Sierra Pacific opens new Orthopedic Urgent Care

FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) -- Imagine your child's wrist is successful symptom aft playing successful the jungle gym.

Your archetypal thought mightiness beryllium a sojourn to the exigency room, but that could necessitate a agelong wait.

Patients present person the enactment of an urgent attraction sojourn astatine Sierra Pacific's caller Orthopedic Urgent Care.

"We supply attraction for assorted sports injuries: sprains, sprains, fractures, ligament tears," says Dr. Anirudh Sharma. "We are besides helping folks who person chronic symptom specified arsenic arthritis, symptom successful their hips, knees, ankles, elbows, shoulders, and we effort to assistance them rather a bit."

Dr. Sharma runs the urgent care.

He says it's important for patients not to hold being seen erstwhile it comes to muscle, bony oregon associated injuries.

The longer you hold could pb to a costly treatment.

"We tin springiness them capable diagnosis, attraction and person them returned faster, arsenic opposed to taking them longer -- having them person aggregate visits to antithetic providers," helium said. "Everything is in-house, and we effort to get them backmost to their activities fast."

With nary appointment, patients tin get an x-ray, a consultation and a customized attraction program by Dr. Sharma.

If much specialized attraction is needed, Dr. Shama tin marque a speedy referral to different doctors.

The urgent attraction is unfastened Monday done Friday from 8 americium to 4 pm.

There's besides different determination successful northeast Fresno, which is besides unfastened connected Saturdays.

Sierra Pacific accepts astir PPOs and Medicare.

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