Sports Medicine & Sports Injury Care
At Hackensack Meridian Health, our Sports Medicine program offers a full spectrum of services designed to meet the diverse needs of athletes and active individuals. With convenient locations across New Jersey, we ensure that expert sports medicine care is always within reach, whether you’re recovering from an injury or looking to optimize your performance.
Our team of experts specializes in treating a wide range of sports-related conditions, including Achilles tendon injuries, cartilage injuries, fractures, ligament injuries, osteoarthritis, rotator cuff tears, and more. We emphasize a multidisciplinary approach, collaborating with specialists in orthopedic surgery, physical therapy, and rehabilitation to develop personalized treatment plans. Our services encompass non-surgical options, minimally invasive procedures, and surgical interventions, all aimed at facilitating a safe return to activity and enhancing athletic performance.
Our affiliation with the Hackensack Meridian Center for Discovery & Innovation ensures that patients benefit from cutting-edge research and advanced orthopedic care. Whether you're a professional athlete or someone who enjoys staying active in your free time, our comprehensive sports medicine services are designed to support your health and athletic goals.
Specialized Concussion Centers
Our state-of-the-art Concussion Centers specialize in comprehensive concussion care, offering individualized evaluation, treatment plans, and rehabilitation services during the acute phase (1-5 days) following a concussion or traumatic brain injury (TBI). Using an evidence-based medical model, we focus on maximizing recovery outcomes, improving neurological health, and reducing long-term disability associated with head injuries.
Sports Physicals
We offer a variety of convenient locations across New Jersey providing easy access to sports physicals and pre-participation physical examinations (PPE). Our network of experienced sports medicine physicians ensures thorough evaluations to support athlete health, injury prevention, and peak performance.
Sports Injury Conditions We Treat
- Achilles tendon injuries
- Cartilage injuries (meniscus tears and articular cartilage defects)
- Fractures
- Golfer's elbow
- Knee ligament injuries
- Ligament injuries (ACL, PCL, MCL & LCL injuries)
- Osteoarthritis of the shoulder, foot, ankle and knee
- Peroneal tendon injuries
- Rotator cuff tears
- Shoulder injuries
- Shoulder tendonitis and bursitis
- Tennis elbow
- Throwing injuries of the shoulder and elbow
- Bone marrow aspirate injections / stem cell treatments use your body’s natural ability to heal itself by using regenerative cells from your bone marrow to accelerate healing in osteoarthritis or tendon injuries.
- Fracture Management: Directed by a board-certified orthopedic traumatologist, our Fracture Management program provides care and treatment of complex fractures and is a residency training site for orthopedic trauma.
- Hydrotherapy exercises are an effective way to treat shoulder and elbow injuries.
- Integrative medicine options, such as massages and acupressure.
- Joint injections, when used in combination with rehabilitation therapy, can significantly reduce the need for surgery.
- Pain Management: We offer a wide variety of treatment options, from conservative drug therapies and epidural anesthesia to minimally invasive nerve stimulation techniques.
- Physical therapy & rehabilitation with advanced certified therapists.
- Platelet-rich plasma injections of your own blood help rebuild damaged tissue and treat joint pain after an acute injury, such as ligament and muscle injuries, tennis elbow and golfer's elbow.
- ACL Reconstruction
- Biceps repair and tenodesis surgery repairs the biceps tendon.
- Cartilage Resurfacing
- Labrum Repair
- Meniscus Surgery
- Patellar Realignment
- Rotator Cuff Repair
- Shoulder resurfacing caps the upper arm bone with a smooth metal covering and replaces the shoulder blade socket with a strong plastic socket or tissue graft.
- Tommy John procedure repairs elbow ligaments with tendons from elsewhere in the body.
