This is PEDYACAST.

Welcome to Pediacast, a pediatric podcast for parents.

And now, direct from the campus of nationwide children's, here is your host, Dr. Mike.

Hello, everyone, and welcome.

Once again to Pediacast.

It is a pediatric podcast for moms and dads.

This is Dr. Mike, coming to you from nationwide children's hospital.

We're in Columbus, Ohio.

It's episode 498 for August 11th, 2021.

We're calling this one golf medicine.

I want to welcome all of you to the program.

So today we are covering an interesting field within sports medicine, one that focuses on the evaluation and care of athletes who play golf.

And I have to tell you, it's a particularly interesting episode this week as we explore the ins and outs of golf medicine.

But it has to begin with this disclaimer.

I am not and have never been much of a golfer.

Okay, I've played putt putt a time or two, and I've taken some very bad swings at golf balls at the driving range on occasion.

I played a couple, you know,

par three short golf courses a very long time ago. And I was not a good golfer then. And

without lots and lots of help, I would probably not be a good golfer now. I might even be a

dangerous one. And if I'm honest about it, I haven't really watched much golf either. So as I

approached the task of organizing content for today's episode, I waded into it, into this topic of

golf medicine as a non-golfer. And I was not particularly excited about recording and producing

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