The sports medicine program at The Nebraska Medical Center is a new program with a goal
of providing expedient, multidisciplinary sports medicine care for any and all individuals
looking to remain active throughout their lives.
Young children, people your age, my age, anyone that suffers from conditions ranging from
orthopedic injuries to general medical condtions that are inhibiting, limiting, anything that
might prohibit them from doing things they want to do or engage in an active lifestyle.
I think the over riding goal of the program is to become the model program for the expedient
delivery of comprehensive sports medicine.
We certainly have the resources and expertise.
We are going to focus on providing access to the public.
Access to those who have soemthing they want to have looked at.
We want to make sure they have that access happens as quickly and efficiently as possilbe.
All too often, the term athlete is used to describe people who are engaged in formal
sports on the field, court, ice.
Certainly those are individuals we'll be focusing on and will do anything we can to help enhance
what they're doing.
And help them maintain their skills and abilities to participate in those activities.
But the abilities of the people in the non-traditional setting; the aging athlete the young athlete
who's not participating in school athletics.
That's a group we can focus on as well.
Athletes come in all ages shapes, and sizes.
Everyone is out there wanting to do something.
If they have an injury or condition that prevents them from doing that, our goal is to be a
resource for them.
The key injuries everyone is hearing about are those focused around youth sports, especially
concussions.
That seems to be on everyone's mind these days, from the NFL to youth sports.
That's going to be an area of focus for us.
We want to be a resource for people who've had concussions.
We have professionals here who are trained to deal with concussed athletes and specifically
deal with the affects that can be long lasting.
The Nebraska Medical Center is well positioned to treat just about anything.
The specialities here really do provide that comprehensive background.
Orthopedics, family practice, neurology, endocrinology, cardiology, pulmonology.
All those areas of specialty are areas we'll provide access.
The physicians who specialize in sports medicine know that keeping people active and telling
people what they can do is more important than telling them what they can't do.
That's what sets the specialists at The Nebraska Medical Center apart from maybe a traditional
family practice physician who might say "take two weeks off and you should be better."
There are a number of things that go in to keeping someone physically active.
That's what the med center can provide, that all inclusive care that the physically active
and athletes need.
Those quick fixes we seem to find nowadays may not be such an all encompasing fix as
a modification of an activity.
So someone who maybe can't go out and run a marathon can maybe participate in biking
and swimming.
Instead of taking no for an answer and doing nothing, people are finding ways to modify
their activity levels.
That is what sets sports medicine apart.
We try to help people find ways to accomplish what they want to accomplish.
Do the things they want to do; remain active to the level they want to to remain active
so they can define what that athlete in them is.