The landscape of Austin Orthopedics and Sports Medicine has evolved where you as a patient now have the choice of where to obtain the highest quality care for your knee and leg injuries and chronic conditions. The orthopedic specialists at Joint Pain Orthopedics have the knee subspecialty training required to effectively diagnose and manage your sports medicine injuries, orthopedic injuries and degenerative conditions. Sports medicine in Austin and Central Texas today encompasses a broad array of knee and leg injuries managed both operatively and non-operatively for the patients that enjoy physical activity.
Our goal at the Joint Pain Orthopedics Sports Medicine department is to maximize function, minimize pain and get you back to what you love to do as soon as medically possible. It doesn’t matter if you are a high-school athlete, weekend warrior, Pickleball champion or leisure golfer. We are comfortable taking care of the patient at whatever level of competition.
What can we do for knee conditions and injuries? The following list provides a list of available knee and leg treatments at Joint Pain Orthopedics. This is not a comprehensive list of the treatments we provide, so please excuse us if you don’t find what you were looking for here. Schedule an appointment with one of our specialists to discuss all of your options.
Instability in the knee associated with buckling after a collision or twisting injury may be an indicator of a rupture of the ACL. Bracing or activity modification may be all you need, but if the symptoms are still persistent, then you may be a better candidate for an ACL reconstruction.
A fall down the stairs can lead to swelling in the knee associated with severe weakness or an inability to straighten the leg again. A rupture of the quadriceps or patellar tendons may be required to get you back to what you love.
A hard twist in the knee associated with a popping sound and pain could indicate you sustained a tear to the meniscus of the knee. Some patients may be candidates for a surgical repair or debridement. In other cases, physical therapy and bracing could be all you need.
Common sports and accident injuries of the knee and leg include:
Football: ACL rupture, MCL strain, meniscus tear, patella fracture
Golf: meniscus tear, MCL sprain
Pickleball & Tennis: meniscus tear, ligament strain, and cartilage damage
Basketball: ACL rupture, meniscus tear, patellar tendon rupture
The benefit of care at Joint Pain Orthopedics is the specialization that our orthopedic providers have, which allows us to laser focus on a small subset of knee and leg conditions that affects a great percentage of people with sports injuries and chronic conditions. This allows us to treat every condition with operative and non-operative measures giving you the ability to remain with one clinic for all of your musculoskeletal care! No gimmicks or surprises. Just good old fashion care from competent providers.
