The Ortho Access program at ONS offers an added level of safety to young athletes who are injured on the field.
If you missed yesterday’s Well column in The New York Times, it focused on the lack of national safety standards to protect student athletes from crippling or fatal injuries. Individual states and the schools within them, for the most part, haven’t yet adopted injury prevention and treatment policies or procedures for children who play organized or league sports either. The responsibility is all too often left to coaches and parents to assess what measures to take when a young athlete is injured and when they can return to play. 500 student athletes died last year due to poor decisions made immediately following injury, according to the article. The ORTHO ACCESS program at ONS is designed to add an extra layer of medical support and injury prevention education for coaches, athletes, and parents. During the first critical moments after a player is hurt, ONS ORTHO ACCESS sports medicine physicians helps to determine the best immediate course of action to take. Read more.