Frank Petrigliano, MD, Named Head Team Physician for LA Kings

[kingskring]

The LA Kings announced Frank Petrigliano, MD, will serve as head team physician for the 2019-20 season.
In a corresponding announcement, Petrigliano was also named chief of the USC Epstein Family Center for Sports Medicine at Keck Medicine of USC. He also will join the Keck School of Medicine of USC faculty as an associate professor of clinical orthopaedic surgery.
"I am excited to join Keck Medicine and provide care to the LA Kings and Los Angeles athletes of all levels," Petrigliano said. "My mission is to work with our outstanding orthopaedic team and researchers to develop the preeminent sports medicine center in the region, and I am confident that Keck Medicine has the passion, skill and innovation to make this possible."

Frank Petrigliano, MD, Named Head Team Physician for LA Kings
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[King'sPawn]

Frank Petrigliano, MD, Named Head Team Physician for LA Kings
More at the link.

At first I thought "wow, specialist in orthopaedics" and thought maybe they initially consulted with him regarding Vilardi, and that he could have some groundbreaking stuff on back issues.

Then I looked at the link and saw:

Petrigliano treats a wide variety of sports medicine injuries, with a special interest in ligament reconstruction of the knee and surgical care of shoulder and elbow injuries. Petrigliano also is deeply involved in orthopaedic research. His work focuses on developing regenerative stem cell therapies for rotator cuff and cartilage injuries.

Still, interesting they are going with a new physician when apparently Kvitne has been with the Kings for a very long time:

 

[Bandit]

Kvitne is probably retiring. Dude's been around forever.

 

[ZJames]

Please fix Vilardi. If he does that then this is a great hire.

 

[kingsholygrail]

Just give him a robot spine already.

 

[Choralone]

Just give him a robot spine already.

Future Villardi to a goalie on the shootout: "Your move, creep."

 

[Maynard]

I’m withholding my comments until Tikkanen vets this guy.

 

[The Tikkanen]

I’m withholding my comments until Tikkanen vets this guy.

I saw this doctor on the ForHims website, he was very generous.

 

[KingCanadain1976]

I saw this doctor on the ForHims website, he was very generous.

Can you explain what u mean by generous? I am not sure what u mean

 

[riznat]

Can you explain what u mean by generous? I am not sure what u mean

We aren’t allowed to talk about wangs, Kingsboy11 does not like it.

 

[kovacro]

At first glance, I thought the header read Frank Pietrangelo was named the Kings new head team physician.

Then the beer goggles wore off.

 

[The Tikkanen]

Can you explain what u mean by generous? I am not sure what u mean

My joke went a little over your head.

 

[Ziggy Stardust]

At first glance, I thought the header read Frank Pietrangelo was named the Kings new head team physician.

Then the beer goggles wore off.

Glad I wasn’t alone in thinking it was Frank Pietrangelo at first glance.

 

[Jason Squirties]

We aren’t allowed to talk about wangs, Kingsboy11 does not like it.

 

[RocketKing]

Regenerative medicine is really great potential but i don’t think there enough clinical evidence for it showing it works yet. PRP definitely does good things, i had that on my patellar tendon and it got great results but not covered by insurance since it’s “experimental” so far.

 

[Sol]

My joke went a little over your head.

He just needs a helping hand.

 

[Sol]

Regenerative medicine is really great potential but i don’t think there enough clinical evidence for it showing it works yet. PRP definitely does good things, i had that on my patellar tendon and it got great results but not covered by insurance since it’s “experimental” so far.

Actually, it works very well from all the studies I see. It's just stupid expensive hence why they don't want to cover it.

 

[The Tikkanen]

The Kings should have hired Dr. Gregory House so we could get a diagnosis on Vilardi.

 

[kovacro]

Should of hired Dr. Martin Van Nostrand.

 

[johnjm22]

The Kings should have hired Dr. Gregory House so we could get a diagnosis on Vilardi.

Vilardi's condition is so mysterious I think they need Dr. McCoy.

 

[Bandit]

So this is the new Vilardi thread huh? Cool.