Sports Medicine
Prevention, evaluation, and management of illness and injury in athletic and physically active patients
The term “Sports medicine” is used by various groups of people to confer a multitude of different meanings and fields of study. From Chiropractors to personal trainers in your local gym, from Orthopedic Surgeons to athletic trainers at your child’s local high school – the term is sometimes claimed by people in all of these professions.
Although each of these positions may fall within the very large scope of treating athletes and/or active patients, the term, as pertaining to this website and the information within, will be the following: “Sports Medicine is a sub-specialty branch of medicine dealing with the prevention, evaluation, and management of illness and injury in athletic and physically active patients”.
A “SM Specialist” is a Board-Certified Physician (M.D., or D.O) with unique and specialized medical training in both the treatment and prevention of illness and injury. For more information, please visit AMSSM.org.
Epidural/Caudal Steroid Injections
Bio-identical hormones are not synthetic hormones, but natural, organic, and plant derived.
Facet Joint Injections
If you are living with chronic, unmanageable pain from facet syndrome or spinal arthritis, this injection approach offers both a quick resolution and long term relief.
Prolotherapy
Proliferation Injection Therapy is the surgical injection procedure used to stimulate natural healing.
Sacroiliac Joint Injection
The SI joint injection have a dual, diagnostic and therapeutic, purpose that allows the physician to confirm that irritation or damage to the SI joint is the source of your symptoms and also offer significant pain relief.
Medial Branch Blocks
Performed to block pain signals sent from the medial branch nerves, which supply the facet joints.
Viscosupplementation Injections
Viscosupplementation could be considered in patients who have persistent pain despite the use of conservative therapy or other sypmtoms.
Botox for Chronic Migraines
Are you having 15 or more headache days a month? Is each headache lasting 4 hours or more? You may have chronic migraine.