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.
News & Updates
Meet Our New Provider:Megan Liberty, DO, cares for athletes from all sport backgrounds and is accepting new patients.
Dr. Liberty is board certified in pediatrics and primary care sports medicine. She has 18 years of professional ballet training and extensive performance experience.
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.
Using “play” to show that exercise can be enjoyable, Play Strong is a fun and exciting program that guides participants to create healthy habits at home.
A shoulder sprain is a stretching or tearing of the Acromioclavicular (AC) ligament. This is located where your collar bone and shoulder meet, often called the AC joint.
The shoulder joint and scapula work and move together to perform the overhead motions that occur in swimming. To perform the overhead motions in swimming correctly, swimmers need a lot of shoulder mobility and stability.
An anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) tear is a sprain of one of the four major ligaments of the knee. The ACL is a rope-like structure that helps maintain the normal position of the femur (thigh bone) and the tibia (leg bone).
Dr. Reno Ravindran and Eric Leighton visit the PediaCast studio as we consider common skin conditions in student athletes. Learn the cause, symptoms, treatment, prevention and return-to-play guidelines.
This course will educate participants in unique return to sport considerations for the adolescent athlete. Areas addressed in this course will include management of growth plate injuries, the role of imaging in rehabilitation, identifying and managing clinician burnout, ACL return to sport guidelines and testing, motion analysis for throwing and running athletes, and more!
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.