Ages 13 – 15
A 2-week summer program for students entering grades 8-10 focusing on sports medicine and orthopedics.
To keep athletes in the game — and improve the lives of individuals with disabilities — orthopedic surgeons, sports physiologists, and physical therapists need to be at the top of theirs. At EXPLO Ortho, we’re giving those future caretakers an enormous head start.
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In the EXPLO Ortho Focus Program, students learn how to keep athletes and individuals in top shape — in the operating room, training room, and on the field.
Step into training centers, rehab clinics, and onto the fields. You'll uncover the up-close life of sports medicine specialists as you set fractures, treat injuries, analyze spine trauma, and operate to get your athletes back in the game.
- Dissect muscles to understand joint and bone anatomy
- Repair a knee or shoulder during a computer-simulated arthroscopic surgery in the Dr. Dinesh Patel Arthroscopic Learning Lab at Massachusetts General Hospital, a teaching hospital of Harvard Medical School
- Immobilize fractures, spines or extremities on the field — and apply c-spine, traction, and splints
- Interview top sports medicine specialists who have worked with professional and collegiate athletes
- Operate shoulder-to-shoulder with one of Boston's best surgeons during a virtual surgery
- Learn to reduce fractures, to splint, and to suture
- Read real X-rays, MRIs, bone and cat scans to diagnose injuries
- Mend injuries with real ortho-glass splints and plaster casts
- Master the exercises required to strengthen a leg after an ACL tear
- Visit a professional rehab center at Gillette Stadium, home of the New England Patriots, to watch treatment in action
