Sports Medicine Archives - Sanford Health News

CJ Ham lifts weights at Sanford POWER.

Sanford POWER, academies reopen for limited business May 11

Guidelines are in place to ensure athlete and member safety

Paul Heinert ⋅ 4 min read

Tony Smoragiewicz wants to make the U.S. Olympic team as a triathlete. He's also an intern for the Sanford Sports Science Institute.

Olympics on hold but training goes on for Sanford triathlete

Mick Garry ⋅ 13 min read

Aerial view of a basketball court with several games of pickleball going down the length of the room.

Pickleball offers wellness and good company

Mick Garry ⋅ 10 min read

young athlete working with trainer

Athletic trainers engage and challenge

Pat Miller ⋅ 8 min read

Male basketball player shooting

Athletic trainer helps keep ankle injury from ending season

Alexandra Johnson ⋅ 7 min read

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

'Mental coaching' teaches athletes ups and downs are part of the fun

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

Biomechanical engineer oversees studies on golf, other sports for Sanford Health

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

Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy is common genetic 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

Athletes will get Sanford expertise and training in California and South Dakota

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

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

Emergency vs urgent care: The ER isn’t for everything

SHN Staff ⋅ 6 min read

NDSU, Sanford Health share strong connections in title run

Mick Garry ⋅ 10 min read