Sports Medicine: Caring for All Athletes

Orthopaedic and sports-related conditions and injuries happen year around whether you're an avid runner or you get hurt working in the yard. Here to tell us more is Dr. Carole Vetter, a sports medicine orthopaedic surgeon with the Froedtert & MCW health network. 

What is sports medicine? 

Sports medicine is the medical care of injuries and conditions that result from being active, whether you're an athlete or in your daily activities or maybe things that happen at work. 

What types of injuries and conditions does your team treat? 

We take care of the common to the complex. We take care of young people playing on the playground, a professional athlete who gets injured on the court, an 80-year-old playing pickleball. The most common things we take care of are meniscal tears — ligament injuries to the knee like an ACL tear — or rotator cuff tears. 

Why should someone choose the Froedtert & MCW sports medicine team? 

We're very specialized in what we do. We can treat with rehabilitation or surgery. We're an academic health network that teaches the next generation, and so we have the latest knowledge that we share with our residents and our people we're educating, but we share that with our patients as well. As head team physician for the Milwaukee Bucks, I have to be at that highest level, and the things I share for those players, I share with the patients I see from the community.