North Shore Physicians Group North Shore Physicians Group

Areas of Expertise

Areas of Expertise

Our areas of expertise include:

  • Injury prevention: assessing balance and symmetry, recommendations for preseason, in-season, and off-season conditioning programs
  • Painful joints and muscles from the shoulder to the finger-tips, hips to the toes
  • Neck and upper back pain, muscular pain in particular
  • Ultrasound-guided joint injections to help alleviate pain in joints, tendons, ligaments, and nerves
  • Sacroiliac pain
  • Sports-related concussion

Conditions that may be treated by non-surgical treatments:

Shoulder pain

  • Rotator cuff tears, tendinitis, tendinosis,(LINK TO PDF) calcific tendinopathy, frozen shoulder, deltoid strains, trapezius strains and pain, upper back pain and many other causes of shoulder pain

Elbow pain

  • "Tennis elbow”, “golfer’s elbow”, nerve entrapments such as cubital tunnel syndrome, and many others

Hand / Wrist

  • Carpal tunnel syndrome, tendinitis / tendinosis, fractures, ganglion cysts, thumb osteoarthritis, finger injuries, thumb injuries and many others

Knee problems

  • ACL ruptures and other knee ligament injuries, meniscus tears, osteoarthritis, patellar tendinitis / tendinosis (aka “Jumper’s Knee”), Osgood-Schlatter and many others

Hip problems

  • Osteoarthritis, “bursitis”, buttock pain, gluteal strains, groin pain, sports hernia and many others

Foot and Ankle

  • Sprains, arthritis, stress fractures, Achilles Tendon injuries / ruptures / tendinitis / tendinosis, plantar “fasciitis” / fasciosis and many others

Hamstring injuries and pain

Thigh and inner thigh pain

Calf injuries and pain

Sports hernia and pubic pain

Thigh numbness (“Meralgia Paresthetica”)

Abdominal wall pain syndrome