Einstein shoulder and elbow specialists offer both surgical and non-surgical care. Many sports injuries require a combination
of treatment methods, such as rest, medication and exercise. Working with you and your primary care doctor, our sports medicine
specialists will make sure your treatment plan suits your needs. Click a link below to learn more.
- Surgical Treatments
- Non-surgical Treatments
Surgical Treatments
When you have a sports injury that requires surgical intervention, you want experienced surgeons who excel at what they do.
Einstein Sports Medicine’s expert orthopaedic surgeons offer the latest, most effective techniques and most advanced surgical
procedures. These include:
Arthroscopy is a minimally invasive operation. Using pencil-sized instruments inserted through small incisions, your surgeon can see
inside your joint to diagnose and fix problems. Arthroscopy can help doctors diagnose and treat many problems including torn
cartilage, torn ligaments and joint instability. It can also help doctors decide if joint replacement is a good option for
you.
Joint replacement surgery removes damaged cartilage and bone and replaces them with new metal and plastic parts. You may have the whole joint replaced
or only a part. Your surgeon may use special cement to keep your new joint in place. This operation can relieve pain and provide
more strength and movement to the joint.
Non-surgical Treatments
Most sports injuries can be treated without surgery. Click a link below to learn more about non-surgical treatment options
used by Einstein Sports Medicine:
Medication such as aspirin or ibuprofen can help reduce pain and inflammation. If these don’t relieve your pain, your doctor may try
other more powerful medicines. For instance, corticosteroids are very powerful anti-inflammatory drugs usually given by injection.
Physical therapy consists of special exercises to help stretch and strengthen the muscles and to restore movement. It also helps improve flexibility.
Einstein’s partnership with MossRehab gives our patients access to some of the world’s best diagnostic and rehabilitation
resources.
Reduction is a procedure in which doctors put dislocated joints back into their sockets. It is usually followed by immobilization (placing
the injured body part in a splint, sling or cast until it has healed).
R.I.C.E. stands for rest, ice, compression and elevation. This is the best, immediate treatment for almost all sudden athletic injuries.
Resting helps reduce swelling and bleeding. Ice helps reduce pain and inflammation by causing blood vessels to contract. Compression
(wrapping an injury with a bandage) and elevation (keeping an injured limb above heart level) both help reduce swelling.
Splinting means immobilizing a joint or injured part of the body. Splints are used to support a joint or fractured bone, relieve pain
and prevent muscles from contracting too much. Some splints help stretch muscles while patients rest. These devices are used
to treat broken bones, dislocations, arthritis, tendon and ligament problems and other disorders.
Ultrasound uses sound waves to apply deep heat to your body. The sound waves penetrate deep into tissues, raising the temperature. This
rise increases blood flow, relaxes muscle spasms and speeds healing. Ultrasound is used to treat tendon and ligament and muscle
injuries, contracture and joint problems such as arthritis.
