No matter what level you are at when it comes to participating in sports – whether you are an elite athlete, college athlete, or a weekend warrior – injuries can occur.

However, there are things you can do to minimize your risk of injury! In fact, there are warm-ups, exercises, and stretches you can perform to help avoid an injury from occurring. We recommend our active community members to be diligent about injury prevention, as we want you to remain safe while at play.

Our Sports Medicine Specialists have created some resources you may use to help avoid injuries and stay on the field, track, court, or just stay active in general!

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INJURY PREVENTION HANDOUTS

Softball & Baseball Players:

The arm injury prevention handout covers pre-and-post-game warm-ups, stretching routines, recovery practices, strengthening exercises, and key tips for injury prevention.

Gymnasts:

The injury prevention handout for gymnasts cover warm-up and stretching routines, exercises for strength and stability, and ways to avoid overuse injuries, along with proper nutrition tips.

Basketball Players:

The injury prevention handout for basketball players covers lower body, upper body, and core strength, dynamic stretching, balance and agility, along with injury prevention tips.

INJURY PREVENTION VIDEOS

The Injury Prevention Videos includes explanations and demonstrations of exercises that can be performed to help avoid injuries.

Shoulder Injury Prevention

Elbow Injury Prevention

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OrthoAccess by OSMS provides you with personalized, expert injury advice for FREE. Anytime. Anywhere.

If you or someone you know has a new injury or pain, you can use OrthoAccess to get connected with an orthopedic expert. They will give you advice and next step guidance, where you will learn how you should proceed with your orthopedic concern.