Most Common Sports Injuries & How to Avoid Them
Mid-America Orthopedics’ Athletic Training team provides sports medicine coverage to schools across Kansas. Our athletic
Wichita Orthopedic Sports Medicine Treatment
Meet our team and learn about sports medicine treatments.
Sports Medicine is a subspecialty of orthopedic surgery that deals with injuries in athletes and other athletic type of injuries. It generally deals with the prevention, diagnosis, and treatment of injury with the goal to return to the optimal level of activity. The practice of sports medicine is not specific to any type of joint but often deals with acute injuries, chronic overuse injuries, and prevention of injury.
Sports-related injuries are often treatable with home treatments such as rest, ice, elevation, compression and over-the-counter anti-inflammatories. If these treatments fail, it may be beneficial to consult an orthopedic sports medicine specialist for further evaluation and treatment. The practice of Sports Medicine involves a large array of treatment options which may include physical therapy, activity modification, neuromuscular retraining, autologous blood product injections, steroid injections, advanced imaging, and as a last resort surgical treatment.
Today many more patients are seeking out treatment from a sports medicine specialist to continue to perform at the highest level. Orthopedic sports medicine specialists see an ever increasing population of overuse injuries secondary to over training and lack of cross-training with the competitive nature of year around sports.
Severe acute injuries and chronic injuries not amenable to home treatments often require the evaluation of a sports medicine specialist to have the optimal result. There are often many treatment options available and consultation with a sports medicine specialist may offer guidance to the best treatment for each individual athlete.
Mid-America Orthopedics Sports Medicine
Treatment & Services
- Shoulder
- Rotator Cuff Tears
- Shoulder Dislocations
- Labral Tears
- SLAP Tears
- Subacromial Impingement
- Nerve Impingement
- Biceps Tendon Injuries
- Shoulder (AC) Separations
- Cartilage Lesions
- Clavicle fractures
- Glenoid fractures
- Knee
- ACL Tears
- Meniscal Tears
- Ligament Injuries
- Patellar Dislocations/Instability
- Cartilage Lesions
- Knee Dislocations/Multi-Ligament Injuries
- Femur and tibia fractures
- Hip
- Labral Tears
- Snapping Hip Syndrome
- Cartilage Lesions
- FAI (impingement)
- Avascular necrosis of the hip
- Stress fractures of the hip
- Elbow
- Ligament Injury (UCL tear)
- Stiffness
- Loose Body Removal
- Osteophyte Removal
- Avascular necrosis of the capitellum
- Radial head fractures
- Olecranon fractures
- Distal humerus fractures
- Ligament Injury (UCL tear)
- Ankle
- Debridement
- Ankle fractures
- Ankle sprains
- Foot fractures
- Lisfranc sprains
- Cartilage Lesions
Mid-America Orthopedics
athletic training
At Mid-America Orthopedics, our Athletic Training staff is comprised of highly qualified, multi-skilled health professionals, who focus on prevention, care, and rehabilitation of athletic injuries.
Our Athletic Trainers also work in our clinics; they closely follow their athletes through the range of care, when a referral to one of our sports medicine physicians or physical therapists is needed.
Sports Medicine
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