Pediatric Sports Medicine

Sports are an increasing part of the lives of our patients, both boys and girls. This is healthy, and we strongly encourage it. Physical exercise is fun and healthy, being on teams helps the psychological growth of our patients, and individual sports build individual strength and self-reliance.

But with the good comes the bad. Sprains, strains, fractures – not what we wish, but sometimes what we get. We have two pediatricians on our Bayside staff that bring special training and expertise to our sports-minded patients. Melissa Rose, MD, serves our patients in Contra Costa County. She received her training in sports medicine at the Robert Wood Johnson School of Medicine in New Jersey, and is not only interested in treating sports injuries, but also preventing them. Jonathan Bernheimer, MD, is an American, but he received his sports medicine training in England. He himself achieved mightily in sports, winning the NCAA squash championship while in college at Harvard, and later toiling as a professional squash player on the circuit in Europe.

Both of our sports medicine specialists are available for instant consults in our offices, and for appointments in their regular hours.