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Patient Information: Sports Medicine Sports Medicine: Specializied Care for Adults & Children Helena Orthopaedic Clinic provides prompt, complete care for area team players and “weekend warriors” suffering from common overuse and trauma-induced sports injuries. While some patients may require surgery, many can be treated conservatively with RICE (rest, ice, compression, elevation), medication, physical therapy, and minimally invasive arthroscopic surgery.  Complete
Care for a Wide Range of Conditions Working together with experts in physical therapy, athletic training, post-surgical rehabilitation, and preventive intervention, Helena Orthopaedic Clinic is your source for complete care of a wide range of conditions, including: • Traumatic injury of the bone and soft tissues • Cartilage, ligament, and tendon injuries and disorders • Common overuse injuries (Little Leaguer’s Elbow, Iliotibial Band Syndrome) • Carpal tunnel syndrome • Spondylolysis and spondylolisthesis (vertebral stress fracture and slippage) • Osgood-Schlatter disease (knee pain in teenagers) Expertise in State-of-the-Art Orthopedic Solutions Advanced orthopedic procedures can offer important advantages in the treatment of many sports- and trauma-induced conditions. Options include arthroscopy, Carticel®, and ultrasound-guided techniques. Arthroscopy is a minimally invasive procedure that enables the physician to perform major surgery without a large incision. During arthroscopy—a word that literally means "to look within the joint"— Helena Orthopaedic Clinic makes a small incision and inserts the pencil-sized arthroscope into the problem joint. Fiber optics within the scope transmit images to a TV monitor. Because arthroscopy enables the doctor to clearly see the internal joint structures, it is very useful for diagnosing joint problems. When arthroscopy is used in treatment, specialized surgical instruments are inserted through other small incisions to remove and/or repair damaged tissues. Known for his expertise in arthroscopic joint reconstruction, Helena Orthopaedic Clinic Iregularly offers community seminars to educate the public about arthroscopy and its many benefits. Carticel® (autologous cultured chondrocytes) uses cell culture technology to enable a small sample of the patient’s own knee cartilage to be grown in a laboratory into millions of new cells. These cells (Carticel®) can be implanted in the damaged area of the joint to provide cartilage restoration and regeneration. Ultrasound technology may be used in the treatment of chronic overuse sports injuries (tennis and golfer’s elbow and jumper’s knee), as well as acute injuries (hamstring pulls). Using real-time imaging, the ultrasound-guided approach enables Helena Orthopaedic Clinic to locate the affected tissue and simultaneously treat the problem with minimally invasive techniques and injections.
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