Sports Medicine Services at Banner Children's at Thunderbird

Keeping Your Child Athlete Healthy

We get it. Kids play hard. Sometimes, that means your kid will get hurt. Banner Children’s at Thunderbird gets kids. Our sports medicine program is made to get them back to being a kid as quickly and safely as possible.

We do what’s best for your child. Our on-site sports medicine physicians and complete rehabilitation programs for athletes can help your child with injury prevention and performance enhancement training. Services we provide include:

• Sports injuries
• Arthroscopic treatment of shoulder, elbow, hip, knee and ankle injuries
• ACL reconstruction
• Meniscal repair
• Shoulder labral repair
• Rotator cuff repair
• Ankle instability reconstruction

If your child is serious about sports, you’ll want to consider our performance enhancement program. We designed this program to keep kids from getting injured in the first place. It features:

• State-of-the-art motion analysis to review and improve skill.
• Close cooperation with coaches from area middle and high schools on conditioning, injury prevention and injury treatment.
• Expertise for local athletes to keep them on the field, in the game and injury free.