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Treating Your Sports Medicine Injury

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Banner Sports Medicine specialists will thoroughly evaluate your complaints and perform a complete physical exam. If necessary, an x-ray or MRI may need to be ordered. We will explain your diagnosis and will review a comprehensive treatment plan to help you get back to your previous activity level.

What are my treatment options?

Depending on your injury, the experts at Banner offer several different treatment options to help you recover, including:

Physical therapy

Your provider will prescribe a physical therapy program to treat your injury.  Banner Health's physical therapists have broad expertise in treating all sports injuries. Learn more about physical therapy

Regenerative medicine

Regenerative medicine is a nonsurgical method of harnessing the body’s own healing responses. It directs therapy right to the source of the pain or injury, utilizing growth factors to jumpstart the healing process. This includes PRP (platelet-rich plasma) injections and stem cell therapy, both of which are effective for chronic tendon issues and osteoarthritis of certain joints. PRP injections use concentrated platelets from your own blood to promote healing in damaged tissues, while stem cell therapy helps regenerate injured body parts. These treatments are minimally invasive and aim to reduce pain and swelling while enhancing recovery. Learn more about regenerative therapy

Change shoes and sports equipment

Sometimes preventing an injury is as simple as changing out your shoes or ensuring you’re using the correct sports equipment.

Splints or braces

No matter the extent of your injury, Banner Health can provide splints, casts, knee braces or ankle braces to make sure your injury heals properly.

Injection therapy 

Sometimes, injection therapy can help your body heal quicker and decrease pain. Your physician will discuss what options are available for your specific condition.

Surgery

Banner’s expert staff includes sports medicine orthopedic surgeons that are ready to help fix any serious injury.

Let the sports medicine experts at Banner Health treat any sports-related ailments and get you on the road to recovery today.