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In today’s orthopedic and Sports Medicine landscape, it is important to understand the unique synergy between Sports Medicine and the rapidly evolving field of Regenerative Medicine - and how they can be used together for comprehensive recovery.

How is Regenerative Medicine changing the game for today’s athletes? Faster recovery, natural healing and improved performance are just a few ways. The enhanced tissue repair is perhaps one of the most game – and life – changing results that has emerged. Just as important, though, is the reduced reliance on pain medication that we’re seeing among athletes because of this new array of innovative treatment approaches.

Regenerative Medicine offers one of the most promising new options for managing chronic pain. It presents an effective complement or alternative to both traditional and emerging pain management methods for injuries, nerve damage, or degenerative conditions like osteoarthritis.

By now, the sports world is abuzz about the use of platelet-rich plasma (PRP) to achieve incredible breakthroughs in the treatment of sports injuries. Orthopedic medicine has always been at the forefront of evolving medical developments like PRP.

Orthopedic medicine has always been at the forefront of evolving medical developments. It was a sports medicine triumph involving a famous football player who was injured before a Super Bowl game – using platelet-rich plasma (PRP) – that catapulted PRP front and center into the consciousness of most American medical consumers. PRP is now considered one of the hallmark therapies to emerge in the field of Regenerative Medicine.

When we talk about sports injuries, the term encompasses the very specific array of injuries that commonly occur in athletes while playing sports, training or exercising. They are, of course, not limited to athletes. Landscapers can get golfer’s elbow swinging a weedeater, and gardening is famous for knee injuries from all the kneeling gardeners do.

So, you’ve suffered an injury and you’re seemingly down for the count – struggling with mobility and pain issues that are keeping you out of the game – and the game of life. Fortunately, we address a wide range of sports and lifestyle-related injuries.

When you experience a major injury, it’s usually pretty obvious when you need to seek medical attention. Break your arm, you head to the ER. There are times, though, when you’ll develop symptoms from a chronic condition that has slowly been developing over time. Or perhaps symptoms come on suddenly but you can’t point to any discernable cause, so you delay treatment hoping it will just go away eventually.

Orthopedic doctors who specialize in Sports Medicine are experts in not only preventing and treating sports-related injuries but also analyzing athletic performance. You cannot optimally prepare - or repair - an athlete’s body without a deep understanding of how it performs complex athletic functions and maneuvers. That insight then becomes invaluable as a tool to enhance athletic performance. That’s why no major sports team travels anywhere without their Sports Medicine physician – or team of physicians.