Welcome.

Thank you for your interest in making the children of Hawks Soccer Club healthier through timely injury screening and referral, injury prevention and education.

As a benefit to Hawks Soccer Club, OccuSport will provide:

• Free sports injury evaluation within 24 hours of occurrence and prompt referral if necessary to the finest medical professionals in the Chicago area.
• A sport-specific information sheet for you for ACL and injury prevention
• A sample exercise sheet that your players can do for injury prevention, and knee rehabilitation from tendonitis, patellar dysfunction, ITB syndrome and general LE weakness
• An anatomical description of the ACL and its function, for patient education

Additionally, we offer comprehensive physical therapy and rehabilitation for both pre-and post-surgical ACL. We can prepare the patient’s hip, knee, lower extremity and core for post-surgical inactivity, leading to faster recovery times and increased post-surgical strength.  We provide full post-surgical rehabilitation, including acute management, progressive, active, and return to sport-specific activity.

We also offer sport-specific training through the Get Fast Inc./Acceleration program, which trains anaerobic and aerobic strength, lower extremity power, speed, jump height, and plyometrics. The full package results in an athlete that is biomechanically proper from therapy and sport ready from post-rehabilitation training. 

We look forward to the opportunity to serve your club, make them healthier and more prepared athletes, and most of all, offer the best team-medical care possible to the area. 

Please contact us with any questions that you may have.  We are available through both phone and email.

Thank you,
Gina Pongetti, MPT, MA, CSCS