The clinics are part of St. Luke's University Health Network's Sports Medicine Department's comprehensive Name Image Likeness (NIL) program, which aims to develop future leaders in our community.
At 66 years old, and still coaching track and field, swimming and cross-country, Ed Kolosky aka "Coach K" of Hellertown wishes he had gotten shoulder surgery at St. Luke’s sooner than last November. He’s thankful to his surgeon, St. Luke’s Chief of Orthopedic Sports Medicine Gregory Carolan, MD, of St. Luke’s Orthopedic Care, and physical therapist Jeff Hetrick, PT, MPT, at Physical Therapy at St. Luke’s North, for his post-surgery rehab.
St. Luke’s University Health Network will soon open the area’s newest specialty hospital for orthopedic surgery, where expert teams will perform same-day surgeries of the knee, hip, spine, hand and shoulder, and treat a myriad of sports-related fractures and other injuries. SLUHN officials expect the first patients to be treated in the new hospital beginning this winter.
St. Luke’s University Health Network and Moravian Academy have announced a partnership that will provide comprehensive sports medicine and health care services for members of the Moravian Academy family.
To help young athletes develop the psychological tools necessary for optimal performance, St. Luke’s Sports Medicine has brought on sport psychology consultant Chris Williamson, PhD, to work with its more than 60 partner school districts and colleges.
Each time Justin Kanyuk plants, pushes off or pivots his left foot and leg during a football game for the University of North Carolina next year, he’ll be relying on the strength and stability of his kneecap, which was rebuilt expertly by St. Luke’s orthopedic surgeon Scott Doroshow, DO.
Moravian College is fielding a new comprehensive sports medicine team in collaboration with St. Luke’s University Health Network, the region’s largest sports medicine provider, covering more than 100,000 athletes.
Mason Dolinsky--a junior soccer goalie at Tamaqua Area High School--is back on his feet defending the goal thanks to incision-less surgery performed by Chandra Reddy, M.D., an orthopedic surgeon with St. Luke’s Orthopedic Care working out of St. Luke’s Miners Campus in Coaldale, Schuylkill County.
St. Luke’s University Health Network has announced that William R. McCafferty III, D.O., has joined St. Luke’s Orthopedic Care as a Primary Care Sports Medicine physician and is accepting new patients.
