Our team of pediatric experts specializes in the treatment and prevention of sports injuries in student athletes of all ages and skill levels.
Whether your patient’s sports-related injury happened in a stadium or the neighborhood park, our staff of doctors, athletic trainers and physical therapists are ready to provide age-appropriate care and get your patient back in the game.
Access Resources: If you are seeking specific resources for your practice or patient families, please contact us via phone at (614) 355-6000 or via email at SportsMedicine@NationwideChildrens.org.
Resources For Families
Access resources to share with your patients and their families. Featured resources, as well as links to our full Helping Hands library and Sports Medicine articles library, are available below.
Little league elbow is a painful inflammation of the bony bump on the inside of the elbow where the tendons of the muscles that bend your wrist and fingers are located. Little league elbow occurs as a result of overuse to the muscles of the elbow and forearm from activities such as throwing a ball.
Young athletes train long hours for their sport. In order to optimize that training, proper nutrition needs to be a regular component of their workout plan. A car needs fuel to run properly just as people need a healthful eating plan.
Spondylolysis is a stress or fatigue fracture of an area of the spine called the pars interarticularis. This injury is commonly seen in adolescent athletes complaining of low back pain.
The meniscus is a C-shaped structure in the knee that acts as a shock absorber between the thigh bone (femur) and the shin bone (tibia). The meniscus can tear due to a blow to the knee, twisting, pivoting, kneeling, squatting or fast change in running direction.
The Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship helps fellows develop and refine the skills necessary to become a well-trained sports medicine and musculoskeletal specialist by offering experience in clinical, teaching, research and research.
Please join us for the 2025 Pediatric Sports Medicine and Orthopedics Conference. This conference is designed for health care providers who treat pediatric patients with sports medicine injuries and orthopedic problems.
This episode discusses the cause, diagnosis, management, and prevention of patellofemoral pain syndrome, Osgood-Schlatter disease, Sinding-Larsen-Johansson syndrome, meniscal tears, patellar dislocation, and your every day sprains and strains.
