Top-Quality Care
The Rainbow Babies and Children’s Hospital is the best pediatric hospital in the Midwest and one of the top four children’s hospitals in the country. Our physicians provide outstanding treatment, offering a complete approach with state-of-the-art techniques and technologies to get young athletes back in the game. When you bring your child to the Rainbow Sports Medicine Center, you know you are providing them with some of the very best healthcare in the world.
Accurate Diagnosis with Advanced Imaging Techniques
Using the most advanced diagnostic testing and imaging, we accurately identify the nature of your child’s injury. We use this information to guide our decisions about the most effective treatment possible.
The Sports Medicine Center uses leading-edge imaging techniques, including the newest CT, MRI, and bone density machines. The sophisticated images are interpreted by highly skilled radiologists, familiar with children’s anatomy.
The Most Effective Treatments
Many sports injuries require physical therapy to restore strength to the injured part of the body, usually through focused strengthening exercises and stretches. We are proud to offer a comprehensive range of rehab services across the city. Our facilities have some of the most technologically advanced rehabilitation and exercise equipment, and personnel who are skilled in creating sports-specific programs for young patients.
When surgery is necessary, you can be assured that our surgeons are specialists in taking care of children’s injuries. Our team of Sports Medicine doctors coordinates the care with surgeons as necessary.
- Special Programs, Consulting and Educational Services
To improve performance and optimize patients’ recovery, the Sports Medicine offers the following programs:
• Performance enhancement
• ACL injury prevention
• Injury prevention and safe return to play
• Sports readiness
• Strength training
• Conditioning for sports
• Nutritional analysis and counseling
In addition to working closely with you and your child, we often involve his/her coach, athletic trainer and/or primary care physician to speed recovery from the existing injury and to help prevent similar and other injuries in the future.