Dr. Lindsey Whiteman discusses Sports Medicine and Sports Physicals

Graves Gilbert Clinic's Dr. Lindsey Whiteman discuss Sports Medicine for the recreational athlete all the way to the professional athlete! As you or your athlete gear up for your season, make getting a sports physical a priority! Give us a call at 270-781-5111 to set up your appointment.

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Transcript of Dr. Whiteman here:
So my name is Dr. Lindsey Whiteman. I am Sports Medicine and Family Medicine here at Graves Gilbert.

So Sports Medicine is a field of medicine that focuses attention on the athlete and we deal with a wide variety of athletes, whether it's the elite level athlete, professional, or Division one college level athlete and then we see the recreational athletes. So the people in their 40's and 50's that like to do marathons, half marathons, we see a lot of those.

We see some older people that just enjoy walking around their neighborhood or walking at the mall and they're having a little bit of knee pain, a little bit of arthritis. We treat them too.

We see a lot of children too. Bumps, bruises, sprains, you know fractures we can treat fractures as long as there's not a surgical indication for that.

It's highly recommended that each individual under the age of 18 and even into college gets a sports physical. The reason is sometimes we're able to find things that maybe have been missed. In the past a lot of kids unfortunately especially when they get to be teenagers they don't go to the doctor for their annual physical and they're still growing and developing. They could develop something that we may catch on a sports physical.

We also screen for cardiac problems and we screen for concussion issues.

So some recommendations we make for our youth getting back into the swing of sports is to do a little bit of exercise at home prior to going back. We have a lot of football players right now starting back to football this month.

It's much more difficult if you haven't done anything and then you get there and coach is running you in the heat. So and you know that goes for all sports is just to have somewhat of some conditioning before you go back to your sport just so it's not such a shock to your body when you go from doing nothing in the air conditioning to back outside running your lines or your poles or whatever it is.

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