FirstRehab Orthopaedics - Sports Medicine

Baptist Health Care FirstRehab is the sports medicine care provider for Santa Rosa and Escambia county high school athletes. Through its commitment to the schools, Baptist FirstRehab provides comprehensive sports medicine services year round, both on and off the playing field. Certified athletic trainers (ATCs) are assigned to each school in the county. Trainers visit the school daily to evaluate athletes. They provide coverage at practices and home games for injury evaluation and management, plus follow-up care. Saturday morning injury clinics are provided at the respective schools during football season. The ATCs are available to the coaches, parents and athletes for consultation, advice and assistance. The trainers help navigate athletes through the healthcare delivery process.

In addition to physical conditioning, maintenance and rehabilitation, FirstRehab’s ATCs and therapists are providing sports medicine education and instruction for athletes, coaches and athletic organizations, including a glimpse into sports medicine career opportunities.

Baptist FirstRehab ATCs will work alongside the schools’ team physicians. This year Baptist Health Care and affiliated physicians have provided more than 1,800 free sports physicals for athletes in both Escambia and Santa Rosa counties. Through the partnership with the schools, FirstRehab provides the physicals, valued at $400,000, at no charge to parents.

Baptist Health Care is teaming up with our area’s best sports medicine physicians, therapists and athletic trainers, and with Dr. Jim Andrews, nationally renowned orthopaedic surgeon, to develop a world-class institute for orthopaedics and sports medicine. The institute will be located adjacent to the Gulf Breeze Hospital campus. Affiliated physicians are now seeing patients throughout the community. The Andrews institute in Gulf Breeze will be open in October 2006.

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