Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus expands outpatient services to include comprehensive Sports Medicine Program

Photo cutline: Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus’ sports medicine team is ready to care for and treat athletes of all ages and abilities.

Photo credit: Paul Kuntz, Texas Children’s Hospital

Complete program provides preeminent sports medicine care for athletes of all ages and levels

HOUSTON – (Jan. 24, 2012) – Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus – Houston’s first community hospital designed, built and equipped exclusively for children –announces the expansion of outpatient services to include a new Sports Medicine Program dedicated to treating children for all types of sports-related injuries. Learn more or make an appointment by calling 832-22-SPORT (77678).

This new program provides comprehensive and convenient sports medicine care to the West Houston community and utilizes an interdisciplinary approach for the diagnosis, evaluation and treatment of children and adolescents from the physically active individual to the premier adolescent athlete.

“We are excited to expand our outpatient services to include a dedicated Sports Medicine Program,” says Michelle Riley-Brown, senior vice president of Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus. “With this comprehensive program we are able to bring together highly skilled physicians across a variety of sub-specialties related to sports medicine care to fill a critical niche for the athletes in our community.”

The multidisciplinary Sports Medicine Program team is comprised of primary care sports medicine physicians, pediatric orthopaedic surgeons, pediatric and musculoskeletal radiologists and sports-focused physical therapists, all of whom have specialized training and emphasis on pediatric and adolescent sports conditions. Patients of the new program also have access to other medical services needed to appropriately care for a sports injury including pediatric emergency medicine, pediatric cardiology, pediatric neurology, pediatric pulmonary medicine and pediatric regional anesthesia.

While the Sports Medicine Program at Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus places a large emphasis on wellness and injury prevention, athletic injuries –whether minor or serious – are unfortunately inevitable. This program treats patients with any type of athletic-related injury including, but not limited to, knee pain, concussions, exercise-induced asthma and conditions affecting sports performance.

The Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus Sports Medicine Program team includes:
• Dr. Jorge Gomez – primary care sports medicine
• Dr. Megan May – sports medicine and pediatric orthopaedic surgery
• Dr. Scott McKay – sports medicine and pediatric orthopaedic surgery
• Dr. J. Herman Kan – pediatric musculoskeletal imaging

Conveniently located at I-10 and Barker Cypress, Texas Children’s Hospital West Campus offers inpatient and outpatient services and houses the only dedicated 24/7 pediatric emergency room in Greater West Houston.

Visit www.westcampus.texaschildrens.org for more information.