Sports Medicine

The goal of Sports Medicine is the prevention and cure of athletic injuries. This is an ever increasing challenge for the orthopedist. As athletes - both recreational and professional - acquire more skill and greater training, the sports medicine specialst must develop increasingly sophisticated treatments to maintain fitness and prevent injuries. Dr. Pruzansky is one of the few in the country to have board certifications in both hand surgery and orthopedic sports medicine.

Today, more than ever, an injured athlete can look forward to a speedy return to sports thanks to a team of specialists that includes an orthopedic surgeon, a certified athletic trainer, and a physical therapist. Coupled with the latest techniques in rehabilitative medicine and arthroscopic surgery, this team can minimize your risk of injury and maximize your recovery from a sports related injury.

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Dr. Pruzansky is an orthopaedic surgeon in New York City, specializing in surgeries of the hand and upper extremities, including sports medicine, with expertise in throwing, serving, and lifting injuries to the upper extremity. Dr. Pruzansky also performs endoscopic carpal tunnel release, tennis elbow and pitcher’s elbow surgery, and repair of the joints, tendons, ligaments, and nerves of the upper extremity, in addition to gamekeeper’s thumb, skier’s thumb, trigger finger, de Quervain’s tendinitis, wrist disorders, wrist sprains, pediatric orthopaedics, congenital malformations, hand surgery, carpal tunnel release, medial and lateral epicondylitis, arthritis of the hand, osteoarthritis, rheumatoid arthritis, compression neuropathies, tendon transfers, ganglion cysts, tumors of the hand, wrist, and forearm, and cubital tunnel syndrome.

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