Sports medicine

What is sports medicine? At Penn Medicine, it’s specialized care from a team of primary care physicians, physical medicine and rehabilitation doctors, orthopaedic surgeons, physical therapists, sports nutritionists, athletic trainers, and other providers dedicated to keeping you active and healthy.

Our team is experienced in the field and works together to diagnose and treat even the most complex injuries.

We provide an accurate diagnosis and a full range of nonsurgical and surgical treatment options for every type of sports injury. You will receive a personalized treatment plan, so you can return to your normal activities as soon as possible and experience a faster, fuller recovery. This may include orthobiologic treatments that use the body’s own cells to speed up the recovery of damaged tissues. For people with cartilage injuries, we have specialists at our Cartilage Center who offer complete cartilage care and rehabilitation. Our Hip Preservation Center focuses on early diagnosis and treatment of hip problems in young and active adults, offering innovative nonsurgical and surgical procedures to reduce pain, preserve hip functionality, and potentially delay or prevent hip replacement.

We proudly treat patients of all athletic abilities—from beginners to professional athletes, including the Philadelphia Flyers, the Philadelphia 76ers, the Philadelphia Union, and the US Squash National Team.

As a prominent regional center for sports medicine, we are actively involved in research to find advanced treatments for common and challenging orthopaedic and musculoskeletal conditions. Our program offers:

As a prominent sports medicine program in the southeastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey region, our patients and the sports teams that we provide care to receive access to:

• Multiple specialists, often in one convenient location, providing integrated care and added convenience.
• Advanced musculoskeletal imaging technology, such as KneeKG, for diagnosis and ultrasound-guided treatments, which are performed right in many of our office locations.
• Many clinicians who are actively involved in research to find advanced treatments for common and challenging sports medicine conditions.
• Individualized treatment plans that offer ongoing care from diagnosis to treatment and follow-up rehabilitation.
• Penn Orthopaedics surgeons who perform some of the highest volume of sports medicine procedures in the region and are internationally renowned for their expertise in advanced treatment options.
• Experts in the latest minimally invasive techniques, like arthroscopy, that lead to shorter hospital stays, faster recovery, and minimal scarring.
• An advanced pain management plan that reduces or eliminates the need for narcotics by combining physical therapy, corticosteroid injections, anti-inflammatory medication, and behavioral and cognitive therapy.
• Coverage for recreational, high school, college, and professional athletic performances, including injury prevention and education, immediate on-site care, and follow up treatment and rehabilitation.
• Sports-related flexibility, strength and conditioning, nutrition, and cardiac screening consults at certain locations.
• Sports science and rehabilitation services at certain locations, including anti-gravity treadmills, bicycle fittings, body composition and gait analyses, and VO2 max.