Kansas City's Pickleball Injury Experts 

​Our sports medicine providers are here to help break down the rigors of pickleball.  From structural injuries to overuse/mechanical complications, we have you covered. 

Pickleball is a rapidly emerging sport.  Our clinic has emerged as one of the leading experts in pickleball injuries.  The niche specialization is a combination of knowledge of sports medicine injuries and the specific nuances of pickleball.  The unmatched and remarkable popularity of the sport across all age groups lends itself to a multitude of injury mechanisms. 
The quick pace, rapid direction change, and repetitive motions, presents pickleball players with a distinct set of injury patterns that require a specialized understanding and assessment to effectively treat and prevent. 

Our providers work with some of the countries best of the best when it comes to pickleball.  Working to recover from and prevent injury is at the heart of our pickleball speciality.   

Detect 

​Thorough evaluation is essential in assessing an athlete's injury or vulnerability to future injury.  Our providers use a unique combination of orthopedic, function and mechanical assessments. 

• Clearance of structural pathology of joints and soft tissues is an essential step of our process.  If further diagnostic testing such as Xray or MRI are necessary our providers will refer patients accordingly. 
• Isolated movement patterns help our team assessment of functional deficiencies.  These deficiencies can be acquired through sedentary lifestyles, workstation ergonomics, previous injury or congenital abnormalities.  
• Mechanical assessments can be technical and sometimes will require a referral or coordination with a pickleball professional.

Correct

• During this phase of our process athletes are taken through a series of treatments that may include:
  • ​In office treatments consisting of manual body work, rehabilitation exercises, passive modalities and others 
  • Home Exercise Programming (HEP)
  • Swing mechanic/sport specific modifications
• Our goal is to create efficiency in an athlete's movements.  Efficiency leads to decreased chronic stress to tissue and improves capacity of those tissues 
• The number one predictor for injury is previous injury.  When injuries are not properly treated they will eventually lead to reinjury or subsequently cause pathology elsewhere in the body
• Many of our pickleball players present with overuse injuries of the upper or lower extremity.  Overuse injuries are avoidable when utilizing proper movement patterns,  technical form and recovery techniques. 

Prevent

• Pickleball is a demanding sport on the entire body.  The sudden movement from side to side and the quick pace of the game place stress on the body.  
• Maintaining and addressing the stressors of the game will lead to longevity and pain free pickleball.
•  Areas we urge pickleball players to focus on for durability include:
  • ​Shoulder mobility
  • Low back/Core Stability
  • Hip mobility
  • Lateral (side to side) agility
  • Ankle Mobility
• Proper warm up which includes functional movements that highlight the areas listed above will help improve on-court function.

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