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The Division of Sports Medicine at Children's Hospital Boston provides comprehensive assessment, treatment and follow-up care to children, adolescents and young adults with sports-related orthopedic injuries.

A highly-skilled team of orthopedic surgeons and sports medicine physicians work with physical therapy staff to develop long-term treatment and activity plans. In addition, the Division has developed innovative pre-participation evaluation programs and injury prevention strategies.

Sports Concussion Clinic


	The Sports Concussion Clinic at Children's Hospital Boston is under the direction of William Meehan, MD. If you think you or your child has recently sustained a sport-related concussion, please contact the office ASAP at 781-216-1328.

The Fitting Truth

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This helpful brochure will provide you with tips for wearing your shoes correctly to prevent injuries!
With the help of Dr. Thomas Vorderer two recent Northeastern University graduates created this 3-fold pamphlet for their Senior Capstone Project. They came up with the idea due to the lack of programs in place to make sure consumers are educated about buying a properly fitted pair of shoes. The majority of the general population buys sneakers that are too big resulting in many injuries and problems. This simple concise brochure offers preventive education to reduce injury.


	Featured Staff


		Mininder S. Kocher, MD, MPH Watch eClinic interviews discussing the changing climate of youth sports and injuries, parents being involved in their kids sports and the injuries he sees the most in his clinic. Featured in the RRY Publication Orthopaedics This Week, he talks about why he became interested in orthopaedic surgery and how those interests have formed the way he practices medicine today. Click here to read the article. An article in the Boston Globe, Teens training too hard, too often, discusses athletes injuries, overuse in sports and doctors concerns.


	What's New


	Platelet Rich Plasma We are now considering the latest in tendon regeneration with the application of Platelet Rich Plasma. This process has been popular in Europe and has been getting a lot of attention in the United States to enhance tissue regeneration in difficult to heel areas such as tendons. There are many healing growth factors normally in our platelets. The process involves drawing off the patients own blood and isolating the platelets that contain these growth factors. This is then injected into the affected areas with ultrasound guidance. Examples would incude degeneration of the achilles, tennis elbow and patella tendonosis that do not respond to traditional management of physical therapy and activity modification. This special procedure is performed by Pierre d'Hemecourt, MD under ultrasound guidance.

Expert Staff

The program's director, Lyle J. Micheli, MD is one of the world's leading authorities on sports care. He has treated world-renowned dancers and professional athletes, and is the author of hundreds of published clinical studies and scholarly review articles and books.


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Children's Hospital Boston has been ranked #1 in Orthopedics in the U.S. News Media Group's 2010 edition of America's Best Children's Hospitals featured in the August issue of U.S. News & World Report.