Victory Sports Medicine & Orthopedics is committed to providing our patients with everything they need to help better explain and educate them with regards to their orthopedic condition. Many of these products are distributed through national organizations, such as The American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery.

We like patients to understand what to expect postoperatively, and this can be done through educational pamphlets or through a visit with physical therapy, where the expectations and physical therapy regimen will be explained to the patient preoperatively.

The American Podiatric Medical Association The American Orthopaedic Foot and Ankle Society The American Society for Surgery of the Hand

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What is Sports Medicine?

Sports Medicine is a specialty practice, providing care for athletic and recreational injuries sustained by people of all ages. Today’s athlete can be a little league baseball player, a working mother interested in staying fit, or a senior citizen who golfs on the weekend. These people, in addition to high school, collegiate, and professional athletes, will benefit from the care of a sports medicine professional.

Through advances in surgical techniques, orthopedic sports medicine specialists have been able to treat and rehabilitate athletes whose types of injuries were once career-ending. In addition to improved surgical techniques, sports medicine has also made tremendous strides in identifying, treating and preventing sports-related injuries through nonoperative care.

How can a Certified Athletic Trainer help?

The Certified Athletic Trainer is a highly educated and skilled professional specializing in athletic health care. In cooperation with physicians and other allied health professionals, the athletic trainer functions as an integral member of the athletic health care team in secondary schools, colleges, and universities, sports medicine clinics and other health care settings.

A Certified Athletic Trainer is a specialist in the prevention, recognition, immediate emergency care and rehabilitation of injuries incurred by athletes. Under the supervision of a physician, athletic trainers use the knowledge of each athlete’s specific injury and the factors influencing that injury to develop a treatment program based on medical, exercise and sport sciences.

Certified Athletic Trainers have fulfilled the requirements for certification established by the National Athletic Trainers’ Association Board of Certification, Inc., and are regulated by a State Law Practice Act. There are six practice domains in the profession of athletic training: