Orthopedics
You give it your all every time you’re on the field, track or court. You need the same level of commitment from your sports medicine team. That’s what you’ll find at OSF HealthCare. Our specialists include former athletes who know how important it is to get you back in the game safely. From injury prevention to rehabilitation, our services help you keep doing what you love.
Visit OSF HealthCare for a diagnosis and treatment of almost any athletic injury, including:
Whenever possible, care starts with conservative treatments. They require less downtime and have a lower risk of side effects than surgery, so you can return to play sooner.
Rehabilitation eases pain and helps you regain the use of an injured part of your body. At OSF HealthCare, you have access to a wide range of specialized therapies, including:
Ask your orthopedic doctor about platelet-rich plasma (PRP) injections, which deliver a high dose of healing platelets from your blood to an injured area. To begin PRP therapy, a health care professional draws a small amount of blood from your body. The blood then goes through a procedure that increases the platelets, which have proteins that support healing. Finally, a doctor injects the platelet-enriched plasma into the injured area of your body to reduce pain and inflammation.
If your physical activities put you at risk of a head injury, you may benefit from OSF HealthCare’s concussion services. Athletic trainers, physical therapists and other health professionals can provide:
Injections deliver medicine straight to the site of your injury. That means you can receive higher doses than you could take by mouth, and the medicine targets only the injured area of your body. Your doctor may use ultrasound to guide the injection. This makes treatment more effective. Ask about the right type of injection for your situation:
Surgery is sometimes the best treatment option for an athletic injury. Your surgeon will take the least invasive approach possible to treat your condition. Often, that means using an arthroscope—a tube with a light and camera that shows the inside of an injured joint. Arthroscopy requires only small incisions. So, you recover faster and more easily than you would after traditional surgery, which uses a long incision. You may even go home on the same day as treatment.
Learn more about surgery at OSF HealthCare.
OSF HealthCare partners with select athletic departments to connect student-athletes with specialists in:
OSF HealthCare is the official health care provider for Illinois Wesleyan University and Illinois State University athletics.
Robert Seidl, MD, serves as medical director, working closely with Karan Rai, MD.
OSF HealthCare and Great Plain Orthopedics are the official sports medicine partners for Bradley Athletics.
Ask your primary care doctor for a referral to a sports medicine specialist or rehabilitation therapist at OSF HealthCare. Need a primary care provider? Browse our directory.