TRIA Orthopaedic Center (@TRIAortho) is a comprehensive center for orthopaedic medicine, providing clinical and surgical care, research, and innovative programs, with physicians specializing in sports medicine, acute injury, shoulder, hip, knee, spine, hand and wrist, foot and ankle, and fractures. TRIA’s sports medicine specialists have served as official team physicians for Minnesota’s professional sports teams for over 25 years. For more information, visit www.tria.com.

TRIA Orthopaedic is a chapter sponsor of PCA-Minnesota providing education and support around issues such as concussions, over-use injuries and athletic training.  TRIA and PCA-Minnesota are collaborating to make youth and high school sports healthy and fun for all involved.

Here, Dr. Anne Moore and Dr. Heather Bergeson emphasize the need for pre-season check-ups to ensure athletes' fitness for their sports. Other key areas include following the rules of the sport, such as no spearing in football; maintaining a general awareness of surroundings, so that, for example, you do not collide with a gymnast swinging on a bar; and, of course, using proper safety equipment, such as helmets and mouthguards.