If you’re a competitive athlete or just trying to keep your body moving, our team at Cayuga Medical Center Sports Medicine is here to treat, rehabilitate, and prevent sports-related injuries. Our Sports Medicine team is expertly trained in musculoskeletal and medical sports conditions and they understand what drives athletes. We will help you recover from injury as quickly and safely as possible and get back in the game!
Our services include (but are not limited to) assessment and treatment of:
- Acute injuries (strains, sprains, joint pain)
- Overuse injuries (tendonitis, stress fractures)
- Back pain in young athletes
- Shortness of breath and fatigue with exercise
- Athletic skin disorders
- Athletes with illness (mononucleosis, asthma, and diabetes)
- Sports Concussion (treatment and management)
- Osteoarthritis in our multidisciplinary clinic
Conservative musculoskeletal care
- Ultrasound Guided injections
- Viscosupplementation for osteoarthritis
- Diagnostic Musculoskeletal Ultrasound
- Continuous Laryngoscopy with Exercise
Getting back her winning edge
As a competitive swimmer who is in the pool for 15 hours each week, Elise Nishii-Kim is used to pushing her body. But, during an intense practice in the summer of 2016, with her heart pounding 180 beats a minute, she suddenly had trouble breathing.
Staying in the Game
Caelia Thomas, captain of the girls’ varsity soccer team at Ithaca High School, got back her kick with help from sports medicine specialists and physical therapists at the Cayuga Wellness Center.
Born to Run!
Lithesome and blue-eyed with a ponytail that swings wildly as she runs, Lizzy Jewiss is a driven young athlete. In seventh grade she decided to take up running to stay in shape for soccer.
A health care network for safer sports
A partnership between Cayuga Medical Center’s Sports Medicine and Athletic Performance program and high school, community, and collegiate sports teams provides their athletes with an extra margin of safety. Certified athletic trainers specializing in athletic health care work closely with physicians and therapists to prevent injuries at practices and games at seven high schools, club […]
Symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of hip impingement
Dr. Seemant from Sports Medicine & Athletic Performance at the Cayuga Wellness Center explains the symptoms, diagnosis, and treatment of hip impingement.
A Healthy Collaboration
The Cayuga Wellness Center was the product of a collaboration between Cayuga Medical Center and a pair of local developers, Tim and Terry Ciaschi. Hospital administrators were already exploring ways to improve the overall health and well-being of community residents when the Ciaschis approached Cayuga Medical Center with their concept of creating a medically based […]
Community Lecture Series
Check back for upcoming 2022 dates!
Professional Lecture Series
2nd Tuesday of each month, 7:00am-8:00am via zoom
Please RSVP to Emoran@cayugamed.org for zoom link and handout material.
Oct 14 A 2021 Update on ACL surgery
Ben Donohue, MD
Orthopedic Surgery, Cayuga Medical Associates
Nov 11 Soccer Injuries
Noah Fessler, DPT
Physical Therapy, Cayuga Medical Center
Dec 16 Radiologic evaluation on the elbow with an focus on ultrasound
Walter Silbert, MD
Radiology Associates of Ithaca
Jan 13 Rheumatology mimickers of sports medicine
Anthony Sidari, MD
Rheumatology, Cayuga Medical Associates
Feb 10 A 2021 Update on Patellofemoral Pain Syndrome
Ashley Anderson, MD
Orthopedic Surgery, Cayuga Medical Associates
Mar 10 Cycling Medicine
Monika Radloff, MD
Sports Medicine Physician, Cayuga Medical Center
Apr 7 It seemed like a straightforward sports medicine presentation: Worrisome diagnoses with simple presentations
Fnu Seemant, MD
Sports Medicine Physician, Cayuga Medical Center
May 12 Fascia
Brian Lee, DPT
Physical Therapy, Cayuga Medical Center
June 9 Long Hauler Syndrome
Geoff Moore, MD