Advanced care for sports related injuries
Keeping up with daily tasks, exercise, or performing well as an athlete can be difficult when you have bone or muscle pain. At Ascension Via Christi Sports Medicine in Wichita, Kansas, our team approach delivers medication therapies, physical therapy and non-surgical treatment options before recommending surgery. We help you understand your condition, so you know how to prevent reinjury during and after your treatment program.
Our sports medicine doctors and care teams deliver prompt care when a bone or muscle injury keeps you on the sidelines. Rehabilitation services include physical therapy and athletic training for your sports performance needs.
Our doctors and athletic trainers support local sports teams as first responders at practices and competitions. We offer an education and sports performance program to help prevent injuries and improve strength and conditioning.
We treat
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Bone and joint injuries
- ACL and meniscus tears
- Fractures and dislocations (including fracture reductions)
- Ankle sprains
- Hip and knee injuries
- Shoulder and neck injuries
- Hand, wrist, and elbow injuries
- Foot pain
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Sports-related medical conditions
- Concussions
- Heat-related illnesses
- Skin disorders
- Anemia
- Other medical conditions affecting sports performance
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Nutrition & Performance
- Nutrition concerns
- Dietary supplement questions
- Exercise prescription with nutrition counseling
Comprehensive sports medicine
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Injury evaluation and non-surgical care
- Comprehensive non-surgical fracture care
- Osteopathic Manual Manipulation (OMM)
- Diagnostic musculoskeletal ultrasound
- Ultrasound-guided procedures and treatments
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Joint & Soft Tissue Injections
Using ultrasound guidance when appropriate, we offer:
- Corticosteroid injections
- Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) injections
- Hyaluronic acid injections
- Prolotherapy
- Treatment for the knee, shoulder, hip, elbow, ankle, hand/wrist, SI joint, plantar fascia, and more
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Advanced Procedures
- Shoulder hydrodilation for frozen shoulder (adhesive capsulitis)
- Percutaneous needle tenotomy with autologous blood
- Trigger point injections
Platelet-Rich Plasma (PRP) treatments
PRP may be recommended for chronic or difficult-to-heal tendon injuries, including:
- Tennis elbow
- Golfer's elbow
- Rotator cuff tendinopathy and partial tears
- Achilles tendinopathy
- Gluteal tendinopathy (greater trochanteric pain syndrome)
- Patellar and quadriceps tendinopathy
- Hamstring tendinopathy
Nerve treatments
We provide ultrasound-guided injections and hydrodissection for common nerve entrapment conditions, including:
- Carpal tunnel syndrome
- Radial tunnel syndrome
- Ulnar and median nerve conditions
- Suprascapular nerve entrapment
- Axillary nerve (quadrilateral space syndrome)
- Common peroneal nerve
- Saphenous nerve
- Sural nerve
- Femoral, obturator, and sciatic nerves
- Meralgia paresthetica
- Baxter's nerve entrapment
- Lumbar sympathetic ganglion blocks
- Cervical sympathetic ganglion blocks
Specialized sports performance treatments
- Compartment pressure testing for chronic exertional compartment syndrome
- Botox® injections for chronic exertional compartment syndrome
- Botox® injections for thoracic outlet syndrome