Our Harvard Medical School-affiliated sports medicine specialists provide treatment & rehabilitation for recreational and professional athletes, preventing and repairing injuries in active patients of all ages and skill levels.
Mass General Brigham Sports Medicine leads the nation in sports medicine research, technology and innovation. This is the place where doctors listen to both your body and your dreams. Whether you’re a collegiate athlete, a weekend warrior, or just committed to living an active lifestyle, our experts will help you safely and quickly return to the sports and activities you love.
The Mass General Brigham Sports Medicine team cares for the whole athlete and addresses any injury. We are the sports specialists that elite athletes from the New England Patriots to Division 1 college players depend on. We offer a full range of services tailored to your needs, including sports conditioning and injury prevention, advanced surgical and non-surgical treatment options, and injury rehabilitation.
Massachusetts General Hospital clinicians collaborate with sports medicine specialists across the Mass General Brigham network at other world-class centers like Brigham and Women's, Newton-Wellesley Hospital and the Spaulding Rehabilitation Network in order to provide the most advanced, customized medical treatment plans available for your sports injury. We help you optimize your recovery and achieve your goals. Our clinical team, which includes surgeons, physiatrists, nurses and rehabilitation therapists, has over 160 years of combined experience in the research and practice of sports medicine.
The Sports Medicine Service at Mass General is a multidisciplinary team made up of doctors from diverse experiential backgrounds. Our team treats novice and professional athletes competing in every major sport, including:
Archery
Ballet
Ballroom Dancing
Baseball
Basketball
Circus Arts / Acrobatics
Climbing
Cross Country
Cross-country Skiing
Diving
Downhill Skiing
Field Hockey
Football
Golf
Gymnastics
Ice Hockey
Kickball
Lacrosse
Marathons
Martial Arts
Parkour
Rowing/Crew
Rugby
Running
Sailing
SCUBA Diving / Skin Diving
Soccer
Softball
Surfing
Swimming
Tennis
Track & Field Activities
Triathalons
Volleyball
Waterskiing
Windsurfing
Yoga
Some of the best scholastic, collegiate and professional sports teams and organizations in the world entrust their athletic care to our sports medicine team.
Mass General Brigham’s Director of Professional Sports, Peter Asnis, MD, is also head team physician for the Boston Bruins. Our sports medicine program has provided orthopedic care for Boston’s elite professional sports teams for decades.
Mass General Brigham sports medicine orthopaedic surgeon Robert Nascimento, MD, wears many hats, one of which being his role as head team physician and medical director of Boston College Athletics.
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Conditions & Treatments
Our specialists can evaluate any sport-related injury and work with you to customize a treatment plan aligned to your goals and regimen, based on your age, gender, overall health and the severity of your condition. Explore the links below to see common sports-related injuries we treat, along with the many surgical and non-surgical treatments we offer for pain and injuries.
Our sports medicine specialists can tackle your back problems and clear you for play.
Sports Physical Therapy & Rehabilitation Program
Mass General's dedicated physical therapy team is an integral part of the sports medicine services we offer. These board-certified clinicians work closely with our physicians and patient-athletes to return them to the sports they love quickly and safely.
We offer a full range of both surgical and non-surgical treatments for sports injuries, and our team of specialists includes some of the most prominent practitioners of minimally invasive surgery and complex joint reconstruction in the U.S. Many of our specialists are athletes themselves and will work with you to develop a treatment plan that is fast, effective and highly adaptable. At Mass General, you are an integral part of your own medical care team.
Team Physician: New England Revolution, USA Paralympic Soccer; Consultant: New England Patriots, Boston Bruins, Harvard University, Curry College, Suffolk University
Associate Program Director: Spaulding/Harvard Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation Residency Training Program
Sports Medicine Research and Development at Mass General
Scott Martin, MD, sports medicine orthopaedic surgeon and director of the Joint Preservation Service and the Sports Medicine Fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses his research into the labrum and the chondrolabral junction of the shoulder.
Miho Tanaka, MD, orthopedic surgeon and director of the Women's Sports Medicine Program in the Department of Orthopaedics at Massachusetts General Hospital, discusses some of her research on knee injuries.
Jon JP Warner, MD, Co-Chief of Shoulder Service, discusses his research on the value of care delivery and how new virtual planning tools eliminate trial and error in the OR.
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Mass General serves as the gold standard for global medical research as the largest hospital-based research program to receive NIH support, with more than one billion dollars in research operations funding. Approximately 1,200 clinical trials are taking place at Mass General at any given time. Mass General attracts the world’s leading sports medicine clinicians and researchers, who are constantly testing and improving practices, procedures and technology with the shared goal of improving patient outcomes.
Below are a few examples of sports medicine research currently underway at Mass General:
Mass General’s Women’s Sports Medicine Program leads the advancement of women’s sports and exercise medicine through multidisciplinary expert clinical care, research and education. As women continually break barriers in their careers in sports, the Women’s Sports Medicine Program at Mass General is designed to support the growing medical needs of this unique population.
Mass General’s Foot & Ankle Research and Innovation Lab (FARIL) is a state-of-the-art lab committed to a comprehensive understanding of foot and ankle health. FARIL develops novel approaches to foot & ankle education, technology and innovation and is dedicated to delivering the best care to patients of all athletic abilities.
Boston Red Sox team physicians and Mass General Brigham Sports Medicine providers Peter Asnis, MD, Miho J. Tanaka, MD, PhD, and Evan O’Donnell, MD, recently visited JetBlue Park in Fort Myers, Florida for spring training.
The Mass General Brigham Sports Medicine team provided Boston Public Schools student-athletes with free pre-season physicals earlier this month at Madison Park Technical High School in Roxbury.
For 25-year-old Emily Mellen, running is everything. So when hip and knee pain started flaring up during her runs, she knew one thing for certain: She wasn't giving up her sport without a fight.
As a lifelong competitive athlete, Sasha has experienced three bike crashes. He received care at multiple Mass General locations over several years and worked with teams of orthopedic surgeons and physical therapists to build a multidisciplinary approach to his recovery.
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Sports Medicine Service
Our Harvard Medical School-affiliated sports medicine specialists provide treatment & rehabilitation for recreational and professional athletes, preventing and repairing injuries in active patients of all ages and skill levels.
