Insights from high-functioning, healthy individuals such as athletes can inform treatments that help patients regain strength, resilience and overall health.
Video Highlights
- Experience caring for professional athletes helps drive innovations in orthopedic surgery, rehabilitation and injury prevention.
- Collaboration with local professional sports teams provides a unique environment for developing and refining new treatment approaches.
- Techniques developed for elite athletes can be translated to benefit recreational athletes and non-athlete patients.
- Community outreach and education initiatives help extend sports medicine injury-prevention strategies beyond professional sports.
- The goal of sports medicine is not only to treat injuries, but also to accelerate safe recovery and return patients to the activities that are meaningful to them.
Chairman of the Department of Orthopedics, Kevin Varner, MD, and David Lintner, MD, discuss how their treatment of professional athletes translates to treating everyday patients.
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