Hi, my name is Dr. Kari Rezac, DO, a sports medicine physician at Tahoe Forest Health System. If you’re an athlete, whether or not you’re the weekend warrior, you’re the professional athlete, or you’re just a person who really loves to stay fit, you’re probably very well familiar with the ups and downs of sports.
Here at Tahoe Forest Sports Medicine Department, we really love to get you back in doing what you love, whether it be the acute injuries that you have that take you out right away or if it’s the chronic aches that really mess with your day to day. What we do here is simple. We want to get you back to your sport or your activity as quickly, safely, and as efficiently as possible.
Whether it be the sprain of the ankle or chronic tendinitis, we want to make sure that we’re getting you back quickly to the sport that you love and doing what you love to do. We take a comprehensive approach, and in doing so we have a lot of tools at our disposal. One of them is injections. We can either do standard or ultrasound-guided injections. In our injections we can use a variety of medications including cortisone or something newer like PRP, or platelet-rich plasma.
We can also look at you from a holistic, whole-person perspective. We can give nutrition advice, we can get you hooked up with the right referrals such as physical therapy, occupational therapy, a nutritionist or dietitian, or even a mental health coach if you need it. Here at Tahoe Forest, it’s not just about treating the injury, it’s also about preventing future injuries as well.
In doing so, when we evaluate, we value you as a whole person. We look at your biomechanics and we see if there are any deficiencies there. For instance, if you’re a runner who’s always having tendinitis of the ankle or the foot, maybe it’s your glutes. That is a common reason that people are actually having foot injuries. If we can strengthen your glutes with the idea that you’re having weakness in your glutes, and we give you that biomechanic evaluation, we give you the right referrals to our great physical therapists, and then we get you tuned up so that hopefully in the long run not only are you a better runner, but now you don’t have any of those chronic injuries anymore.
Whether you’re looking to recover from an injury or if you’re looking to just improve your sport performance, the Sports Medicine Department here at Tahoe Forest can certainly help you, meet you where you’re at, and hopefully get you there faster, better, and with fewer setbacks.
My name is Dr. Kari Rezac, a sports medicine physician here at Tahoe Forest Health System. Thank you so much for watching.
