At Children’s Orthopaedics of Atlanta (COA), our Sports Medicine Team is specifically dedicated to caring for the young athlete. Child and adolescent bodies are very different from adults and so are their sports. That is why we treat everything from bumps, bruises, concussions and injuries that require rehabilitation and sometime surgery.

A unique feature of the COA Sports Medicine Team is that we utilize primary care sports medicine physicians, in addition to highly skilled orthopaedic surgeons. These primary care sports physicians are non-surgical specialists. Their expertise is managing illness and injury without surgery. Surprisingly, 90% of all sports related injuries are treated non-surgically. And in the event that surgery is ultimately needed, COA’s orthopaedic sports medicine surgeons are among the top in the field.

This expert team understands that it is not enough to just treat the injury. We also focus on minimizing “bench time” due to the injury and maximizing the future performance of the recovering athlete. We know the importance of collaborating with the athlete’s other physicians, therapists, coaches and parents to achieve these goals. In fact, it is not uncommon to even see a member of the COA Sports Medicine team providing medical coverage for many of the high school athletic teams in the community.

Providing this hands-on medical coverage sometimes allows the team to witness injuries as they occur. And it is not uncommon to find certain injuries associated with a particular sport. But unfortunately, some conditions and injuries are common across the board.