September 02, 2025

Treating an Orthopedic Injury in Paducah, KY

Baptist Health Paducah Sports Medicine and Orthopedics, we treat, a wide variety of musculoskeletal complaints, injuries, but also, you know, patients that are not necessarily an athlete or involved in a specific sport, but just, you know, have something that's bothering them that's, a joint pain, a muscle pain, that sort of thing. Non surgical treatments for many orthopedic conditions that we treat would include things like medications to help with the symptoms that they're having, which is typically pain, swelling. In addition to oral medications, we may use things like joint injections, steroid injections.

Physical therapy is a huge part of the treatment, algorithm for orthopedic conditions. So we are utilizing our physical therapy partners a lot to help patients through their orthopedic condition or injury. The body itself can do a really good job at healing these injuries. So sometimes all we need to do is help help determine, is this something that we need to intervene on, or is this something that we can watch and allow the body to do its job? When there are things that come up that need more than what we can do in the office, we consult with our surgical colleagues and get them in the appropriate hands. So if a patient has an injury that's affecting their sleep, affecting their job, making it where they can't participate in day to day activities the way they want to, they should call us and we can help sort that out.

Treating an Orthopedic Injury in Paducah, KY Healthtalk Transcript

Luke Beggs, MD, PhD, Sports Medicine
Baptist Health Paducah

Luke Beggs, MD, PhD:

At Baptist Health Paducah’s sports medicine and orthopedics, we treat a wide variety of musculoskeletal complaints, injuries, [and] also patients who are not necessarily athletes or involved in a specific sport, but just have something that's bothering them. That's joint pain, muscle pain, that sort of thing.

Nonsurgical treatments for many orthopedic conditions would include things like medications to help with the symptoms they're having, which is typically pain [and] swelling. In addition to oral medications, we may use things like joint injections, steroid injections, [and] physical therapy is a huge part of the treatment algorithm for orthopedic conditions. We are using our physical therapy partners a lot to help patients through their orthopedic condition or injury.

The body itself can do a really good job at healing these injuries. Sometimes, all we need to do is help determine: is this something that we need to intervene on, or is this something that we can watch and allow the body to do its job? When there are things that come up that need more than what we can do in the office, we consult with our surgical colleagues and get them in the appropriate hands.

If a patient has an injury that's affecting their sleep, affecting their job, making it where they can't participate in day-to-day activities the way they want to, they should call us, and we can help sort that out.