Deals with physical health and provides treatment of injuries related to competition, playing sports and doing exercises.

Treatment for a sport-related injury depends on the type of injury, but minor ones can usually be treated at home by resting, icing, compressing, and elevating the injured part of the body. For more serious injuries, professional medical management is required. In some cases, you may need surgery. The sport medicine doctor can help diagnose sport-related injuries, may recommend a variety of treatments, provide pain management, may refer you to a specialist, often an orthopedics, a maxillofacial or an ENT specialist, and participate to the design of a rehabilitation program which is usually recommended before resuming the sport that caused the injury.

Rehabilitation is crucial for recovering from sport-related injuries. Physical therapy, strength and conditioning exercises, and other interventions can reduce pain, inflammation, and restore function to the injured area. Other tools such as taping and bracing can provide support and promote healing. Working closely with a team of professionals is key to a successful recovery, allowing athletes to return to their sport with renewed strength and confidence.

Our team is dedicated to provide evaluation, advice and care to active individuals of all levels including professional athletes. We care for people of all ages who love to be active, want to start a sport, would like to check their fitness or enhance their performance. We provide advice on sport-related injury prevention. We have specialists to treat all types of sport-related injuries and provide customized rehabilitation programs. Advanced Surgical Associates has an array of specialists such Sport Medicine doctor, dieticians and nutritionists, orthopedics, cardiologists, endocrinologists, ENT and maxillofacial surgeons, and many more, as well as physiotherapists and osteopaths.

Sports Medicine doctor provides physical and fitness evaluation, including the full pre-participation physical evaluation programs, assesses your risk factors and your ability to participate in sports or physical activity, provides advice on fitness enhancement, training, injury prevention or refers you to other specialists like dietician, cardiologist, pulmonologist.

Sport-related injuries most often affect the musculoskeletal system. The musculoskeletal system is the network of muscles, tendons, ligaments, bones, and other tissues that provides the body with stability and enables movement. The most common injuries include sprains (ligament tear), strains (tendon or muscle tear), tendonitis, bursitis, dislocations, and fractures. Injuries can affect the shoulder (rotator cuff), the elbow (tennis elbow, golfer’s elbow), the knee (anterior cruciate ligament tear or rupture meniscal tear, runner’s knee), the legs (shin splints, hamstring strain), the ankle (ankle sprain, Achilles tendonitis), the face (soft tissue injuries, fractures of the nose, zygoma, mandible, damage to orbital sockets, as well as dentoalveolar trauma), the head (concussions), and many other parts of your body.

Sports medicine specialists, chiropractors, physiotherapists, professional trainers can give advice on injury prevention. This may include fitness plan, stretching exercises, training program, advice on the right techniques to play your sport, and on the right equipment and protective gear, as well as general advice like having adequate nutrition and sleep, maintaining good hydration, and ensuring proper healing of a previous injury. It is important for athletes to improve their strength, flexibility, coordination, speed, and power in order to prevent injuries. Chiropractors have extensive knowledge of the musculoskeletal system and are able to identify any areas of your body that are likely to be prone to injury. They can also recommend treatments and exercises which will strengthen the weaker areas, making you less likely to get hurt.