Dr. Victor M. Romano, MD

Specializing in Sports Medicine on athletes of all ages, Dr. Romano cares for injuries of the shoulder, elbow, wrist, hip, knee and ankle. Although he is skilled in arthroscopic procedures of the shoulder and knee, he encourages conservative care as much as possible, including platelet rich plasma (PRP) injections, and will work with you, your physical therapist and athletic trainers in your rehabilitation as well as preventative care. If surgery is necessary, Dr. Romano will give you state of the art arthroscopic surgery and direct you through an aggressive physical therapy program so that you may return to sports rapidly and safely.

Dr. Romano is also skilled in surgical and conservative treatment of trauma and fractures of the upper and lower extremities in children and adults. In order to prevent return costumers, he founded our Bone Health Clinic where we will assess your risk of future fractures, educate you in proper nutrition for bone health and, when necessary, start you on medication to increase your bone density and prevent secondary fractures.

Conservative and surgical arthritis care is another special interest of his. Dr. Romano will guide you through a specific program of orthotics, medication, exercise, injections and possibly limited arthroscopy. If surgery is necessary, rapid and successful recovery is possible by optimizing your physical and nutritional health before surgery, performing surgery with CT scan patient-specific total joint instrumentation and using similar rehab program that we do with our athletes.

Finally, outside the field of orthopaedics, Dr. Romano has a strong passion for protecting our athletes from the real dangers of concussions. Over 10 years ago, he brought the first computerized concussion-testing program into our community. Along with rest, vestibular therapy and other means, we use this program to insure that all of our young athletes have a safe return to sports. He is also participating with the University of Notre Dame on a program using speech recognition on iPads to detect a concussion immediately after the injury.

I want to take care of the whole person. I care about making people well, not just fixing a specific problem. I really believe everything is related. I don't want to just treat a shoulder or a knee. I want to make the patient healthier in general. I want to make them well. I'm interested in more natural modalities—physical therapy, sleep and nutrition—and I think patients are, too. People are more of the mindset now of wanting health—robust, lasting health—not just a fix for a particular problem. You have to have an integrated and modern approach for that to happen.