Best Sports Medicine Clinic Scottsdale Near Me

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Sports Cardiology and Pulmonary • Sports Endocrine and Metabolism • Sports Ortho and Exercise Physiology

Are you looking to excel in your sport? Whether you’re a professional athlete, Olympian, triathlete or collegiate player, the Scottsdale Sports Medicine Institute team can help you get bigger, stronger and faster with their medical expertise and advanced testing.

Are you that person that works 9 to 5, then heads to the gym on a regular basis or gets in shape by playing in recreational leagues? The Scottsdale Sports Medicine Institute team can help provide the medical expertise you need to improve your fitness and stay healthy all year around.


Are you tackling a chronic medical condition like heart disease, diabetes or arthritis? Need to lose weight or eat better? The challenger athlete is the biggest population treated at Scottsdale Sports Medicine Institute. They provide a personal medical team approach treating all challengers with guidance to stay healthy and safe along with reaching their goals.

Whether you’re a professional, college or recreational athlete, Dr. David Carfagno constantly reminds all Scottsdale Sports Medicine Institute patients of that mantra. At one point in your life, you were an athlete. It could have been on the playground in grade school, or on a field or court in middle school and high school. Some of you even had the opportunity to play in college or take it to the professional level.

No matter what level you got to, Dr. Carfagno and his team want to instill and maintain that athlete mindset for the rest of your life. Why? It’s because it sets the stage and tone for the way you’re going to approach your health and fitness. There are three different levels of athletes that are treated at the institute. This includes the professional athlete, the weekend warrior and the challenger.

Let the SSMI team be your optimal partner in achieving health and fitness performance.

Hear for yourself how our patients are staying in the game at Scottsdale Sports Medicine Institute.

“Over the years, Dr. Carfagno has helped me through various sports-related injuries as well as kept my overall health and fitness in check by genuinely caring. I have been using his concierge service for several years, which means he is only a text message or cellphone call away if I need anything and he responds within minutes.”

“I remember telling Dr. Carfagno, I know I’m overweight, but since menopause, I’ve never been successful with any attempt to lose weight. He just looked at me with non-judgmental certainty and said, I can help you lose weight, that’s not a problem. I joined his Metabolic Enhancement Program (MEP) and lost 40lbs in 6 months, but more importantly, I feel confident in my identity as an athlete, albeit an aging one.”

“Dr. Carfagno has been my physician for 17 years and has saved my life more than once. I’ve had bladder cancer, an acute asthma attack and when no one would believe my left quad was in excruciating pain, he was the only one who believed me. It was through his efforts that we found the pin holding the rod in my leg was gouging my muscle tissues. ​Thank you, Dr. Carfagno for always being there for me!”

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At the Athletic Institute of Medicine, we treat all levels of athletes and non-athletes alike. From the weekend warrior to the Olympic contender. Our commitment to injury prevention, conditioning and training, nutrition, stress reduction, sports rehabilitation and sports psychology complement our ability to take care of and improved the performance of our patients. You do not have to be an athlete to be seen at the Athletic Institute of Medicine but you can count on receiving the same quality care and consideration we give our most elite performers.


At the Athletic Institute a Medicine, you will be asked to fill out a comprehensive history to help determine the underlying cause of your problem. This will include a 10-day food consumption diary and a questionnaire to determine your stress levels. Many of the orthopedic disorders are exacerbated by the foods we consume and increases in our stress levels. It is not uncommon to see improvement in Rheumatoid and Osteo-arthritis pain after dietary modifications. At the Athletic Institute of Medicine we work with a team of specialists that can help you establish good dietary habits and tips on how to decrease your stress levels and begin living a less stressful life. Recent studies have shown that chronic psychological stress is associated with your bodies inability to regulate the inflammatory response. Proper mind, body and nutrition assessment is paramount to establishing a good working diagnosis.


It is not uncommon to have patients present with the specific joint complaint that is a result of a biomechanical problem elsewhere. Therefore, our patients undergo a comprehensive assessment of their Core (spine, pelvic, hip complex), upper and lower extremity kinetic chain. During this time, we look for muscle imbalances, inefficient movements, joint motion deficits and problems with their kenetic chain, endurance and strength. We also do a gait and sports specific functional analysis. At this time we will analyze motion in the sagittal (flexion-extension), frontal (lateral side to side) and transverse (rotational) planes. If needed, we will use the latest in equipment and technology to better understand our patient’s problems. Many times comprehensive labs can be helpful in diagnosing underlying problems such as high cortisol and DHEA levels that can often times interfere with the bodies ability to self-heal and create hormonal imbalance.