Recreational sports are a great way to make friends, get exercise, and raise your stamina. This doesn’t mean that injuries don’t happen, and the best thing that you can do for yourself is to protect your body.
Oct 1st, 2021
Recreational sports are a great way to make friends, get exercise, and raise your stamina. This doesn’t mean that injuries don’t happen, and the best thing that you can do for yourself is to protect your body.
It might be tempting to run right back to your daily life as soon as your doctor gives you the green light, but there are several things that will need to happen before you can fully recover from injury or surgery.
Sports injuries can affect you for the rest of your life. We’ve invested in the latest technology to heal your body and protect your overall health. Read on to learn how we can quickly minimize your pain and help you heal from certain injuries.
Falls affect about one third of the US population over 65. There can be serious consequences, up to and including a senior person being unable to live alone in their own home. Read on to understand more about protecting your health and independence.
Athletes often sustain injuries while playing their sports. This is nothing new, but in baseball, losing your ability to throw can ruin your game; however, there is a solution to get you out of the dugout and back on the field.
If you’ve been diagnosed with a torn anterior cruciate ligament (ACL), chances are you’re wondering if you’re facing surgery or whether other treatment options exist. Take a moment to learn what you need to know!
If you’re a golfer, the last thing you want is to be sidelined from the links due to injury. Learn about some common golf injuries, how you can prevent them, and what to do if you wind up injured so you can get back to the fairway faster.
If you have a sports injury, you know it can make moving through everyday life unbearable. The good news is that non-surgical treatments can alleviate symptoms and promote healing without surgical intervention. Keep reading to learn more!
Getting to the doctor’s office can be difficult when you’re sick, injured, or need to see your doctor when you’re out of town. But telehealth visits are changing that. You can have an appointment with our team without having to leave your location.
Do you have an injury, and you want to get back in the game of life fast? Our team provides nonsurgical solutions to give you the results you want.
If you’ve had a sports injury, PRP therapy might be your answer. This convenient, safe procedure offers many benefits that can get you back in the game again.
An ACL injury can take you out of the game due its long recovery time. If you’re a female athlete, you’re far more prone to suffering from an ACL tear than men. Learn what you can do to protect your ACL.
If you have golfer’s elbow, you need care and treatment to help it heal. We share the symptoms to look for and how to treat it. Better yet — you might even be able to prevent it from ever happening to you.
Do you suffer from knee pain? Learn about the nonsurgical options our experts offer to alleviate your knee discomfort.
A rotator cuff injury can affect your daily routine, as well as your job performance. But how do you know whether to treat it with conservative options or surgery? Keep reading to learn more.
If you’ve suffered from an anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) injury, it can sideline you for a long time. Understanding the treatment and recovery process can help you get back in the game faster.
When you’re injured, you want to heal quickly so you can get back to your daily routine. Platelet-rich plasma therapy offers a compelling solution to help you recover fast, using your body’s own healing power.
Among older adults, falls are the leading cause of injury deaths, unintentional injuries, and hospital admissions for trauma. Every 14 seconds, an older adult is seen in an emergency department for a fall-related injury.
Press Release. Prior to the start of this academic year, Victory Sports Medicine generously donated three pieces of workout equipment to the Weedsport Central School District.
As a proud sponsor of the annual Skinnyman Triathlon, Victory Sports Medicine & Orthopedics has been spending the past several weeks providing participants with information on how to prevent injuries, utilize weight training ...
Skaneateles, NY (June 19, 2013) – The Corporate Challenge isn’t the only community event where you will see members of the Victory Sports Medicine team. Employees frequently engage in activities that they also encourage their patients to take ...
Skaneateles, NY (June 14, 2013) – This week, June 10-15, is Men’s Health Week. Overall fitness is extremely important to improving and maintaining good health. Victory Sports Medicine & Orthopedics is running a special offer this month for me ...
Dr. Marc Pietropaoli and and Jason Cherry, Director of Physical Therapy interviewed by Chris Brandolino on ABC’s Bridge Street about Victory Sports Medicine’s Gait & Balance program. During the interview, Jason performed one of the Gait ...
Skaneateles, NY (May 9, 2013) – The Skaneateles Girls Softball team has had a strong start to their season. The new season started off with positive attitudes, a team ready to work, and even a new look.
CNY Business Journal – Victory Sports Medicine & Orthopedics Grows by Treating Athletes & the Active
NY Business Journal – Victory Sports Medicine & Orthopedics Grows by Treating Athletes & the Active
Skaneateles, NY March 25, 2013 – Jason Cherry, DPT has joined Victory Sports Medicine & Orthopedics as the Director of Physical Therapy. In this position, Jason joins a growing team of dedicated professionals at Victory Sports Medicine in ...
Innovative Healthcare Magazine – New Hope to Combat the Risk of Falling
On March 2, Dr. Marc Pietropaoli joined a handful of other physicians from around the U.S. to give complete physicals to all 75 players of the team as part of their pre-season preparations for game-time. Dr. Pietropaoli worked with a team of ...
With snow and ice now on the ground, a steady gait and good balance is more critical than ever. This is the time of year when the emergency room fills up with those who have fallen and sometimes have even broken a bone or two.
NY Physician Magazine – Victory Sports Medicine & Orthopedics Uses the Latest Techniques & Technologies to Heal Patients.
SKANEATELES – Although Halloween is around the corner, a group of teenagers didn’t see any blood or guts when they spent an afternoon around fake knees, surgeons and medical equipment.
Bleeding is often a sign of injury. But in some cases, a person’s own blood can be used to recover from those injuries. Take tennis elbow as an example. Actually called lateral epicondylitis, the condition is an inflammation of ...
A local doctor is offering a relatively new treatment for people with Tennis Elbow. The condition happens when the elbow is overused, and as our Allison Lazarz explains this new treatment may be an alternative to an expensive surgery.
An estimated 9 million Americans suffer from tennis elbow pain each year. Repeated actions associated with racquet sports, manual work with twisting hand movements, weight training, or other traumatic movement of the elbow or wrist ...
MD News – Patients Say Victory Sports Medicine & Orthopedics is Their MVP
In last month’s column, I defined and explained what a concussion is. Today, I will continue with the different concussion grades. Dr. Robert Cantu, a noted neurosurgeon and world-renowned expert on concussion ...
Despite a vast increase in volume in published research over the past five years, sports-related concussion has remained one of the most controversial and debated issues within the field of sports medicine.
Two recent events have reinforced the importance of teamwork for me in sports medicine. The first occurred while I was performing an arthroscopic shoulder rotator cuff repair on a 62-year-old woman and was the largest rotator cuff tear ...
Patients will often ask me: “Doc why do I need an X-ray, why don’t we just get an MRI?” I have also recently had a patient specifically ask me: “Doc, why do you get X-rays anymore when you can get MRIs?”
In this article we will briefly discuss the various surgical options for arthritis. One of the most common questions I get regarding possible surgical treatment for arthritis is “Doc, can’t you just scope the knee and clean it out?”
Cortisone injections are probably one of the most misunderstood methods of treatment for arthritis. Cortisone is a natural hormone that adrenal glands make. These glands are the small glands on the top part of the kidneys.
In my last article I tried to explain what arthritis is. In this article, I would like to talk about the signs, symptoms and some treatments for arthritis. The two most common symptoms of arthritis are pain and stiffness in a joint.
Arthritis is a process that involves the cartilage in joints. Joints are where the ends of two bones come together (articulate). There is almost always movement at the joint in between the ends of the two bones (or sometimes more than two bones) ...
When we last left off, we had talked about various shoulder surgeries. What is often forgotten is that the rehabilitation/physical therapy after surgery is just as important, if not more important, than the surgery itself.
As all of Auburn is aware of, we lost an icon in the sports world last month. I consider myself unbelievably, extremely lucky to have met, gotten to know and consider myself a friend of Leo Pinckney.
Under the clinical direction of Dale Buchberger, Director of Physical Therapy, and John Henry, Jr., Practice Administrator, Victory Sports Medicine & Orthopedics has now opened the new physical therapy space at Victory Sports Medicine ...
This is part II of my series on the shoulder. When we last left off, we had talked about the role of conservative treatment such as physical therapy for the shoulder. There are other forms of “conservative” treatment that we often utilize for ...
As a sports medicine specialist, I take care of many different joints in many different patients. The shoulder is my favorite joint. I have had the privilege and good fortune to be trained by the world’s best shoulder surgeon, Dr. James Andrews in ...
Why communication? Communication is one of the most important things we do as a physician/health care provider. It is, unfortunately, one of the things that gets neglected most often by us as health care providers.
Dr. Marc Pietropaoli, President of Victory Sports Medicine & Orthopedics is proud to announce the winners of the 2006 Scholar / Athlete Scholarship: Recipients are selected for the $500 scholarship based on combined athletic and ...
Auburn Citizen – Doctor Marc Pietropaoli-Victory Sports Medicine