider/physician/Coyner-Katherine Women's Center for Motion and Performance nurse navigator:860-679-6330
June 16, 2026
Retraining the Brain With Advanced Neurosurgery
Already on the leading edge of electronic stimulation for new applications like stroke recovery, UConn Health's Dr. Christopher Conner, who specializes in stereotactic and functional neurosurgery, is on the verge of another one! He joins Dr. Anthony Alessi to explain how Vivistim has been opening new doors to regaining function after stroke, who the best candidates are, and how a similar concept for autoimmune disorders may not be far behind. Submit questions for Healthy Rounds:healthyrounds@uchc.edu Dr. Christopher Conner:https://www.uconnhealth.org/providers/profiles/conner-christopher UConn Health Department of Neurosurgery:https://www.uconnhealth.org/neurosurgery The Brain and Spine Institute at UConn Health:https://www.uconnhealth.org/brain-spine UConn Health Orthopedics and Sports Medicine:https://www.uconnhealth.org/orthopedics-sports-medicine “UConn Health Neuromodulation Center of Excellence for Veterans” (UConn Today, June 17, 2025):https://today.uconn.edu/2025/06/uconn-health-neuromodulation-center-of-excellence-for-veterans/ “Grateful Stroke Survivor Shares How New Technology Is Transforming His Recovery” (UConn Today, Nov. 25, 2024):https://today.uconn.edu/2024/11/grateful-stroke-survivor-shares-how-new-technology-is-transforming-his-recovery/ UConn Health:https://www.uconnhealth.org Grant support from Coverys:www.coverys.com Transcript Dr. Alessi: Welcome to the Healthy Rounds Podcast, where we provide you with up-to-date and timely medical information from national and international leaders in their fields. This podcast is brought to you by UConn Health, with support from the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and a grant from Coverys. It is not designed to direct your personal healthcare, which should only be done by your physician. I’m your host, Dr. Anthony Alessi, and it’s great to have as my guest today Dr. Christopher Conner. Dr. Conner is an assistant professor in the Department of Neurosurgery, and he specializes in stereotactic and functional neurosurgery. Chris, welcome to the show. Dr. Conner: It’s fantastic being here, Dr. Alessi. Dr. Alessi: Let’s talk. Can you explain to our listeners what is stereotactic and functional neurosurgery? Dr. Conner: The simple answer is that I get paid money to put wires and batteries into people’s bodies, which is a really weird thing to do with your day-to-day work, but it is what it is. What it really means, though, is that a majority of what I’m doing is trying to improve people’s day-to-day lives. That’s kind of the functional aspect of it, and that can encompass a lot of things. It can encompass chronic pain. It can encompass stroke recovery. It can also involve Parkinson’s disease or movement disorders, and even epilepsy. And so these are some diseases that you might sometimes think of as not something that surgery can, can treat, but this is kind of where someone like myself comes into play. Dr. Alessi: That’s great. Now, let’s go back a little bit. I want to talk, you brought up several different topics, and I know we covered this about two years ago when you were on my radio show. So I want to touch base. Let’s go to Parkinson’s disease, doing deep brain stimulation. You were just starting that at the time here at UConn Health. Where are we with that program? Dr. Conner: The program has really gotten its feet underneath it. We’ve done upwards of, I think, about 25 or 30 patients with deep brain stimulation, primarily for Parkinson’s disease, although we also treat patients with essential tremor and some other disorders with that here at UConn Health. But at this point in time, we have a, a really full-fledged program. My movement disorder neurologists, like Dr. [Sarah] Mancone, Dr. [Bernardo] Rodrigues, Dr. [Chindhuri] Selvadurai, and I, we’re really proud of what we can accomplish here, and we can offer kind of a full-stack treatment for people who have advanced Parkinson’s disease. And again, that deep brain stimulation, when I use that term, sti
June 2, 2026
Kids on a Pitch Count
In 1974, a 31-year-old pitcher for the Los Angeles Dodgers underwent a new procedure to repair the ulnar collateral ligament (UCL) in his left elbow. His name was Tommy John, and so would become the name of the surgery. Today, it’s not unheard of for baseball players to get Tommy John surgery before they turn 20. One factor is, it’s become the norm for many child athletes to specialize, for example, playing baseball not just during Little League season, but throughout the year. With that has come an upward trend in upper extremity injuries, and elbow and shoulder surgeries as adolescents. Dr. Cory Edgar, UConn Health orthopedic surgeon and co-director of the UConn Institute for Sports Medicine, joins Dr. Alessi to discuss youth sports injuries, the risks of playing a sport year-round with no downtime, the importance of pitch counts, and what parents might consider when it comes to their children’s participation in youth sports. Submit questions for Healthy Rounds:healthyrounds@uchc.edu Dr. Cory Edgar:https://www.uconnhealth.org/providers/profiles/edgar-cory UConn Health Orthopedics and Sports Medicine:https://www.uconnhealth.org/orthopedics-sports-medicine UConn Institute for Sports Medicine:https://sports.institute.uconn.edu “The Story Behind ‘Tommy John Surgery’” (UConn Health Blog, Oct. 22, 2018)https://health.uconn.edu/health-blog/2018/10/22/the-story-behind-tommy-john-surgery UConn Health:https://www.uconnhealth.org Grant support from Coverys:www.coverys.com Transcript Dr. Alessi: Welcome to the Healthy Rounds Podcast, where we provide you with up-to-date, timely medical information provided by national and international experts in their field. This podcast is brought to you by UConn Health with support from the Department of Orthopaedic Surgery and a grant from Coverys. It is not designed to in any way direct your personal healthcare, which should only be done by your physician. I’m your host, Dr. Anthony Alessi, and it’s great to have as my guest today Dr. Cory Edgar. Dr. Edgar is an MD, Ph.D. He is associate professor of orthopedic surgery here at UConn Health, where he also serves as co-director for the UConn Institute for Sports Medicine. He’s also a team physician. Cory, welcome to the show. Dr. Edgar: Thank you, Tony. Always a pleasure to talk to you and be on the show. Dr. Alessi: Let’s talk a little bit about Little League sports. And something we’re always hearing about is throwing injuries in athletes who are younger and younger, and I know that you treat a lot of these in athletes — We talk about Little League, but in all throwing sports. So I really want to emphasize today on upper extremity injuries. My first question is, are we seeing an upward trend in these injuries in general, and especially in a younger population? Dr. Edgar: Yeah, great question. So overall, we have been seeing a trend in injuries, specifically around the elbow, and also the shoulder, with an uptick in people that need surgical intervention. Interestingly, some of the newer data that’s come out suggests that this is trending surgery towards a younger throwing athlete, such that up to 60% of all the UCL reconstructions or Tommy John surgeries that we do on the young throwing elbow is now in the age bracket of age less than 20. So we’re seeing an uptick in injuries to the elbow and the shoulder in younger athletes for a variety of reasons. Dr. Alessi: Let’s talk a little bit about the reasons. Is it because, I mean, it used to be, people played Little League, children played Little League, and that was it, the end of the season, some playoff, everybody got a trophy. But now we’re hearing a lot about travel, and you and I have talked about this at ringside and on the sideline over the years. I mean, it’s now Little League, sectionals, championship, travel, things like that. And in addition to increased expense for parents, it’s also been increased wear and tear on these arms. Is that one of the reasons that we’re facing this
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