MEDICAL SPOTLIGHT
RETURN TO
ACTION Clinic helps patients back on their feet
BY JEANA DURST
Tin Vuong, DO
Tin Vuong, DO, is board certified At some point in our lives, it’s likely that we’ve all dealt with in family medicine and board an injury. For some of us, recovery may have even been a long eligible in sports medicine. He process. This fall as your kids return to the athletic fields and is fellowship trained in primary you hit the trails, it can be a risky time. Even if you have planned care sports medicine. With a carefully or been faithful to athletic training, the fact is that you specialization in fracture care, can still get hurt. And it doesn’t take constant activity to produce concussion management, diagnostic and therapeutic an injury—even an intense tennis match or an old injury can be musculoskeletal ultrasound, enough to cause a problem. ultrasound-guided injections, Fortunately, Dr. Tin Vuong and the other physicians at stem cell treatment, platelet rich Precision Sports Medicine and Orthopedics are trained to plasma and tenex procedure, he diagnose and treat a wide range of sports injuries and conditions. can treat a host of issues. Here Dr. Vuong shares with us more about their practice, as Dr. Vuong attended medical well as how they can get you (or your student athlete) back in school at A.T. Still University the game. Precision Sports Medicine physicians are trained to School of Osteopathic Medicine diagnose and treat a full range of sports-related injuries and in Mesa, Arizona, and completed conditions, including but not limited to: his family medicine internship and • Back, neck, hip, shoulder and foot pain residency at Palmetto General • Broken bones or stress fractures Hospital in Hialeah, Florida. • Knee problems, including those related to the anterior cruciate ligament (ACL) • Muscle, tendon and joint pain • Shin splints, plantar fasciitis, and iliotibial (IT) band pain • Sciatica (numbness or pain in or around lower back, hip or knee) • Joint replacement surgeries Dr. Vuong elaborates on his role there: “As a sports medicine physician, I see a wide variety of muscle skeletal injuries that range from fractured bones, muscles, ligament, strains to chronic overuse injuries and degenerative conditions.” Every one of these injuries can occur acutely on the field or can be something that happens over time. Many of the patients who have injuries are those who don’t exercise regularly and just try to be weekend warriors, he explains. “While the pro athletes and collegiate level athletes keep in top shape year-round, weekend warriors just get out Friday through Sunday, so they are more susceptible to joint inflammation, muscle strains, and ligament sprains.” For the student athletes, their practice plays another important role: providing primary care attention as well. For some younger athletes, primary healthcare needs may coexist with an injury. Dr. Vuong can address some general issues in the course of treatment that can support injury recovery. His main goal? Get athletes and weekend warriors back in action so they can continue doing what they love. Precision Sports Medicine is part of the Brookwood Baptist Specialty Care Network. For more information, visit precisionsportsortho.com. 28 Bham Family October 2020
