Vail-Summit Orthopaedics in Vail, Colo., entered into a joint venture with Team Summit Colorado to provide preventative care and medical coverage to youth skiers and snowboarders at Team Summit.
Here are four notes:
1. Vail-Summit Orthopaedics will provide on-call coverage from their athletic trainers, medical director services for all orthopedic and neurological sports medicine needs and pre-season physicals.
2. Through the partnership, Team Summit will receive initial consultations with Vail-Summit Orthopaedics' specialists, as well as education lectures on athlete health and safety.
3. Vail-Summit Orthopaedics has provided bone, joint and muscle care to patients since 1979 and has expanded into three locations across Colorado.
4. Physicians at Vail-Summit Orthopaedics specialize in ports medicine, neurosurgery, orthopaedic trauma, joint replacement and revision, physical medicine and rehabilitation.