For a professional athlete, injuries are almost inevitable, another step in the ongoing cycle of athletic performance. But with expert care and attention, these athletes move from injury to treatment to rehabilitation and back to training and competition.

A deep understanding of this holistic cycle of care is a cornerstone at Lehigh Valley Orthopedic Institute, part of Jefferson Health, and a nationally recognized orthopedic leader that counts among its patients well-known names from the NFL, NHL, NBA, MLB and PGA Tour. The institute’s own roster of talent includes the world-renowned hand surgeon and Physician in Chief, Thomas Graham, MD.

Dr. Graham’s is a name many may recognize not only for his work as Arnold Palmer’s longtime doctor but also for the advanced hand and wrist medical techniques he has pioneered. (He holds more than 60 patents for implants and instruments.) His experience with Palmer, and over 2,500 professional athletes for whom he has cared in his three-decade career, has provided a unique “laboratory.” Top pros—a group Graham describes as “the only cohort on the face of the planet that requires 100th-percentile outcome”—is key to the unique expertise at Lehigh Valley Orthopedic Institute. However, elite athletes are not the only patients in the practice: Anyone can access the experts at Lehigh Valley Orthopedic Institute. “Experience with the elite athlete benefits the care for all patients because it demonstrates the limits of surgical science,” says Graham.

The same protocol of care professional athletes receive is what all patients enjoy at LVOI, where the athlete is defined, in the words of Dr. Graham, as all those “who seek the ultimate performance. The person lifting boxes for FedEx is an industrial athlete. And how about the warrior athlete? The first-responder athlete? The pregnant athlete? The physically and mentally challenged athlete? If we in the medical profession look at everybody who is seeking an active lifestyle and to improve their performance, everybody is an athlete.”

While there may be few realms where weekend warriors enjoy the same benefits as superstars, the medical care at Lehigh Valley Orthopedic Institute, a national destination for orthopedic care, is one of them. The leading-edge protocols pioneered and proven on athletes are the same ones the team of doctors applies to all patients.

Just as elite athletes are judged by their stats, so too can Lehigh Valley Orthopedic Institute be judged by its results. Here are a few to consider:

— Every year, more than 100 professional athletes who compete in all major sports rely on Lehigh Valley Orthopedic Institute as their caretakers of choice.

— The team of more than 200 board-certified, fellowship-trained musculoskeletal experts performs over 29,000 procedures and sees more than 500,000 clinical visits annually.

— U.S. News & World Report ranked Lehigh Valley Orthopedic Institute in the top 20 for the best orthopedic care in the United States.

The experts at Lehigh Valley Orthopedic Institute get the professionals back to the top of their games turning setbacks into comebacks, one movement at a time. They can also get you back to yours.