Sports Medicine

With a focus on shoulder, elbow, hip, and knee injuries, we help athletes and people with active lifestyles get back to doing what they love. Some of the more common sports injuries we treat are:

• Achilles tendon tears
• ACL (anterior cruciate ligament) injuries.
• Cartilage injuries including transplants.
• Dislocations
• Golfer’s elbow and tennis elbow.
• Hip impingement
• Hip labrum tears
• Meniscus tears
• MCL (medial collateral ligament) injuries.
• Overuse injuries, such as IT band syndrome, tendonitis, and shin splints.
• Rotator cuff tears
• Shoulder impingement
• Shoulder instability
• Shoulder labrum tears
• Sprains or strains
• Stress fractures

We provide complete sports medicine care, from conservative treatments to surgery.

Depending on your condition, we may start with nonsurgical treatments such as:

• Physical therapy, including aquatic therapy, to help increase strength, flexibility, and range of motion. We have detailed physical therapy protocols tailored to each patient’s specific needs, allowing us to achieve the greatest results for patients. Learn more about our physical therapy service.
• Medication to treat and reduce pain, inflammation, and swelling.
• Injections to relieve pain and speed healing, such as platelet-rich plasma (PRP) or injections, peripheral joint injections.
• Shockwave therapy, a non-invasive treatment using high-energy sound waves to stimulate healing, increase blood flow, promote collagen production, and accelerate recovery for active individuals with pain unresponsive to conventional treatments.

If you need surgery to relieve pain and get you back in the game, our surgeons offer the latest surgical techniques. This includes minimally invasive surgery and arthroscopy, as well as robot-assisted surgery. We’re proud to offer opioid-sparing and minimizing techniques for pain management during and after surgery. This multimodal approach ensures that our patients are both safe and comfortable.

Arthroscopy requires only small incisions. Athletes appreciate that they heal more quickly after an arthroscopic procedure than a traditional surgery. We commonly perform:

• Arthroscopic ACL reconstruction
• Cartilage transplantation
• Elbow arthroscopy
• Hip arthroscopy
• Knee arthroscopy
• Shoulder arthroscopy

We also specialize in joint replacement surgery (arthroplasty) for athletes. This surgery removes all or part of a damaged joint and replaces it with an artificial joint. For athletes, the most common procedure is shoulder replacement surgery.

Our surgeons successfully complete hundreds of sports medicine procedures each year at ONS’ state-of-the-art Stamford Ambulatory Surgery Center (ASC).