If you watched Monday Night Football this week, you saw Tom Brady lead the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to an unlikely last-minute comeback, as he often does.
You may not know, however, that both teams had DOs on their sidelines working as team physicians and that both did sports medicine fellowships with Dr. Gunnar Brolinson, VCOM’s current vice provost for research and former director of our sports medicine fellowship. Dr. David Leslie (left), a 2018 Sports Medicine Fellow at VCOM-Virginia, was on the New Orleans Saints sideline. On the Tampa Bay sideline: Dr. Fred Brennan, who completed his fellowship at The Toledo Hospital’s Northwest Ohio Center for Sports Medicine, which Dr. Brolinson directed prior to coming to VCOM and Virginia Tech.
Sports medicine is a rapidly growing specialty, and because of the osteopathic philosophy of treating the whole patient and the incorporation of Osteopathic Manipulative Medicine (OMM), DOs have a host of relevant skills that help them treat athletes and active patients of all ages. Perhaps that’s why VCOM’s sports medicine program has seen such success in recent years. VCOM offers Sports Medicine Fellowships at both their Auburn and Virginia campuses. VCOM-Virginia also offers a 1-year Osteopathic Neuromusculoskeletal Medicine 3 (ONMM3) residency.
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