Sports Performance
What is Sports Performance?
The field of Sports Performance is uniquely positioned to serve patients who have completed treatment and physical therapy but haven’t yet regained the strength, mobility, or confidence to perform their best. Orthopedic care and physical therapy will enable you to complete basic movements again; Sports Performance goes beyond by elevating your general athleticism to help you reach your full potential.
Unlike personal trainers or coaches, the certified athletic trainers who lead Sports Performance at MOR are licensed healthcare professionals with one foot in the medical field and one in the performance realm. Our training regimens are backed by scientific research, developed in collaboration with leading medical experts, and enhanced by the latest technologies. We’ll develop a personalized plan to help you get back to feeling 100% and achieve your athletic and fitness goals.
From Post-PT to Peak Performance
After physical therapy, the Sports Performance specialists at Midwest Orthopaedics at Rush (MOR) work with you to understand your ambitions as an athlete. We evaluate your strength, balance, and flexibility, then design a regimen of functional exercises. Your program may be specific to a challenge you’d like to overcome or a more general, full-body plan to help you perform at your peak.
The Sports Performance Center also utilizes innovative technologies like 3D motion capture, wearable sensors, force plates, and state of the art strength testing devices that provide deeper insight and guide recommendations for all athletes.
By consistently introducing novel stimuli in the form of new exercises, your program will help you turn weaknesses into strengths and see faster results that translate to better performance. Beyond this season, you’ll learn to incorporate these exercises into your daily life, so you can maintain high-quality activity and reduce injury risk for the long term.
What We Do
- ACL reconstruction
- Ankle sprains and fractures
- Cartilage defects
- Cartilage injury
- Dislocated hip
- Femoroacetabular impingement
- Fracture
- Golfer's elbow
- Guided throwing programs
- Hip impingement
- Hip labrum tear
- Hip pain
- IT Band syndrome
- Joint pain
- Jumper's knee
- Knee Ligament sprains (MCL, LCL & PCL)
- Labral Tears (SLAP Tear)
- Labrum repair
- Little Leaguer's Elbow
- Meniscectomy
- Meniscus repairs
- Meniscus tears
- MPFL reconstruction
- Muscle strains
- Neck and back pain
- Osteoarthritis
- Patellofemoral syndrome
- Pes Cavus (High Arch)
- Pes Planus (Flat Feet)
- Runner's knee
- Running mechanics
- Scapular dyskinesis
- SLAP repair
- Snapping hip syndrome
- Stress fractures
- Subluxing patella/kneecap
- Physical therapy
- Synovitis
- Tendonitis and tendonosis
- Tennis elbow (Epicondylitis)
- Trochanteric bursitis
- UCL reconstruction
- Blood Flow Restriction (BFR)
- Cross-training fitness
- Core, Hip & Leg motion assessment with wearable sensors
- Functional Range Conditioning (FRC)
- Fundamental Capacity Screen (FCS)
- Functional Movement Screening (FMS)
- Flywheel Pulley training (Excentric)
- Flywheel Box training (Excentric)
- Fitlight system for agility and reaction time
- High-Intensity Interval Training (HIIT)
- Running assessment with wearable sensors
- Running assessment with slow motion video
- Throwing assessment with 3D motion capture technology
- Synaptec stroboscopic glasses
- Y-Balance
Need a Sports Performance Assessment?
The Sports Performance Center offers a variety of activity-specific assessments. These detailed evaluations are a great first step and assist our team in developing your personalized treatment plan. If your physician has ordered a “Functional Sports Assessment” or “Sports Assessment,” read the descriptions below to determine which assessment is right for you.
Throwing Prep Screen
If you are an athlete whose surgery was related to a throwing motion (Tommy John, labral repair, little leaguer’s shoulder or elbow, etc.) and you’re ready to resume high-intensity throwing.
Throwing Assessment
If you are an athlete whose surgery was related to a throwing motion (Tommy John, labral repair, little leaguer’s shoulder or elbow, etc.) and you’re ready to resume high-intensity throwing.
Running Assessment
If you are returning to running only (recreational running, 5k to marathon training, or cross country).
Plyometric Prep Screen
If you are returning to sport after hip, knee, or ankle surgery and you’re beginning to resume jumping in therapy.
Lower Body Assessment
If you are returning to sport after hip, knee, or ankle surgery and already comfortable running, jumping, and cutting at high effort.
Injury Risk Assessment
If you are interested in strength, mobility, stability, and blood flow restriction training or would like to try an alternative to traditional personal training.
Ready to Schedule a Sports Performance Session?
Request an appointment today and get back to your best.