Sports medicine injuries, services, and conditions
Most common sports involving injuries:
- Soccer
- Gymnastics
- Dance
- Football
- Baseball
- Swimming (shoulder instability)
- Basketball
Sports Medicine Program services:
Non-surgical services
- Specialized guidance for young athletes
- Injury prevention lectures and clinics
- Return to play decisions
- Dance medicine
- Fracture Clinic
- Physical therapy
Surgical services
- ACL reconstruction
- Meniscal repair
- Cartilage repair/replacement
- Soft-tissue repair in the shoulder
- Repairs for shoulder injury
- Labral repairs of the hip
- Ligament reconstruction in the elbow (Tommy John surgery)
- Ankle instability repair
- Cartilage repair in the ankle
Watch video about a breakthrough knee surgery for ACL injuries in adolescents.
Common injuries and conditions
Knee and leg injuries
- ACL tears
- PCL and other knee ligament injuries
- Meniscus tears
- Osteochondritis dissecans (injury to cartilage and underlying bone)
- Anterior knee pain
- Patella Instability/Dislocation
- Fractures
- Stress fractures
- Osgood-Schlatter disease
- Shin splints
Shoulder injuries
- Shoulder Instability
- Shoulder dislocation
- Labral tears
- Shoulder separation
- Fractures
- Little-league shoulder
- Rotator cuff tendonitis
Hip injuries
- Labral Tears
- Femoral Acetabular Impingement
- Avulsion Fractures/Apophysitis
- Sprains/Strains
- Tendonitis
- Internal and External Snapping Hip
Elbow, hand, and wrist injuries
- Fractures
- Ligament tears (Tommy John Surgery)
- Tendonitis (Tennis Elbow)
- Osteochondritis dissecans
- Gymnast wrist
Foot and ankle injuries
- Osteochondritis dissecans (injury to cartilage and underlying bone)
- Os trigonum
- Ankle impingement
- Ankle sprains and strains
- Fractures
- Heel pain
- Tendonitis
- Sever's disease
- Turf toe
- Foot and Ankle pain in dancers
- Stress fractures
- Plantar fasciitis
Back injuries
- Sprains/Strains
- Spondylolysis (stress fractures of vertebrae)
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