The Sports Medicine Team at Denver Health's Orthopedic Center of Excellence provides care you can trust to recover from common and complex sports injuries. Whether you are a little league baseball pitcher, a weekend golfer or a professional athlete, you will receive the best care possible from our highly-trained, world-class physicians. We focus on clinical and surgical care for all types of shoulder, elbow, hip, and knee injuries in young athletes, the "more mature" sports and exercise lover, and in hard working folks who develop joint problems. If you've injured yourself to the point where you cannot stand up and put weight on your leg, or if you can't bend or lift your arm – call us today, so we can give you some orthopedic help.
We share a goal of wanting to get you back to doing what you love regardless of your level of athletic expertise.
Denver Sports Medicine Surgeons & Team
Our team of two fellowship-trained sports surgeons and a fellowship-trained shoulder and elbow surgeon make Denver Health a great place to seek care for all types of injuries to the shoulder, elbow, hip and knee. We work with a dedicated group of physician assistants and nurses to ensure that we can see that patients are evaluated in a timely fashion following their injuries.
Ian Backlund, MD and Jarrod King, MD, are orthopedic sports medicine fellowship trained surgeons who specialize in the arthroscopic treatment of shoulder, hip, and knee injuries of all sorts. We focus on returning people to the things they love like snow sports, mountain biking, hiking and all the other activities Colorado is commonly known for. Common procedures performed include ACL reconstruction, meniscus repair, cartilage restoration, stabilization surgery for shoulder dislocations and acromioclavicular separations, rotator cuff repairs, hip labral repairs, and many more.
Jessica Churchill, MD is a fellowship-trained shoulder and elbow surgeon with expertise in all shoulder and elbow problems. Common procedures performed include standard and reverse shoulder replacement, rotator ruff repair, elbow ligament and tendon repair, repair of fractures of the shoulder and elbow, and many more.
Denver Sports Medicine & Rehabilitation Services
Denver Health has an in-house rehabilitation department where experts in physical and occupational therapy treat all types of injuries and ailments. Our rehab clinic and gym are located on the same floor adjacent to our orthopedic clinic and communication between surgeons and therapists is direct, frequent and critical for providing prompt feedback between these disciplines, ensuring patients get timely, high-quality care. We pride ourselves on providing great care of patients, first by diagnosing the problem correctly, then by starting with high quality non-surgical care like therapy, then by performing highly skilled surgical care if needed. Rehab after surgery is crucial to good results in both surgical and non-surgical care and we take an active role in supervising our patients in post-operative care.
We also provide the same great care for all our patients with joint problems related to living the active Colorado lifestyle.
Learn more about our second opinion service and second chance treatment options.
