Sports Health Performance Programs and Services

Whether your child is competing as an elite athlete at a national level or just loves to run in the park, our holistic, specialized programs will help them achieve their personal health and fitness goals.

ACL Injury Prevention Program

A training program designed to correct biomechanical risk factors of an ACL injury and improve strength, power, and agility in young athletes. Decrease the risk of ACL injury by 50-70%.

Athletic Training Services

Nicklaus Children's licensed athletic trainers are contracted with local schools for sports coverage, sports physicals, club teams, athletic events, orthopedic physician extenders, organizations, & partnerships. Athletic Trainers (ATC's) provide injury prevention and performance optimization, emergency care, clinical diagnosis, therapeutic intervention and rehabilitation of injury.

Dance Medicine Program

Devoted to providing comprehensive medical and performance based care to young dancers. Our program maintains the health and wellbeing of the dancer through evidence based injury prevention and performance enhancing screenings, evaluations and training.

Overhead Athlete Program

Providing rehabilitation and training to minimize risk of injury in young athletes that play overhead sports such as baseball, softball, volleyball, tennis, and swimming.

Running Injury Prevention Program

Preventive screening and training for runners of all levels designed to identify and correct for biomechanical movement errors that increase the risk of a running related injury in teens.

Youth Athletic Development Program

Our youth athletic development program is not only a path for the aspiring elite athletes; it's an approach to physical activity and development for every child. Emphasis is placed on a safe progression of exercises that will improve the participants: strength, physical literacy and motor skills.