Orthopedics
Sports Medicine and Athletic Training Services
Good Call!
Lake Hospital System offers a 24/7 Sports Injury Hotline for residents of Lake County and surrounding areas. When you suffer a sports injury, call 1-866-247-4806 for immediate advice. A sports medicine adviser will tell you whether you should treat the injury yourself, go to the Emergency Department, or see your physician. If you don’t have a physician, the adviser will arrange a next-day appointment with a doctor in our sports medicine network.
If your physician recommends diagnostic testing, Lake Hospital System offers the most advanced imaging technology available today. Our capabilities include a powerful MRI, a state-of-the-art open MRI, and a 16-slice CT scanner that produces detailed images that can be reconstructed in three dimensions. We also offer the convenience of general X-rays without an appointment.
If your injury requires physical therapy, you’l l be in good hands with our sports medicine therapists. In addition to personalized therapy programs, we offer massotherapy, hand therapy, aquatic therapy, and a golf program to reduce injuries and increase flexibility.
If your injury requires surgery–whether it’s minimally invasive arthroscopic surgery or total joint replacement–the physicians in our sports medicine network offer innovative surgical techniques designed to produce quicker recovery, less pain, and less scarring.
24/7 Sports Injury Hotline
1-866-247-4806
Athletic Training Services
Lake Hospital System provides athletic training services to Harvey High School in Painesville, Riverside High School in Painesville Township, Eastlake North High School, Perry High School, Madison High School, Kirtland High School, The Andrews School in Willoughby, and Lakeland Community College.
The role of an athletic trainer is to help prevent player injuries. They do that by educating players about injury prevention, watching for unsafe situations, and administering pre-game taping. If an injury does occur, the trainers evaluate it, provide first aid, and manage follow-up care. They also discuss the injury with the athlete’s parents and coach.
The trainers review tapes of the games and provide office hours at the schools they cover, so they can evaluate injuries that occurred since the last game.
Most of the trainers also work for Lake Hospital System’s Rehabilitation Services Department, so if an injured player needs rehab after an injury, the trainer can facilitate that therapy.
The athletic trainers also set up physicals for the student athletes before each season and run a coach’s certification clinic, which includes CPR training and instruction on using an automatic external defibrillator (AED).
The session focuses on teaching coaches how to recognize the difference between an injury that requires immediate medical attention and one that doesn’t. Coaches also learn about sports nutrition, including information about dietary supplements and how to recognize eating disorders. Another component covers dealing with medical conditions, such as diabetes, asthma, epilepsy, allergies, and skin infections.
The clinic, known as the Pupil Activity Supervisor Validation Program, is mandated by the state for middle school and high school coaches every three years. The coaches come from schools across the Greater Cleveland area to learn injury prevention, injury management, universal precautions, and how the revised privacy law (HIPAA) affects them.
Lake Hospital System offers the clinic several times a year, usually at the beginning of each sports season. Between 50 and 150 coaches attend each clinic.
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