Every year, millions of American children, teenagers, and adults injure themselves while participating in sports. Whether you’re a student-athlete, weekend warrior, or pro, if you injure yourself, you need expert treatment so you can recover and return to your beloved sport safely.
This is often where the experienced physicians and sports medicine experts at M.O.S.T. Metro Orthopedics & Sports Therapy come into play. They offer expert diagnosis and treatment to athletes of all abilities in and around Potomac, Maryland.
However, sports medicine covers much more than injuries. Check out these reasons to have a sports medicine doctor.
Injury treatment
Yes, we said injuries aren’t the only reason to have a sports medicine expert on your team. However, with millions of athletes suffering injuries, from sprains and dislocations to concussions, injury treatment is a critical sports medicine function.
Our team provides thorough exams and diagnostic testing to identify your injury and evaluate its severity. Common injuries we see include:
- Knee ligament tears
- Meniscus and cartilage damage
- Rotator cuff tears
- Sprains and strains
- Tendinitis
Our team provides personalized treatment to help you recover. Depending on your needs, you might benefit from physical therapy, acupuncture, immobilization, or regenerative medicine. In severe cases, our expert orthopedic surgeons can repair your injury during an operation.
Getting expert treatment is critical to your recovery. If you don’t heal correctly or you try to go back to training and competition too soon, you increase your risk of reinjury.
Injury prevention
While no sport is 100% risk-free, working with a sports medicine expert can help you reduce your risk of injury. Sports injuries are often due to inadequate training methods, structural abnormalities, and musculoskeletal weaknesses.
For example, instability in your ankle can result in an abnormal gait, causing muscular imbalances throughout your body. Those can lead to various injuries, from ankle sprains to lower back problems.
Our team provides thorough evaluations to identify structural issues and areas of weakness. We offer tailored physical therapy programs to address these issues specifically.
As you build strength, flexibility, and stamina, you can target areas of imbalance, instability, and weakness, which reduces your risk of injury.
Enhanced performance
Arguably, the best part of this specifically targeted physical therapy and training is that you get faster, more agile, and stronger. Ultimately, you enhance your performance and develop the skills and strength you need to crush the competition.
Whether or not you have an injury, if you’re an athlete, you can benefit from personalized sports medicine. Call M.O.S.T. Metro Orthopedics & Sports Therapy today or make an appointment online to meet with our sports medicine team.
We can help you stay safe and reach, even surpass, your goals.
