Sports Medicine and Sports Injury
Comprehensive Orthopaedic Care for Sports Injuries and Sports-related Conditions
Loyola Medicine’s team of sports medicine specialists provides comprehensive, integrated orthopaedic and sports medicine care, whether you are a professional, college or high school athlete, or active weekend sports enthusiast, or have a physically demanding job. Our women's sports medicine program provides comprehensive care for the individualized needs of female athletes.
We stress immediate or same-day access and early, individual specific intervention to provide accurate diagnosis and proper, timely treatment in order to accelerate your return to activities.
Loyola’s multispecialty fellowship-trained sports medicine doctors, orthopaedic surgeons, primary care doctors, athletic trainers and physical therapists provide services to prevent injuries, maintain physical health and optimize performance.
Loyola’s surgeons have extensive experience with the latest minimally invasive and advanced surgical techniques that will allow you to return to your sport, activity or job with minimal downtime.
Loyola’s sports medicine team treats a wide range of conditions and injuries from the simple to the complex, including:
- Achilles bursitis or tendinitis
- ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) injuries
- Adhesive capsulitis or “frozen shoulder”
- Axillary nerve injury
- Bone spurs
- Burners and stingers
- Chronic tendon pain
- Concussion Program
- Dislocations and separations
- Elbow hyperextension
- Fractures
- Hamstring muscle injuries
- Heat injury and heat exhaustion
- High school sports injuries
- Joint instability and tears
- Lateral epicondylitis (“tennis elbow”)
- Ligament injuries
- Medial epicondylitis or “golfer’s elbow”
- Muscle contusion (bruises)
- Muscle cramps
- Meniscal tears
- Osteochondritis dissecans
- Overuse or repetition injuries
- Patellar tendon tear
- Patellofemoral pain syndrome (PFPS) or “runner’s knee”
- Plantar fasciitis
- Quadriceps tendon tear
- Rotator cuff tears
- Shin splints
- Sports hernia (athletic pubalgia)
- Sports physicals
- Sprains, strains and other soft tissue injuries
- Stress fractures
- Tendinitis and bursitis
- Tendon tears
- Tenosynovitis
- Throwing injuries (elbow and shoulder)
- Turf toe (sprain around the big toe joint)
- Ulna fractures
- Women's sports medicine injuries
Whether you are a high school, college, recreational or professional athlete, Loyola’s sports medicine team has the expertise to help you to stay in the game.
If an athlete suffers a head injury or is suspected of having a concussion, call Loyola’s sports injury hotline at 708-216-4263 to make an appointment.
Why Choose Loyola for Sports Medicine and Sports Injury Treatment?
As members of the Stritch School of Medicine faculty, Loyola’s sports medicine doctors are nationally and internationally acclaimed academic leaders in sports medicine education and research. As nationally recognized leaders in the research of injury prevention, Loyola’s sports medicine doctors consult athletes on their risk factors and perform motion analysis for young competitors, adult weekend athletes as well as professional athletes.
Loyola’s doctors serve as team physicians and have expertise in a wide spectrum of sports, including basketball, baseball, soccer, hockey, gymnastics and running. Sharing our knowledge through educational programs, we help athletes learn how to excel and diminish risk of injury.
Loyola’s sports medicine doctors are the official healthcare providers for local university athletic teams, among them Loyola University Chicago, University of St. Francis and more than 10 high schools. Professional, college, high school and club league athletes receive streamlined access and support, coordinated by Loyola’s medical providers.
In addition, Loyola’s sports medicine doctors are respected consultants to major athletic associations, including the U.S. Soccer Federation and U.S.A. Hockey.
Loyola’s clinicians understand that proper diagnosis of a problem is the best way to address the root cause of a sports-related pain or injury. We use the following imaging tools to diagnose and fully understand your injury:
- Arthroscopy
- Bone density (DXA) scanning
- Complete physical exam
- Electrodiagnostic testing
- Motion analysis system, which uses camera sensors to see how an athlete moves
- X-ray
How are Sports Injuries Treated?
Loyola’s highly skilled sports medicine specialists use a variety of non-surgical options to treat athletic injuries. Surgery may be recommended by your doctor when other options will not work or have failed.
If surgery is required, Loyola’s experienced, multidisciplinary team will offer minimally invasive treatment options whenever possible, which means less time in the hospital and a shorter recovery time.
Consultations for Injury Prevention and Sports Performance
Loyola's sports injury prevention and performance program offers specialized consultations for performance optimization, injury prevention and sports performance programs in a variety of sports including:
- Running
- Tennis
- Soccer
- Football
- Baseball
- Gymnastics
- Dance
- Other sports and athletic activities
Request an Appointment
Our skilled orthopaedic surgeons and clinicians are among the best in the nation across all orthopaedic care specialties and will tailor a treatment and rehabilitation plan that’s right for every patient. Schedule an appointment today.
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Our Locations
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Loyola Center for Health at Gottlieb
675 W North Ave - Professional Office Bldg
Ste 201, 206, 210, 214, 414, 416 & 508
Melrose Park, IL 60160
Phone: (888)584-7888
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Loyola Medicine Burr Ridge
6800 N Frontage Rd
Burr Ridge, IL 60527
Phone: (888)584-7888
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Loyola Medicine Elmhurst
300 N York Rd
Elmhurst, IL 60126
Phone: (708)327-7030
Office
Loyola Medicine Oakbrook Terrace
1S224 and 1S260 Summit Ave
Oakbrook Terrace, IL 60181
Phone: (888)584-7888
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Loyola Medicine River Forest
7617 W North Ave
River Forest, IL 60305
Phone: (708)771-1300
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Loyola Outpatient Center
2160 S First Ave
Maywood, IL 60153
Phone: (888)584-7888