Our Sports Medicine Doctors Get You Back. Fast.
Sports Medicine
You don’t have to be a professional football player to benefit from the care of a sports medicine doctor. Penn Highlands’ expert sports medicine doctors treat any type of activity-related injury or musculoskeletal condition whether from competitive sports, a casual game of golf, or an active job—often without surgery.
Penn Highlands Specialists
Penn Highlands sports medicine specialists provide you the care and treatment you need to get back in the game of life as quickly and safely as possible. They provide you with a fast and accurate diagnosis of your injury or condition. They provide advanced therapies, including injections, physical therapy, and minimally invasive surgery. But you don’t need to wait for an injury to put you out of the game. Our sports medicine doctors evaluate your strength, flexibility, and balance to assess whether an underlying condition is increasing your risk for injury or reinjury, and work with you to create a plan to help prevent future sports injuries.
Foot and Ankle Surgery
Orthopedics / Orthopedic Surgery
Sports Medicine
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - Fracture ClinicA Service of Penn Highlands DuBois
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Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - ClarionA Service of Penn Highlands DuBois
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Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - Charleroi
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Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - State CollegeA Service of Penn Highlands Huntingdon
Orthopedics / Orthopedic Surgery
Sports Medicine
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - HuntingdonA Service of Penn Highlands Huntingdon
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - Tyrone
Orthopedics / Orthopedic Surgery
Sports Medicine
University Orthopedics Center And Spine Institute - State College
Orthopedics / Orthopedic Surgery
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Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - California
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - Charleroi
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - Rostraver Township
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - Uniontown
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Sports Medicine
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Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - St. MarysA Service of Penn Highlands DuBois
Orthopedics / Orthopedic Surgery
Sports Medicine
Family Medicine Residency ClinicA Service of Penn Highlands DuBois
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Sports Medicine
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Orthopedics / Orthopedic Surgery
Sports Medicine
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - ClearfieldA Service of Penn Highlands DuBois
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - PhilipsburgA Service of Penn Highlands DuBois
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - St. MarysA Service of Penn Highlands DuBois
Orthopedics / Orthopedic Surgery
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - ClearfieldA Service of Penn Highlands DuBois
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Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - St. MarysA Service of Penn Highlands DuBois
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Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - ClearfieldA Service of Penn Highlands DuBois
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Orthopedics / Orthopedic Surgery
Sports Medicine
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - Rostraver Township
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - Uniontown
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Orthopedics / Orthopedic Surgery
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - DuBois COEA Service of Penn Highlands DuBois
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - State CollegeA Service of Penn Highlands Huntingdon
Orthopedics / Orthopedic Surgery
Sports Medicine
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - ClearfieldA Service of Penn Highlands DuBois
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - DuBoisA Service of Penn Highlands DuBois
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Orthopedics / Orthopedic Surgery
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - Rostraver Township
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - Uniontown
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Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - ConnellsvilleA Service of Penn Highlands Connellsville
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - Uniontown
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Sports Medicine
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - HuntingdonA Service of Penn Highlands Huntingdon
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - Tyrone
Sports Medicine
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - ClarionA Service of Penn Highlands DuBois
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - PunxsutawneyA Service of Penn Highlands DuBois
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - St. MarysA Service of Penn Highlands DuBois
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Family Medicine
Sports Medicine
Huntingdon Family Care Center of Broad Top Area Medical Center
Orthopedics / Orthopedic Surgery
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - Charleroi
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - Rostraver Township
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Orthopedics / Orthopedic Surgery
Sports Medicine
University Orthopedics Center - Huntingdon
Orthopedics / Orthopedic Surgery
Spine Surgery
Sports Medicine
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Sports Medicine
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - ClarionA Service of Penn Highlands DuBois
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Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - St. MarysA Service of Penn Highlands DuBois
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Orthopedics / Orthopedic Surgery
Sports Medicine
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - DuBoisA Service of Penn Highlands DuBois
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Orthopedics / Orthopedic Surgery
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - Fracture ClinicA Service of Penn Highlands DuBois
Orthopedics / Orthopedic Surgery
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - PhilipsburgA Service of Penn Highlands DuBois
Orthopedics / Orthopedic Surgery
Sports Medicine
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - Charleroi
Penn Highlands Orthopedics and Sports Medicine - Rostraver Township
Expert Medical Guidance for Local Sports Teams
Whether you are on a sports team or a weekend warrior, you can trust you are getting state-of-the-art sports medicine care at Penn Highlands. Our sports medicine doctors provide medical guidance and care for teams throughout central Pennsylvania at every level from elementary school to college. And they offer that same expertise to every patient, regardless of where or how your injury or overuse condition occurs.
Innovative and Advanced Sports Medicine Care
You don’t have to leave central Pennsylvania or travel out of state to get some of the nation’s leading sports medicine care. At Penn Highlands, our sports medicine specialists provide the most current medical care for sports injuries and are even helping develop new treatments.
Dr. Matthew A. Varacallo, medical director of Orthopedic Robotic Surgery at Penn Highlands Healthcare, helped pioneer a new procedure to repair torn anterior cruciate ligments (ACLs) and prevent reinjury. Named to the “Top 65 Total Knee Replacement Surgeons to Know” by Beckers’ ACS Review, Dr. Varacallo is one of only two surgeons in the US using the advanced Fertilized ACL technique. The technique helps patients recover faster and prevent reinjury by expediting the healing of bone tunnels, which are a common phenomenon after ACL reconstruction. Read more about this innovative procedure.
You don’t need to travel far in Pennsylvania to find an expert sports medicine doctor. Ask your primary care provider for a referral to a Penn Highlands specialist or find a sports medicine doctor or orthopedic doctor near you.
A Team Approach to Activity Injuries
If you’ve been injured playing a sport or have musculoskeletal pain, you don’t need to spend time trying to figure out the best place to go for care in central Pennsylvania. Whether you seek care in an emergency room, urgent care clinic, or schedule an appointment with one of our sports medicine doctors or orthopedic surgeons, you will get the care most appropriate for your condition through our team approach.
Our expert sports medicine doctors evaluate and treat all types of injuries and conditions, from muscle strains, torn ligaments, overuse conditions, and broken bones. They can provide a wide variety of treatments and work closely with Penn Highlands orthopedic surgeons, pain management experts, and orthopedic rehabilitation to get you the right care at the right time.
What Conditions do our Sports Medicine Doctors Treat?
A sports medicine doctor is a physician who specializes in caring for athletes of all abilities, whether you play a competitive sport, exercise for enjoyment or health reasons, or have an active or strenuous job. Doctors who specialize in sports medicine most often deal with injuries and conditions that affect the bones, muscles, ligaments, and tendons. That can include acute injuries like ankle sprains, muscle and tendon tears, fractures, and knee injuries such as a torn ACL (anterior cruciate ligament). But an orthopedic sports medicine doctor also treats overuse injuries and conditions such as knee pain, tendinitis, rotator cuff syndrome, and golfer’s or tennis elbow.
Another type of injury a sports medicine doctor treats is concussion. A concussion, or traumatic brain injury (TBI), is common in contact sports as well as those where an athlete can get hit in the head with a ball, stick, or racquet. But they also are common in adults as a result of falls, even minor falls such as when someone trips. At Penn Highlands Healthcare, we have a dedicated Concussion Clinic to assess and manage concussion injuries. We also offer ImPACT (Immediate Post-Concussion Assessment and Cognitive) Testing to athletes. This assessment, done before a sports season, provides a baseline measurement that can help track recovery if an athlete does get a concussion.
At Penn Highlands, our sports medicine doctors treat all types of activity-related injuries and conditions. Some of the most common injuries we see are:
- Ankle sprains
- Concussion
- Golfer’s or tennis elbow
- Injury prevention
- Knee pain
- Shoulder pain
- Rotator cuff injuries
- Stress fractures
- Tendinitis
- Torn ligaments
Can Sports Medicine Help Prevent Injuries?
You don’t have to wait for a health condition or an injury to occur before seeing a sports medicine doctor. A sports medicine doctor can evaluate your flexibility, balance, strength, and musculoskeletal structure to determine if you are at increased risk of injury. They can then create a preventive treatment program that may include measures such as physical therapy, taping, or specialized stretching routines to help strengthen weaknesses and prevent injury. These treatments also can help patients achieve higher levels of performance because they are stronger, more flexible, and better balanced.
Often, activity-related conditions can re-occur. Orthopedic rehabilitation is extremely important to not only helping you recover following a sports injury or orthopedic surgery, it also can help you avoid reinjury.In addition to injuries, sports medicine doctors help athletes with chronic diseases such as asthma, diabetes, and some heart conditions, to manage their condition safely while involved in athletic activities. Your Penn Highlands sports medicine doctor will work closely with your primary care physician or pediatrician to optimize your health and performance.
