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Your musculoskeletal health is the foundation of staying healthy and active. Loyola Medicine wants to help maintain this foundation to keep you moving for years to come.
Comprehensive Sports Medicine Care for Active Women
Whether you're a recreational, high school, collegiate, or professional athlete, the highly trained and experienced physicians at Loyola Medicine are ready to help. Our network of physicians not only focuses on injury prevention and treatment, but also on maintaining a high level of athletic performance.
Some specific areas of focus include:
All-Around Health: In order to stay fit and active, it’s important to optimize all aspects of physical and mental health – from physical therapy and hydration to combating fear and anxiety following an injury – to improve your results.
Longevity: We want to help you stay active and healthy for years to come. This program will identify and mitigate many factors that can contribute to injuries in active girls and women.
Preventing Injuries: Injury prevention is an important component of the Women’s Sports Medicine Program at Loyola Medicine. Our resources and knowledgeable physicians will help raise awareness and provide you with the tools to decrease the risk of injuries.
Research has shown that female athletes are more vulnerable to certain injuries, like ACL tears and stress fractures. We help women reduce the risk of injury by providing education, awareness, and a thorough discussion of treatment options.
Compassionate Care for Female Athletes
Loyola Medicine understands that being an "active" woman can look different for everyone. Whether that's different ages, fitness levels or activities, every woman has a unique foundation that supports her lifestyle.
Whether you're a recreational runner, high school athlete, professional athlete, or all of the above, Loyola's focus is helping active girls and women stay active, without injury.
To schedule an appointment with the Women's Sports Medicine team and learn about these comprehensive services for women, book online using myLoyola or call 888-548-7888.
Patients will have the ability to schedule an appointment with physicians from different specialties depending on their condition or injury.
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 recreational sports enthusiast, or have a physically demanding job.
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.
Female athletes face unique pressures and demands. As such, they benefit from tailored assessment, treatment, and support services related to mental health and sport performance. Using psychological theory, knowledge, and skill, sport psychology addresses the interactions between psychosocial functioning and athletic performance. Patients may have the opportunity to meet with licensed clinical psychologists and psychiatrists with specific training in sport and performance psychology for individual counseling, performance consultation, crisis intervention, medication management, educational programs, and team consultation.
Nutrition is an integral part of your health, whether you are trying to adopt a healthier lifestyle, prevent disease, reach a healthy weight, recover from a serious illness or injury, or wanting to hit the peak of athletic performance. Loyola Medicine's registered dietitians provide expertise tailored to the needs of each patient.
Loyola’s nutrition team collaborates with other clinicians including doctors, nurses, speech therapists and social workers. All patients are screened for possible nutritional deficiencies, to ensure they receive the best treatment and to immediately address problems.
Women are 2-3 times more likely to have pelvic floor dysfunction than men. The Women's Sports Medicine team includes fellowship-trained physician experts in the treatment of pelvic floor dysfunction and pelvic pain. Loyola’s team of highly experienced specialists will evaluate your symptoms, provide you with the correct diagnosis and develop an individualized treatment plan to eliminate or reduce your pain.
Many female athletes have unique obstetric or gynecological challenges. Loyola Medicine provides comprehensive, multidisciplinary obstetrics care for women considering pregnancy, as well as pregnant patients and their developing babies. Patients will also have access to our gynecology specialists who not only offer routine health care for women of all ages but are also trained in the treatment of gynecologic conditions and cancers.
Sports cardiology is an advancing field that encompasses the care of athletes and active individuals with known or previously undiagnosed cardiovascular conditions. Loyola Medicine specializes in the evaluation and care of female athletes. Patients with a wide range of heart conditions will be evaluated, diagnosed, and treated. We help recreational, high school, collegiate, and professional athletes understand their unique physiology and keep their heart and cardiovascular system performing at its best.
Loyola Medicine’s physical therapists provide evaluation, rehabilitation, and treatment for a variety of acute and chronic conditions for hospitalized and ambulatory patients of all ages. Our goals are to educate and assist you in achieving an optimal level of independence and function and promote your health and rehabilitation.
Loyola Medicine’s rheumatology physicians provide truly integrated clinical care for the diagnosis and treatment of patients with all types of arthritis, autoimmune diseases, osteoporosis, connective tissue diseases and other rheumatologic conditions. Rheumatologists focus on conditions and diseases of the joints, muscles and bones.
Loyola Medicine provides exceptional care for the entire spectrum of endocrine disorders. We are known for our expertise in diagnosing and treating a broad range of endocrine conditions and providing integrated services for optimal patient care. Endocrinology is a field that deals with the endocrine system, which controls the hormones in your body.
A neuropsychologist is concerned with how the brain and the rest of the nervous system influence a person's cognition, emotions, and behaviors. A clinical sports neuropsychologist is a sub-specialty that requires extra training in concussion assessment, diagnosis, and counseling of athletes and their families. If a patient has suffered from a brain injury during a physical activity, they may be referred to a clinical sports neuropsychologist.
Meet the Sports Medicine Team
Your Loyola women's sports medicine team includes the following expert clinicians who will support you in all aspects of your care.
Orthopaedic Sports Medicine Surgeon – These surgeons specialize in sports medicine and have been trained to treat all of the musculoskeletal structures that can be affected by training, sports activity, and exercise. They have advanced knowledge of physical conditioning, soft tissue biomechanics, performance and health, and field evaluation. Patients at Loyola will receive treatment for injuries, potential surgery options, help with coordinating medical evaluations with athletic performance goals, and provided education and counseling on injury prevention.
Primary Care Sports Medicine Specialist - Sports medicine physicians focus their practice on health care for athletes and physically active individuals. Sports medicine primary care physicians treat anyone who is physically active to help them improve athletic performance, enhance overall health, prevent injury and maintain their physical activity throughout their lives. Primary care sports medicine is non-surgical care.
Certified Athletic Trainer - Athletic trainers are highly qualified health care professionals who provide treatment, under the direction of or in collaboration with a physician. As part of a health care team, athletic trainers usually provide primary care, injury and illness prevention, wellness promotion and education, examination and clinical diagnosis, therapeutic intervention and rehabilitation of injuries and medical conditions.
Sports Medicine Frequently Asked Questions
Why Choose the Loyola Women's Sports Medicine Program?
Loyola focuses on compassionate, team-based care. Our highly trained, experienced team will work together to help active girls and women, like yourself, maintain high levels of activity and competition and prevent injuries.
Women can expect to work with sports psychologists, nutritionists, physical therapists, primary care sports medicine physicians, orthopaedic sports medicine surgeons, and athletic trainers.
Who can take advantage of the program?
This program is geared towards active girls and women of all ages. It doesn't matter whether you're a student athlete, recreational athlete, professional or someone who simply wants to stay active, this program is designed for you.
Which physicians will I meet with?
This program will bring together many specialties to improve the health of active women. You will have access to orthopaedic sports medicine, primary care sports medicine, sports psychology, sports nutrition, obstetrics and gynecology, sports cardiology, physical therapy, and many others, depending on your specific needs or interests.
Where do I go for my appointment?
The Loyola Women's Sports Medicine Program can be found at:
Loyola Outpatient Center 2160 S. First Ave. Maywood, IL 60153
Loyola Medicine Burr Ridge 6800 N. Frontage Road Burr Ridge, IL 60527
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