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Diagnosis and Treatment of Athletic Injuries

As a non-surgical sports medicine specialist, Dr Wingfield specializes in diagnosis and treatment of athletic injuries. She has trained extensively with top sports medicine mentors and spent many hours working with elite athletes, diagnosing their injuries and working to get them back to the highest levels of performance as quickly as possible. She uses all that she has learned over the years to understand your injury and how best to get you back to health and activity.

Dr Wingfield believes that listening to you, the patient, will tell her 80% of what’s wrong. She uses hands on exam skills and diagnostic imaging to confirm or further investigate her diagnosis. She analyzes biomechanics and addresses all causative factors of the injury in her treatment plan, and her return to sport protocols and coaching help her patients return from injury stronger than they were. She works closely with physical therapists, acupuncturists, body workers, and nutritionists to facilitate healing, and uses injections when necessary to facilitate strengthening and return to sport. Her favorite quote from Sir William Osler, a Canadian physician who was instrumental in the development of clinical medical education is: “The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease.”