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 
• Monday walk-in clinic for sports injuries that occurred during weekend games

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)
• Scoliosis