Duke’s experienced trainers design individualized programs to help athletes of all levels prevent injury and close the gap between athletic potential and performance.

The programs draw on the sports-injury and research testing performed at the Michael W. Krzyzewski Human Performance Research Laboratory, respectfully known as "K-Lab."

For each athlete, our staff selects assessments that are specific to his or her sport, position, and goals. Assessments may include VO2 max and lactate threshold, and various tests of agility, speed, power, strength, stamina, flexibility, and body composition. We apply the data to maximize each athlete's training and performance.

Our Programs

Sports Performance programs include:

• Sport-Specific/Athlete-Specific Personal Training Program: We help athletes of all ranks achieve higher performance levels, showing them the quickest route to their potential.
• Professional and Elite Athletes Program: We offer this program as a supplement to professional teams' player development and medical programs, as well as for non-professional elite athletes. It includes the services of exercise physiologists, a sports nutritionist, sports medicine physicians, physical therapists, and a sports psychologist. Options for hotel accommodation include the Washington Duke Inn & Golf Club, where the chef works with our nutritionist to provide our athletes with optimal nutrition that suits their preferences and needs.
• Master Athletes Program: This program parallels our Personal Training and Professional Athletes programs and focuses on the needs of athletes over 40.
• Duke University Varsity Athletes Program: We provide performance testing and data analysis for Duke University's NCAA Division I teams.

Facilities

Training facilities include:

• Weight rooms
• Grass and turf practice fields
• Mondo Super-X track
• Wooded cross country trails
• Olympic swimming pool
• Wallace Wade Football Stadium
• Basketball courts
• Racquetball courts
• Full range of cardiovascular equipment

Contact

For more information, including cost per program, please contact Greg McElveen, director of the Duke Sports Performance Program, at 919-681-4184 or greg.mcelveen@duke.edu.

Physicians

Physicians offering this service include:

• Alioto, Richard J.
  • Surgery / Orthopaedic Surgery
• Berkoff, David J.
  • Surgery / Emergency Medicine
• Buckel, Scott L.
  • Surgery / Orthopaedic Surgery
• Diehl, Lee H.
  • Surgery / Orthopaedic Surgery
• Moorman, Claude T. III
  • Surgery / Orthopaedic Surgery
• O'Malley, Donald F. Jr.
  • Surgery / Orthopaedic Surgery
• Parekh, Selene G.
  • Surgery / Orthopaedic Surgery
• Roberts, Jeffrey B.
  • Duke Primary Care / Duke Urgent Care Morrisville
• Summers, Ronald Alan
  • Surgery / Orthopaedic Surgery

Locations

This service is available at:

• Capital Orthopaedic and Sports Medicine
  401 Keisler Drive, Suite 100, Cary, NC 27518
• Duke Orthopaedics of Person County
  601 Ridge Road, Roxboro, NC 27573
• Duke Orthopaedics of Raleigh
  3480 Wake Forest Road, Suite 204, Raleigh, NC 27609
• Duke Orthopaedics of Raleigh (Knightdale)
  162 Legacy Oaks Drive, Knightdale, NC 27545
• Duke Orthopaedics of Vance County
  511 Ruin Creek Drive, Suite 106, Henderson, NC 27536
• Duke Sports Medicine
  Finch Yeager Building, 280 Frank Bassett Road, Suite 317, Durham, NC 27710
• Duke Sports Medicine Morrisville
  10950 Chapel Hill Road, Morrisville, NC 27560
• University Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine
  11618 US Highway 70 West, Suite 200B, Clayton, NC 27520
• University Orthopaedics and Sports Medicine
  507 North Brightleaf Boulevard, Suite 100, Smithfield, NC 27577