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popular Sharon Health Center
RANDOLPH, April 8, 2008 – Experienced sports medicine provider and family physician Dr. Peter Loescher has joined Gifford Medical Center’s popular Sports Medicine Clinic in Sharon.
Dr. Loescher was previously in private practice at the former White River Sports Medicine in Lebanon, N.H., and White River Family Practice in White River Junction, where he continues to see patients.
At Gifford’s Sharon Health Center, Dr. Loescher
will provide non-surgical sports medicine and
orthopedic care.
The Sharon Health Center and its Sports Medicine
Clinic has quickly become popular among athletes.
Since opening in October 2005, the Sharon Health
Center’s number of sports medicine patients has
risen more than sixfold resulting in a space crunch.
This winter, 2,200-square-feet, full-time physical
therapy and X-ray technology was added to the
health center, and now Dr. Loescher joins podiatrist
Dr. Robert Rinaldi and chiropractor Dr. Hank Glass on the sports medicine team.
“I’m very excited at the opportunity to provide comprehensive sports medicine care with imaging evaluation and therapy in a single, user friendly-setting,” says Dr. Loescher of his new role at the expanded Sharon Health Center.
A graduate of the University of Massachusetts-Worcester Medical School, Dr. Loescher is board certified in family practice, completed his internship at Concord Hospital in Concord, N.H., was a resident at Dartmouth-Hitchcock Medical Center in Lebanon and was a sports medicine fellow at the Eastern Oklahoma Orthopedic Center in Tulsa.
He is a member of the American Medical Society for Sports Medicine and the American Academy of Family Practice. He also works as an assistant professor of sports and family medicine at Dartmouth Medical School in Hanover and is the school physician and director of sports medicine at the Cardigan Mountain School, a boys’ preparatory school in Canaan, N.H.
At Gifford, Dr. Loescher will treat athletes of all ages. “Eighty percent of orthopedic problems are non-surgical, and we will employ a wide variety of treatment techniques to return our patient-athletes to full activity. We will work to avoid surgery if possible, and work with our surgical colleagues when non-surgical options are not enough,” Dr. Loescher says.
Pediatric injuries, overuse injuries, arthritis pain and using exercise to treat medical conditions are Dr. Loescher’s main clinical focuses. He also treats fractures, acute and chronic pain and tendon injuries, including chronic tendonitis.
“There is an athlete inside every person – whether that takes the form of a daily walk or an Olympic medal. My goal is to help patients get active and to stay active for their entire lives,” Dr. Loescher says.
Dr. Loescher is active himself.
An Etna, N.H., resident, he plans to ride his bicycle to work at the Sharon Health Center. He also runs, hikes, skies and plays tennis and squash. He is married and has two children, Caroline, 5, and Samuel, 2.