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Why Dr. Christopher Miars?
20+ Years in Sports Medicine. D1 Team Physician. Registered RMSK Speciality Certification. He Gets You Moving Again.
An Expert in Non-Surgical Alternatives for Common Joint and Muscular Conditions
Dr. Miars brings sports medicine excellence to Waco, TX, and the surrounding areas. He makes a practice of staying on the cutting edge of medicine to provide minimally invasive procedures. Often these treat conditions that historically required surgical intervention. These procedures include Biologic treatments including platelet-rich plasma (PRP), bone marrow aspirate (BMA), and adipose graft injections. He also offers the Tenex tenotomy procedure to treat tendon conditions like tennis elbow, patellar tendonitis, Achilles tendonitis, plantar fasciitis, and hip bursitis.
The Experience of a D1 Team Physician Available to You
What makes a sports medicine physician different? Just like athletic goals: quickest, safest return to competition, they want to get you back to your favorite activities. Dr. Miars was a team physician for Baylor University for ten years. Before that, he served as a team physician at Texas A&M University for four years. He has also served as the medical director for a few favorite local sporting events:
- XTERRA WACO
- TRIWACO
- THE BEARATHON
- IRONMAN 70.3 WACO
- THE SILO DISTRICT MARATHON
“The thoroughness of Dr. Miars and the professional nature of his staff made my visit so much easier and life-changing. Dr. Miars gave me several options that pointed me to future success.”
LB
What You Can Expect From Me
I am passionate about helping athletes return to their sport and helping everyone participate in the activities they enjoy. Here are some of the ways I work to serve my patients:
- Continual learning- staying up to date on the medical literature and attending conferences/workshops to improve my skills to provide minimally invasive treatment options
- Communicate realistic expectations and outcomes of various treatment options, based on current research, with you.
- Coordinate care with other medical professionals when needed. Medicine is a team sport- whether coordinating care with an athletic trainer or physical therapist, referring to one of my surgical partners or recommending a sub-specialist in another community, your care is the priority.
- Conscientious with Cutting edge treatments- I follow the "American Medical Society for Sports Medicine Physician Statement: Principles for the Responsible Use of Regenerative Medicine in Sports Medicine" recommendations which includes asking our patients who receive some treatments to participate in our outcomes tracking system, OBERD.
Visit Dr. Miars in the new, state-of-the-art Baylor Scott & White Health, Southwest Sports Medicine and Orthopedics Center. Experience how nonsurgical sports medicine can make a difference in your life!
Treatable Conditions
In the past, many tendon, ligament, and arthritis diagnoses led to invasive surgeries with long recovery times. To get athletes back on the field and everyone else back on their feet, I've continued to train in advanced, minimally invasive options.
Orthobiologics is an alternative treatment for those wanting to avoid the potential adverse effects of steroid injections and those looking for a surgical alternative.
Sports medicine care for sprains, strains, and fractures and for those looking for Orthobiologics for chronic tendon pain, tennis elbow, Achilles Tendonitis, or elbow UCL injury.
Tenotomy is a minimally invasive nonsurgical treatment for hip bursitis, tennis elbow, shoulder tendonitis, and other tendon pain. Explore orthobiologic options like PRP, bone marrow, and adipose grafts.
High-volume injections performed in the office provide more rapid improvement in pain and motion than therapy alone while avoiding the anesthesia used with traditional frozen shoulder manipulation.
