Sports Medicine Clinic Serving with Peak Athletic Performance in Mind
Gritman | Moscow Family Medicine’s Sports Medicine Clinic is now offering teen and adolescent wellness exams with sports physicals.
Annual adolescent and teen wellness exams, which are covered by most insurance programs, including Medicaid, are recommended by the American Academy of Pediatrics for all children age 5 and older and are much more thorough than simple sports physicals. The exam includes a complete physical examination of your child from head to toe. Our providers also take time to visit with your child about conditions and issues that teens and adolescents commonly face. The exams are also available at our rural clinics in Kendrick, Potlatch and Troy.
Dr. Jacob Christensen
“We really want to take some time and talk to them about things like sexual health, drug use, their mood and their risk for depression and anxiety. We want to talk about these things early and before they become a problem,” said Dr. Jacob Christensen, a sports medicine physician at Gritman | MFM. “You won’t get that in a typical sports physical. If you are in line with 50 people in a gym and do sports physicals, you are not going to be able to address all of those things that are really, really common and significant problems for teenagers.”
Student-athletes must have completed a sports physical to compete in school athletics. Call 208-882-2011 to schedule a wellness exam with a sports physical now to avoid the fall rush.
“You don’t have to wait until your season is about to start to get your wellness exam with a sports physical,” Dr. Christensen said.
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About Dr. Jacob Christensen
Dr. Christensen leads the Gritman | MFM sports medicine clinic and offers sports physicals, non-operative treatment of sports injuries, joint injections, ultrasound-guided injections and more. He joined the Gritman | MFM team after completing a Primary Care Sports Medicine Fellowship at the University of New Mexico. He also serves as a team physician for the University of Idaho Vandals.
COVID-19 Protocols
We have taken numerous steps at Gritman to ensure patients and visitors to our clinics and hospital are protected from COVID-19:
- All patients and staff are regularly screened for respiratory and COVID symptoms.
- All patients and staff are masked.
- Visitors are limited.
- Waiting rooms have been restructured for social distancing.
- Enhanced cleaning and disinfection protocols.
