Dr. Lenore Herget is a Clinical Specialist within the Mass General Sports Medicine Physical Therapy Department, Board Certified in Sports Physical Therapy, Faculty for MGH/Northeastern University Sports Residency, Certified Strength and Conditioning Specialist, Certified Clinical Instructor and Emergency Medical Responder.

She is a member of the New England Patriots Medical Staff and serves as the Concussion Rehabilitation Consultant to the Boston Bruins, Boston Red Sox, New England Revolution, Boston Celtics, Home Base Program and the Mass General Sports Concussion Clinic.

She received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Theatre and Psychology from Wheaton College in 2000, her Masters in Education degree from SUNY in 2005, her post baccalaureate pre-med certificate from Hunter College in 2006 and her Doctor of Physical Therapy degree from MGH Institute of Health Professions in 2009.

Dr. Herget's practice includes rehabilitating athletes who have sustained a sports related concussion; most specifically evaluating and treating high school through professional level athletes with concussions and assisting in their safe return to play. Her research has focused on management of athletes with post-concussion syndrome and the efficacy of pre-season and post-season visuo-vestibular testing to aid in return to play decision making, differentiating between concussion and cervicogenic symptom presentation, alternative exercise testing protocols and considerations in the military population. She has lectured nationally on the topics of concussion and the non-acute management of athletes with post-concussive syndrome.

Additionally, Dr. Herget focuses her orthopaedic practice on the biomechanical assessment and management of lower quarter injuries, specifically hamstring strains, tears, and ruptures with a focus on step wise rehabilitation to return to play and prevention of reinjury; and uses experience from her dry needling certification courses when appropriate. She heads up the conservative rehabilitation branch of Mass General Sports Medicine Hamstring Center of Excellence which involves the triage and management of patients with acute and chronic hamstring injuries, data collection and development and utilization of a standardized return to sport/function rehabilitation plan.