Sports Nutrition and Sports Psychology

When it comes to sports performance, what you eat and how you think can affect your play, as can hydration and sleep. Premier Orthopedics addresses these pillars of sports performance to help athletes elevate their game.

Our physicians are fellowship trained in sports medicine and offer advanced experience to address a broad range of sports medicine issues. Whether your goal is getting more from your workouts or helping your young athlete reach peak performance, we can help get you there.

Sports Nutrition for Adult Athletes

As our bodies age and change, our nutrition and exercise needs can shift. What worked in our 20s may no longer provide the same results. Nutrition choices especially can boost or derail performance, weight control, and overall wellness goals.

You’ve still got game! Let us guide you toward a custom nutrition and exercise plan that works for your body, your goals, and your life.

Haven’t been active for a while? Let us help you restart your fitness plan with a focus on your body’s nutritional needs.

We offer consultations* to address these issues to help you reach your sports performance and wellness goals:

• Bone health
• Energy levels and nutrition deficiencies
• General performance
  • For athletes without specific issues who want to improve performance
• Injury assessment for ongoing or acute joint and muscle pain
  • Referral to orthopedic surgeon if needed
• Muscle toning
• Weight loss or weight gain

Sports Nutrition and Sports Psychology For Young Athletes

Excelling in a sport requires more than raw talent, conditioning, and avoiding injury. What happens off the fields and out of gyms and studios can be just as important.

Let us guide you and your young athlete through an individualized assessment to address the pillars of sports performance: nutrition, hydration, sleep, and psychology. From here, we’ll develop a custom approach for keeping your athlete physically and mentally healthy, while boosting sports performance.

Young athletes age 6 through high school can benefit from our comprehensive approach.

We offer consultations* to help boost sports performance by addressing these issues:

• Focus improvement
• General performance
  • For athletes without specific issues who want to improve performance
• Injury assessment for ongoing or acute joint and muscle pain
  • Referral to orthopedic surgeon if needed
• Injury prevention
• Muscle mass/lean mass gain
• Performance-related anxiety
• Recovery improvement
• Sport-specific performance metrics
• Weight loss or weight gain

Sports psychology more specifically addresses the following issues:

• Depression
• Female athlete triad, eating disorders, disordered eating
• Generalized anxiety
• Insomnia
• Kinesiophobia (fear of pain from rehab/PT) and anxiety related to return to sport after injury
• Panic disorder
• Performance-related anxiety
• Psychological aspects of dealing with an injury and time off from sport