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In this article, Dr. Kurtis Kowalski shares his top five running tips for beginners to get you off on the right foot.

TOA takes pride in providing sports medicine coverage to student athletes across the state. Many TOA physicians serve as team physicians for our local schools, including Dr. Russell McKissick, who serves as team physician for MTSU and Rutherford County Schools.

Check out this bird's eye view of TOA! We have locations spread out across middle Tennessee for all of your orthopedic needs.

Check out shoulder, sports medicine, and knee specialist, Dr. J. Bartley McGehee in action as he provides sports medicine coverage for Ensworth School.

Check out this article for an overview of Scoliosis.

We're moving!

Thank you to everyone who came out for the ribbon cutting at our new Brentwood location last week. If you'd like to make an appointment at TOA Brentwood give us a call at 615-329-6600. Walk-in appointments are available.

TOA physicians take pride in serving as team physicians for high school and college athletes across the state. In the coming months, we will give you an inside look into how TOA supports student athletes and what it means to be a team physician, both for our doctors and the communities that they serve. In this video, you'll follow Dr. Kurtis Kowalski as he does physicals for Montgomery County athletes at the start of their season.

Meet Dr. Peter M. Casey! Dr. Casey is a fellowship-trained hand, wrist and elbow orthopedic specialist that sees patients at TOA's Brentwood, Clarksville and One C1TY locations.

In this TOA Tip, Dr. Christian Anderson details posterior hip pain, or pain that presents on the back side of the body.

In this TOA Tip, sports medicine, shoulder, hip and knee orthopedic specialist, Dr. Christian Anderson discusses lateral hip pain, or pain that presents on the side of the hip.

In this TOA Tip, Dr. Christian Anderson discusses frontal hip pain.

In this article, Dr. R. Edward Glenn, Jr. outlines some of the most common football injuries and what to expect if you sustain such an injury.

This article discusses the signs of an Achilles tendon rupture and the treatments available.

Shoulder, sports medicine and knee orthopedic specialist Dr. Martha P. George shares how she lives her best life, including how her athletic career prepared her for orthopedics and the importance of a balanced and healthy lifestyle.

Dr. J.W. Thomas Byrd is a sports medicine physician that specializes in conservative and arthroscopic treatment of hip disorders. If you'd like to learn more about Dr. Byrd, check out this video or visit him at TOA’s Nashville Hip Institute, Midtown location.

We often associate overuse injuries with sports, but a job that is demanding on your joints or requires repetitive motion, could put you at risk for an overuse injury. In this TOA Tip, Dr. Alexander Brown breaks down his top tips for preventing an overuse injury on the job.

Pain on the side of your hip can be deceiving, as it's often hard to distinguish hip pain from glute pain. In this TOA Tip, physical therapist Sarah Gill details how to differentiate between the two and what you can do if you're experiencing this.