Sports Medicine: What We Treat

Your child could sustain a number of injuries while playing sports. Here is a sampling of the more common injuries that the Sports Medicine Center at Children’s has encountered among adolescent athletes. Also included, where applicable, is information about the injury as well as other related services that Children’s offers.

Hip

• Hip overuse injuries
• Labral tears
• Femoral acetabular impingement
• Avulsion fractures
• Dysplasia
• Slipped Capital Femoral Epiphysis

Knee

• Growth plate fractures
• Knee pain/ injury
• Cartilage injury
• Ligament injury
• ACL Injury/ Tear
• MCL Injury
• PCL Injury
• Meniscus Injury
• Locked Knee
• Discoid meniscus
• OCD – Dissecans Osteochondritis
• Osgood-Schlatter’s disease (pain below the kneecap)
• Knee dislocation
• Patellar (knee cap) dislocation
• Patellofemoral syndrome / Anterior Knee Pain
• Tibial spine fracture
• Sinding-Larsen-Johansson disease (Jumper’s Knee)

Lower Leg

• Shin Splints

Foot and Ankle

• Cartilage injury
• Ligament injury
• OCD – Osteochondritis Dissecans
• Talus / talar cartilage problem
• Growth plate fractures
• Ankle sprain
• Tendonitis
• Heel pain/ Sever’s disease

Back

• Stress fractures (Spondylolysis, spondylosithesis)
• Back strain

Shoulder

• Dislocation
• Ligament injury
• Locking
• Looseness
• Clavicle fractures
• Labral tears
• Rotator cuff overuse injury
• Shoulder dislocation
• Shoulder separation
• Little-league shoulder
• Swimmer’s Shoulder

Elbow/Wrist/Hand

• Cartilage injury
• Ligament injury
• Little league elbow
• Locking / popping / stiffness
• OCD – Osteochondritis
• Pitching elbow
• Tendonitis
• Gymnast’s wrist
• Growth plate fractures

Additional problems associated with sports

• Concussions
• Female Athlete Triad
• Menstrual irregularities (athletic amenorrhea)
• Eating disorders in athletes
• Nutrition and supplement issues in athletes
• Weight management
• Dehydration/Heat illness
• Asthma
• Exercise-induced asthma
• Exercise-induced abdominal pain
• Rashes/acne (tinea rashes)
• Hypertrophic Cardiomyopathy
• Syncope
• Eye Trauma /Eye injuries
• MRSA (Methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus)