Sports Medicine Archives - Sanford Health News

Logan Storley works out with a punching bag and gloves

Sanford MMA athletes see great benefit in partnership

Medical team makes sure athletes are in good shape before bouts and long after

Mick Garry ⋅ 10 min read

Courtney Thompson holds a volleyball while speaking to a circle of youth players on the volleyball court at the Sanford Pentagon.

Two-time Olympian counsels and coaches at Pentagon

Mick Garry ⋅ 7 min read

Lisa MacFadden stands in front of a Sanford Sports Science Institute sign. She serves as director of the institute.

Lisa MacFadden makes research look like a game

Jane Thaden Lawson ⋅ 16 min read

A line of cross country runners' legs are shown in this illustration for a story about hypertrophic cardiomyopathy/

Athletic sudden collapse could be serious heart condition

Jane Thaden Lawson ⋅ 10 min read

College football player and Rep 1 Sports athlete Matt Hennessy runs on a treadmill with a Sanford Health staff member timing him. A red sign in the background says Sanford Sports Science Institute.

Sanford POWER teams with Rep 1 Sports to help NFL prospects

Paul Heinert ⋅ 4 min read

A golfer, Randall Brouwer, tees off at Great Shots on a winter day.

Golfers get year-round opportunity to improve at Great Shots

'The offseason is a time when you can really get some work done'

Mick Garry ⋅ 9 min read

Sanford Health's Dr. Bruce Piatt has worked with the North Dakota State football program for 23 years and will be on the sidelines with the Bison for their eighth national championship game this week in Frisco, Texas.

NDSU, Sanford Health share strong connections in title run

Sanford doctors have worked with Bison during string of national football titles

Mick Garry ⋅ 10 min read

resolutions: runners drinking water

3 New Year’s resolutions athletes can work on this year

Don't set yourself up to feel defeated by too-big resolutions and diets that don’t work.

Lizzie Kasparek ⋅ 7 min read

anti-gravity treadmill: therapist coaches patient ethnic diversity

Anti-gravity treadmill promotes healing with weightlessness

By protecting weaker tissue, technology helps all ages and experience levels

Michelle Erpenbach ⋅ 4 min read

Worthington High School football players run onto Trojan Field wearing black and red uniforms and high-fiving football alumni.

Sanford Health pledges gift to Worthington athletic facility

$1 million to be paid out over 10 years to improve Trojan Field

Shawn Neisteadt ⋅ 5 min read

A daytime exterior shot of the Sanford Sports Complex Acute Care and Orthopedic Fast Track Clinic, just one of the Sioux Falls walk-in clinics.

Sanford Health walk-in clinics offer close, quick help

Patients north of city are excited about new clinic at Sanford Sports Complex

Jane Thaden Lawson ⋅ 5 min read

Great Shots attendees hanging out in front of the range

Great Shots impresses those getting their first look

Sneak a peek inside this year-round golf and entertainment facility

Mick Garry ⋅ 7 min read

Two trainers kneel next to a seated SDSU football player on the field with a referee in the background.

Sanford Health doctors ready for ESPN’s GameDay

Friendly rivalry on display as both SDSU and NDSU have Sanford team physicians

Mick Garry ⋅ 9 min read

Skyforce player Bubu Palo works out on a shuttle machine at Sanford POWER as strength and conditioning coach Hunter Glascock looks on.

Pro basketball offseason relies on Sanford trainers

Sanford POWER, Sanford Orthopedics & Sports Medicine prepare for tipoff

Mick Garry ⋅ 10 min read

Adam Thielen scores a touchdown for the Minnesota Vikings with a Philadelphia Eagles player right behind him.

NFL Sanford Health athletes gather in Minneapolis

3 Vikings, 3 Eagles wear opposing uniforms but come together for community

Mick Garry ⋅ 13 min read

Sanford NFL players have varied backgrounds, common goals

Mick Garry ⋅ 9 min read

Type 1 diabetic turns diagnosis into career

Vanessa Carlson Bender ⋅ 13 min read

Gymnast learns lessons working back from serious knee injury

Mick Garry ⋅ 13 min read

NDSU, Sanford Health share strong connections in title run

Mick Garry ⋅ 10 min read

3 New Year’s resolutions athletes can work on this year

Lizzie Kasparek ⋅ 7 min read