Sharyl J. Truty M.D.

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What is Sports Medicine?
or Primary Care Musculoskeletal Medicine

Patients

My training focuses on a primary care approach to sports medicine.

In this approach, I look to find as many alternatives to surgery as possible for any one problem. I treat people of all ages, sizes, and level of ability and expereince.

Whether you are in high school paticipating in on a team, or a highly competitive athlete training for an elite event, a weekend warrior looking get back into your sqash game or a senior athletic warrior defying the aging process, working together, we can find a solution to what is holding you back from maintaining your active lifestyle.

In the area of musculosketeltal medicine or orthopedic medicine, I can treat:

  • a wide variety of muscle sprains and strains both acute and chronic
    • such as: shoulder pain, knee pain, ankle and foot pain
  • nerve compression problems
    • such as: carpel tunnel, tennis elbow, sciatica
  • on the job injuries/worker's compensation cases
  • arthritis
    • such as: osteoarthritis of the kness, cervical spine
  • chronic pain
    • such as: lumbar spodylolysis & spondylolisthesis, herniated disks
  • biomechanical issues
    • foot pain with running, shoulder pain with swimming, back pain with golfing

 

My training in general medicine has provided me with the experience not only address orthopedic issues, but medical issues that can surround a muscle and bone problems.

Competitive Athletes, Weekend Warriors and Non-Athletes can all......

  • struggle with asthma                                   
  • experience chest pain and dizziness                                   
  • compete despite having diabetes                                   
  • wonder: Can I exercise while I'm pregnant?                                   
  • develop problems with their bladder due to running                                   
  • run into problems with their period due to overtraining                                   
  • need to travel to Asia to compete                                   
  • develop depression due to chronic pain

This is what sets a primary care sports medicine trained physician apart from these other specialties is the ability to integrate a person as a whole.  As a field we are able to treat simple fractures, a variety of muscle sprains and strains, nerve compression problems, arthritis and chronic pain.  But, to understand what motivates some one to compete or to have to get back to work to earn a paycheck means to understand the patient as a person an to use all available methods to get that person back into life so they can achieve what they need or desire to do.

My goal as your physician is to investigate your problems as a whole, discover any underling medical or biomechanical issues at the core of your problems.  Then, you and I, in a patient-physician partnership, discuss all available methods of which I am aware, to treat your problem.  This includes acupuncture.

I am one of the few sports medicine and licensed allopathic physicians (MD) in the Chicago area that integrates acupuncture into their practice.  I have found this to be a very effective method to control pain and speed the recovery of injury.