Glossary of What We Treat
The experts at Rainbow’s Sports Medicine Center are equipped to treat any type of sports-related injuries in children of all ages.

Anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injuries may occur from coming to a quick stop with a directional change while running, pivoting, landing, or overextending the joint in either directionAnterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury:
The ACL, one of the four major ligaments of the knee, may be stretched or torn. A tear may be partial or complete.  Learn more

Sprain:
An injury to a ligament, often caused by twisting or wrenching.
(A ligament is a type of tissue that joins bone to bone.) Learn more

Strain:
An injury to a muscle or tendon, often caused by overuse, force, or stretching. (A tendon joins muscle to bone.)

Contusion (bruise):
An injury to the soft issue, often produced by blunt force such as a kick, a fall, or a blow. Learn more

Osgood-Schlatter disease:
A condition of knee pain and swelling in young children and adolescents. Learn more

Tendonitis:
An inflammation of a tendon or the tendon’s covering. Learn more

Overuse injury:
The result of repetitive micro trauma to the tendons, bones and joints. Common examples include tennis elbow, swimmer’s shoulder, Little League elbow, runner’s knee, jumper’s knee, Achilles tendonitis and shin splints.

Shin splints are pains in the front of the lower legs caused by exercise, usually after a period of relative inactivity.Shin splint:
An overload on the shin bone (tibia) , the large bone in the front of the lower leg, and the connective tissues, causing pain. Lean more

Stress fracture:
Minute cracks that occur in the bone

Muscle strain:
More commonly called a ”pulled” or “torn” muscle, this is an injury in which the muscle tears or rips, usually when stretched too fast

Exercise-induced asthma:
Shortness of breath and wheezing triggered by exercise or physical activity. Symptoms usually occur during or shortly after exercise. Not the same as chronic asthma.

Menstrual irregularities:
Athletic activity sometimes affect young women’s menstrual monthly periods.