Sports Medicine
From coverage of high school and college sporting events to providing care for the Chicago Bears at Olivette Nazarene University during training camp, OAK Orthopedics is strongly committed to the care of our communities’ athletes. Our staff is highly-trained in all areas of sports medicine, including: preventative medicine, non-operative treatment of sports injuries, and minimally invasive or arthroscopic surgery of the shoulder, knee, hip, and elbow.
OAK SportsMedicine™ is pleased to have a team of fellowship-trained physicians dedicated to the care and treatment of sports injuries, including Drs. Corcoran, Forsythe, Ellis, and Lee. Our doctors have trained at internationally-renowned programs for Sports Medicine, such as the American Sports Medicine Institute and The University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. Our doctors have extensive training and experience with NFL, MLB, NHL, MLS, and Olympic athletes. All of our sports medicine doctors travel internationally with U.S. Soccer, providing care for our nation’s premiere soccer players.
Our team is also involved in research and development of treatment algorithms and surgical techniques, having published extensively in peer-reviewed academic journals such as:
- The Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
- The American Journal of Sports Medicine.
Our doctors are actively engaged with national and international sports medicine academies, such as:
- The American Orthopedic Society for Sports Medicine
- The International Society for Arthroscopy
- Knee Surgery and Sports Medicine
- The American College of Sports Medicine.
Our sports medicine doctors treat the full spectrum of athletic injuries: ACL, meniscus, and cartilage injuries of the knee, rotator cuff and labral tears of the shoulder, labral tears of the hip, “Tommy-John” ligament reconstructions of the elbow, traumatic fractures, and so forth. Whether it’s providing care for recreational, high-school, or professional athletes, our doctors are fully dedicated to returning athletes to the playing field.
Please refer to The OAK Sports Medicine Quarterly Newsletter for our most recent sports medicine updates.
In This Section
