Sports Medicine

Sports medicine is the branch of medicine that involves diagnosis, treatment and prevention of injuries resulting from sports-related activity. Many of the board-certified and fellowship-trained physicians at Kansas City Orthopaedic Institute have decades of experience serving as team physicians in professional sports, as well as college and high school athletics. Our sports medicine specialists provide customized, comprehensive orthopedic care for a wide range of athletic injuries, including:

• Shin splints
• Tennis Elbow
• Sprained or torn ACL (anterior cruciate ligament)
• Sprained or torn MCL (medial collateral ligament)
• Hamstring injuries
• Leg, foot and ankle sprains and fractures
• Meniscus tears
• Hip fractures
• Torn ligaments
• Rotator cuff tears
• Groin injuries
• Shoulder and elbow fractures
• Knee fractures and knee sprains
• Separated or dislocated joints
• Muscle contusions
• Hand and wrist fractures and sprains