The Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance at the Mount Sinai Health System in New York City recently announced that it has become the official medical services provider on the East Coast for U.S. Red Bull athletes and Red Bull’s athlete performance programs.
Mount Sinai Joins Red Bull Athletes’ Medical Team
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Mount Sinai joins DISC Sports and Spine Center in Newport Beach, California, the official medical provider for Red Bull on the West Coast. Together they will help provide cutting edge medical care and sports performance programming to more than 200 Red Bull athletes across five different sports categories—action, adventure, aerial, athletic, and motorsports.
“This very exciting partnership enables Red Bull athletes to have access to Mount Sinai’s leading sports medicine specialists within the Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance, ensuring premium care and quicker recoveries,” said Joseph E. Herrera, DO, chair of Rehabilitation and Human Performance for the Mount Sinai Health System.
“As a result of this synergistic relationship, Mount Sinai specialists will have the chance to work closely with DISC to provide top notch coordinated care across the country to Red Bull athletes.”
“Red Bull has been a long-time leader in the study of human performance,” said David Putrino, Ph.D., director of innovation for the Mount Sinai Health System and an assistant professor of rehabilitation and human performance at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, who has a longstanding relationship as a consultant with Red Bull High Performance.
“This is an incredible opportunity for Mount Sinai to partner with an organization that has a globally recognized reputation for exploring the limits of human performance with their athletes. Together we will develop elite performance models that will achieve outstanding results.”
This new partnership will also create an active research program at Mount Sinai to investigate and analyze human sports performance and endurance in a lab setting. In addition, the Department of Rehabilitation and Human Performance may also provide medical coverage at events in which Red Bull athletes are competing.
Herrera told OTW that as part of the research program they will be looking at how music helps athletes perform as well as the use of visualization as a way to improve sports performance.
On the challenge of working with so many athletes across such a variety of sports, he explained that you need to gain an understanding of the mechanics of each sport to best manage and prevent injuries.
Mount Sinai is also the official medical services provider for the United States Tennis Association (USTA) Eastern Section and the US Open. This includes the U.S. Women’s Fed Cup team and the U.S. Men’s Davis Cup team.
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We implemented a similar approach last year. Early results are promising but we're still gathering 12-month follow-up data. Happy to share our protocol if anyone is interested.
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