Therapy Services

Jammed Finger? Early Treatment Can Improve Outcomes

Jammed Finger? Early Treatment Can Improve Outcomes

When an injury occurs to a young athlete’s bones, ligaments and muscles in their hand, an evaluation is needed. A properly treated hand injury will most likely heal without complications. In basketball and volleyball, fingers are at an increased risk of injury due to...

Get To Know Our Staff: Timothy Nuckols, Therapy Services

Get To Know Our Staff: Timothy Nuckols, Therapy Services

What is your job title/your role at Scottish Rite?I supervise therapy technicians, assist physical therapists with daily exercises selected for their patients and help ensure that patients are using proper technique in therapy. What is the most fulfilling part of your...

Mastering Daily Tasks To Help Others Feel Their Best

Mastering Daily Tasks To Help Others Feel Their Best

Previously published in Rite Up, 2024 – Issue 2. Fifteen-year-old Zion, of Glenn Heights, is preparing to become an esthetician when she graduates from high school. Her mother, Tiffany, bought her a mannequin that she uses to practice giving facials and applying...

Supporting the Mental Aspects of Recovery after an ACL Reconstruction

Supporting the Mental Aspects of Recovery after an ACL Reconstruction

Anterior cruciate ligament injuries (ACL) continue to be a problem in youth sports such as basketball and soccer. Many athletes and families are very aware of the lengthy physical aspect of returning to sport after an ACL injury and surgery. Some are surprised by the...

Progression from “Pop” Back to Pitching

Progression from “Pop” Back to Pitching

A young baseball player hears a pop and immediately feels pain in his throwing elbow while playing club baseball. At his first visit to Scottish Rite for Children’s Fracture Clinic, Parker and his family were told that surgery was necessary to reattach a separated...

Limb Loss and Limb Differences: Terms You Need to Know

Limb Loss and Limb Differences: Terms You Need to Know

There are many different words that are used to describe limb loss and limb differences. These medical terms allow patients and their families to effectively communicate with their health care provider. This glossary of words and phrases will help you learn some of...

Cerebral Palsy Clinic: Your Child’s Care and What To Expect

Cerebral Palsy Clinic: Your Child’s Care and What To Expect

At Scottish Rite for Children, our experts provide care to the whole child – body, mind and spirit. The Neurology and Rehabilitation Medicine department sees children with orthopedic issues who also have related neurological disorders and neuromuscular diseases. One...

Get to Know our Staff: Madelyn White, Therapy Services

Get to Know our Staff: Madelyn White, Therapy Services

What is your job title/your role at Scottish Rite for Children?   I’m a sports physical therapist at our Frisco campus.   What do you do on a daily basis or what sort of duties do you have at work? I work with youth athletes with various injuries to get them back to...

Muscle Strain Q&A

Muscle Strain Q&A

Our world-renowned sports medicine experts are ready to help your injured athlete get back in the game. We have unparalleled experience providing nonoperative and arthroscopic care to treat common sport-related injuries including concussions, ligament injuries and...

What is a Bridge Program?

What is a Bridge Program?

Getting back to sports after an injury or surgery can be a long road. From the beginning of rehabilitation, the team is actively considering the best path for the athlete to get back to play safely with the lowest risk of re-injury. Depending on the condition and...

Return to Weight Lifting: A Guide for Young Athletes After Injury

Return to Weight Lifting: A Guide for Young Athletes After Injury

Patients in the Scottish Rite for Children sports medicine clinic may lift weights as part of their primary sport training or with a strength and conditioning coach to supplement sport-specific training. When an injured athlete is released back to activities that...

A Bridge Back to the Game

A Bridge Back to the Game

Specially designed for young athletes, Scottish Rite’s training classes help build strength, conditioning and confidence for both patients following rehabilitation after an injury and participants interested in overall athletic performance improvement. Program...

The Comeback Kid

The Comeback Kid

Cover story previously published in Rite Up, 2021 – Issue 3. by Hayley Hair The Comeback is Bigger Than the Setback On the wide-open field under the scorching summer sun, soccer player Lillian lines up her kick and launches the soccer ball through the air hurtling...

A Soccer Injury Won’t Slow This MVP Down for Long

A Soccer Injury Won’t Slow This MVP Down for Long

During a soccer game this spring, 14-year-old “Coppell FC” midfielder, Thomas, blocked a shot and fell to the ground. His father, Michael, didn’t think too much of it. Thomas often puts his body on the line to make shots and blocks, and most of the time, he quickly...

A Soccer Injury Won’t Slow This MVP Down for Long

A Soccer Injury Won’t Slow This MVP Down for Long

During a soccer game this spring, 14-year-old “Coppell FC” midfielder, Thomas, blocked a shot and fell to the ground. His father, Michael, didn’t think too much of it. Thomas often puts his body on the line to make shots and blocks, and most of the time, he quickly...

Apophysitis of the Hip or Pelvis

Apophysitis of the Hip or Pelvis

The professionalization of youth sports has led to an epidemic of overtraining. With that comes an increase in injuries caused by overuse. Unlike injuries from overuse in adults, like carpal tunnel syndrome, pediatric overuse injuries occur at areas of the bones...