Ryan Center for Sports Medicine at Boston University

From casual bikers and weekend warriors to best-in-class athletes, anyone can experience injuries. If you’ve experienced a sports-related injury or condition, BMC’s expert sports medicine providers are here to help get you back to doing what you love.

Providers at the Ryan Center for Sports Medicine guide patients through the diagnosis and treatment of their condition, whether it is a musculoskeletal (MSK) issue from overuse or injury, a concussion, or a medical issue related to sports participation. The center offers on-site x-rays and ultrasound to help evaluate a patient’s condition. Once diagnosed, physicians can design a treatment plan that is patient-specific in order to obtain the best results possible.

Preventing Common Sports Injuries

Contact Us

NOTE: The best address to use for the entrance to the Ryan Center is 10 Buick St, Boston, MA 02215

915 Commonwealth Avenue Boston, MA, 02215 Boston University Fitness & Recreation Center
Ryan Center for Sports Medicine at Boston University

617.358.3400

Fax: 781.325.4932

Monday-Friday 8:00 AM - 4:30 PM

Specialty Clinics

Orthopedic Surgery

We provide comprehensive orthopedic care for acute and chronic conditions to help you get back to the activities you love.

Treatments & Services

In addition to the treatment services below, we also perform:

Shockwave therapy - a non-invasive, low-risk treatment that helps to stimulate the body's natural ability to heal. It is primarily used to relieve pain and encourage healing of tendons and other soft tissues. Some examples of conditions that can be treated with shockwave therapy include plantar fasciitis, Achilles tendinopathy, tennis elbow and rotator cuff pain. There is very little downtime with this treatment and athletes can typically return to activity within 24 hours.
Needle fenestration/percutaneous tenotomy with TendoNova - a minimally invasive in-office procedure for treating chronic tendon pain.

Athletes and non-athletes experience common pain conditions such as arthritis and tendinitis. Ultrasound guided injections help treat these and other issues in many parts of the body. Injections to help with injury include corticosteroid, prolotherapy, and platelet-rich-plasma.

PRP injections are made from a person’s own blood. Platelets clot, which promotes healing in wounds and soft tissue where it may have been failing otherwise.

A sports-related concussion, formerly a mild traumatic brain injury, is a brain traumatic brain injury induced by biomechanical forces. Common causes include a direct blow to the head, face, neck or elsewhere on the body that causes a violent shaking of the head. Concussions are common when playing a contact sport, such as football.