Dr. Madden completed a sports medicine fellowship at the University of Pittsburgh and is board certified in Sports Medicine. Dr. Madden’s sports medicine experience is broad, he has worked with athletes and active individuals at various levels, from children to professional. He is on the Clinical Faculty at the University of Colorado Health Sciences Center,
Department of Family Practice, and he teaches sports medicine intermittently to residents. Dr. Madden also serves as a team physician and participates in
event coverage for endurance and ultraendurance races. Academically, he co-edits three popular sports medicine texts, and he authors various chapters in each of them, and in other sports texts and journals. He also edits and authors a sports medicine patient education engine that focuses on pre-visit information for an internet-based patient education company (see Self Care
under patient education). Dr. Madden has lectured nationally on various topics and he is involved with the American College of Sports Medicine and American
Medical Society for Sports Medicine. He received the AMSSM Founder’s Award in 2011, an award granted occasionally to the “best” in the field of sports medicine.

Dr. Katz completed a sports medicine fellowship at the University of South Carolina in 2006 and has a diverse background in both family and sports medicine. Dr. Katz has extensive experience and a special interest in lifestyle and health promotion and disease prevention. He heads co-developed and runs the lifestyle program at the practice with our nutritionist. Dr. Katz has worked with athletes and exercisers in a variety of settings, and he continually works on promoting health promotion and disease prevention in all of his patients. Dr. Katz has an academic interest in and is currently developing a program targeted at these goals, and considers himself a preventive medicine activist. Dr. Katz is an active member of the American Society for Sports Medicine.

Dr.'s Madden and Katz treat a variety of sports and active patients, including children, adolescents, adults, and seniors. Sports and musculoskeletal services and areas of interest include:

* Sprains, strains, overuse, and other joint and muscle injuries
* Diagnostic ultrasound (dynamic imaging of various musculoskeletal injuries, injection guidance)
* Back pain
* Arthritis
* Neck and back pain
* Chronic medical conditions/disease in sports
* Preparticipation/sports exams
* Concussion and neurocognitive testing
* Exercise, lifestyle, and weight-loss counseling
* Orthotics
* Cycling (road and mountain) and bike fit
* Running injuries
* Environmental and altitude illness
* Skiing and snowboarding injuries
* Fracture care, including stress fractures
* Rehabilitation
* Return-to-play counseling
* Joint and soft tissue injections
*Regenerative platelet-rich plasma injections (prepare and inject your own growth factors to heal tendons and injuries)
* Gait analysis
* Osteopathic manipulative treatment (OMT) and manual therapy
* Trigger point injections and acupuncture needling