Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center – Chestnut Hill
About Our Sports Medicine Services
Our sports medicine specialists at our Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center – Chestnut Hill (BIDMC – Chestnut Hill) treat a wide range of athletic-related injuries and conditions, including those that require both surgical and non-surgical treatment options. We also provide strategies and exercises to help prevent injury.
In some situations, we provide same-day appointments to evaluate your injury, and we work closely with the Rehabilitation Therapy team at BIDMC – Chestnut Hill to customize your treatment program. BIDMC – Chestnut Hill also features an on-site radiology suite to help diagnose your injury in one location, with CT scan, ultrasound and diagnostic X-ray.
Conditions We Treat
Our specialists treat the full spectrum of orthopedic disorders and conditions affecting all areas of the body:
- Hand and wrist
- Elbow (tennis, golfer's, throwing injuries)
- Muscle injuries
- Sports concussions
- Shoulder
- Acromioclavicular sprains (shoulder sprains)
- Adhesive capsulitis (frozen shoulder)
- Arthritis
- Bursitis dislocations and subluxations
- Fractures
- Impingement syndrome
- Rotator cuff strains and tears
- Rotator cuff tendonitis
- Shoulder laxity
- Ankle and foot (turf toe)
- Hip and thigh
- Knee
- ACL tears
- Anterior knee pain
- Arthritis
- Articular cartilage injuries
- Colateral ligament sprains & strains (MCL and LCL)
- Cruciate ligament tears (ACL and PCL)
- Knee dislocations and subluxations
- Fractures
- Malalignment
- Meniscal cartilage injuries
- Quadriceps and patellar tendonitis
Treatments & Services
Non-Surgical Expertise
Our staff believes in conservative, non-surgical treatment whenever possible, which can include:
- Counseling on lifestyle changes, such as adjusting workouts or losing weight to ease joint pain
- Medications and injections to reduce inflammation and discomfort
- Physical and occupational therapy to improve strength and balance
- Assistive devices such as braces and shoe modifications to provide external stability
- Trigger point injections and dry needling for muscle pain
Surgical Options
We use advanced methods to evaluate and treat injuries when needed, including:
- Minimally invasive procedures for shoulder, knee, elbow, wrist, hand, ankle and foot injuries
- Arthroscopic techniques for shoulder, knee, elbow, wrist, hand, ankle and foot injuries
- Non-invasive (non-surgical) and rehabilitation therapies for overuse injuries and chronic pain
Our Running Clinic helps athletes recover from and prevent injury. Our physical therapists work together with sports medicine physicians to help you achieve your running goals. In our clinic, a sports medicine physician and physical therapist will:
- Review your medical history and current training program
- Assess your footwear
- Examine your flexibility, strength, balance posture and foot structure (musculoskeletal examination)
- Analyze your running using video gait analysis (biomechanical assessment)
Assessing Your Run
We videotape you running a short distance on the treadmill. Using special motion-analysis software, we analyze your run frame-by-frame to assess your biomechanics — how smoothly ligaments, tendons, bones and muscles work together to generate movement.
After the evaluation, we review all of the findings with you and give you a DVD and handouts from the gait analysis.
Personal Treatment
We develop a personalized treatment plan that takes your goals into consideration. Treatment may consist of exercise, manual therapy, footwear recommendation and/or orthotic fitting, and if appropriate, guidelines for a progressive return to running.
We may also recommend slight changes to your running form. This is called gait retraining. We may ask you to run in front of a mirror or to the beat of a metronome to adjust your biomechanics. These adjustments can help resolve your pain and prevent injury.
By bringing conscious attention to details such as not letting your knees drop in, we can help correct your form. These recommendations are based on today’s research in running biomechanics.
