Sports medicine: Treating the athlete, not the injury

The field of sports medicine isn’t just for serious athletes: The Nicholas Institute for Sports Medicine and Athletic Trauma (NISMAT), Northwell’s sports injury clinic, has made sports medicine better, more accessible, and grounded in research. On this episode, the 20-Minute Health Talk team pays a visit to NISMAT, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year, to talk to Tak Fukunaga, DPT, ATC, CSCS, sports physical therapist and NISMAT’s Manager of Rehabilitation Services, and Michael Zacchilli, MD, orthopedic sports medicine surgeon at Lenox Health Greenwich Village and team physician for the College of Staten Island, to shed light on what they do to treat people at all levels of physical activity. More from the experts ACL tears and the menstrual cycle: Is there a connection? Dr. Amy West discusses on the latest 20-Minute Health Talk. Drs. Zachilli and Fukunaga explain why seeing a sports medicine physician is for everyone — not just athletes. Learn common causes of pain under the left rib cage. Have pain under the right rib cage? An emergency medicine physician breaks down the most common causes, and what to do for each. Dr. Zacchilli weighs in on Covid protocols in sports during the first wave of the pandemic. Dr. Zacchilli offers tips on how to handle youth sports during Covid-19.