The reason Dr. Mark Adickes decided to pursue a career in medicine after leaving the NFL is to have the opportunity to help people recover from some of the same injuries he dealt with during his 10 year career as a professional athlete. He has the unique perspective of understanding medicine from the viewpoint of the elite athlete, the patient and the physician. After enduring several surgeries and struggling through months of rehab Dr. Adickes brings a rare skill set to his patient interactions.
Dr. Mark Adickes, an Orthopedic surgeon serving Houston, TX & nearby areas, was raised all over the world as the son of an Army chaplain. He attended high school in Berlin and Munich, Germany and graduated from Killeen high school in central Texas where his father was stationed at Fort Hood. Dr. Adickes excelled in sports and received a football scholarship to attend Baylor University. At Baylor, he appeared in three bowl games and in his senior year he was the team captain and honored as a first-team All-American. He received a BBA in management and marketing upon his graduation from Baylor.
Sports medicine is a subspecialty of orthopedic medicine that deals with the prevention, diagnosis, treatment and rehabilitation of injuries suffered during athletic activity. The goal of a sports medicine doctor like Dr. Mark Adickes is to heal and rehabilitate injuries so patients can quickly return to their athletic activities.
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After eight seasons of professional football, Mark Adickes went back to school for 13 years to become a surgeon. Some know him as Sasquatch, others as Big Daddy. Robert Griffin III knows him as the first doctor to have fixed his knee.
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“Frankly, he was so much better on the mental side of things when he came back from his ACL [in 2009], I wouldn’t be surprised if we saw an even better Robert Griffin,” said Houston-based surgeon Mark Adickes, who happens to be a former Baylor and Redskins lineman and who performed Griffin’s 2009 surgery.
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