UPMC Sports Medicine to Hold Weekly Sports Injury Clinics
PITTSBURGH, Sept. 9, 2009 – Committed to providing local high school athletes with timely and high-quality care, UPMC Sports Medicine will host acute sports injury clinics beginning at 7:45 a.m. every Saturday from now through Nov. 7 at the UPMC Center for Sports Medicine, 3200 S. Water St., South Side.
Staffed by UPMC primary care sports medicine physicians and certified athletic trainers, the clinic provides evaluation and treatment for a variety of acute sports-related injuries. Athletes with injuries of questionable severity should go to the emergency room, unless advised otherwise by a certified health care professional.
Registration is required. Call UPMC Sports Medicine at (412) 432-3775 before 11 p.m. on Friday to be accepted into the next day’s clinic. Athletes must be accompanied by a parent or legal guardian. Initial evaluations are free, but any tests – such as X-rays – will be billed to insurance. For more information about the acute sports injury clinics and other events at the UPMC Center for Sports Medicine, access the online calendar.
About the UPMC Center for Sports Medicine
The UPMC Center for Sports Medicine, located within the UPMC Sports Performance Complex on Pittsburgh’s South Side, employs the region’s largest staff of certified athletic trainers, specialized physical therapists, orthopaedic surgeons and physicians as well as leading clinical and research specialists in sports concussion management, nutrition, mental training, injury prevention, performance training and aging athletes. The center’s orthopaedists are part of the UPMC Department of Orthopaedic Surgery, currently ranked ninth in the nation by peers in the U.S. News & World Report Best Hospitals annual survey. The comprehensive staff tends to the daily sports medicine needs of athletes at 44 local high schools, eight local colleges, the University of Pittsburgh Panthers, the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Pittsburgh Penguins, as well as professional dancers in the Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre and several other athletic organizations. The center’s staff also treats many recreational and amateur athletes as well as non-athletes who have injuries or conditions related to physical activity.