Sports Medicine and Arthroscopy
Sports medicine is concerned with the prevention and treatment of injuries and illnesses sustained during athletic activities.  Among the most common conditions for which patients may seek a sport medicine physician include:

Shoulder instability
Bursitis and tendonitis
Knee instability
Meniscus problems

The sports medicine physicians at Greater Metropolitan Orthopaedics are concerned with careful diagnosis, effective treatment, and speedy recovery.  To assist in assessing injury and to treat musculoskeletal injuries with as little trauma as possible, modern arthroscopy techniques are part of the sports medicine physician's repertoire.

During arthroscopy the physician looks into the joint with a tiny telescope through incisions no larger than a buttonhole.  A telescope smaller than the diameter of a pencil sends back visual images displayed on a television screen through a miniature videocamera.

A variety of joints can be operated on using arthroscopy: knee, shoulder, elbow, wrist, ankle and hip.  Little pain results from this kind of surgery, allowing most operations to be performed on an outpatient basis.  Cartilage and ligament tears in the knee, bursitis, shoulder dislocations and rotator cuff injuries are all treatable using this technique.  Even complex knee ligament reconstructions are routinely done using arthroscopy.