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There is a resource on Bells Ferry Road that a lot of East Cobb families still drive right past. OS1 Orthopedic & Sports Injury Clinic is a walk-in orthopedic clinic, about fifteen minutes from most of East Cobb, and it fills a gap this side of the county has lived with for years: somewhere to take a hurt knee that is not a three-week wait for an orthopedic office or an afternoon in the emergency room.
There are two kinds of orthopedic patients around here. The one who rolled an ankle Friday night, and the one who has been saying the shoulder is fine since March. OS1 treats both, and you do not need an appointment to be either one.
What comes through the door
Sprains and strains. Broken bones. Knee, shoulder, hip and back pain. Foot and ankle injuries. Wrist and hand injuries. Sports injuries. Arthritis. Tendon problems like tennis elbow. And the everyday wear and tear that shows up somewhere around the fortieth birthday and never quite leaves. Patients age two and up. Sports physicals are $25.
You can just walk in
No appointment, ever. No referral needed on most insurance plans. Walk in hurting, see an orthopedic provider the same day, and leave with a diagnosis and a plan, not a triage note and a phone number for somebody else. Doors are open Monday through Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Pain that has been hanging around
The injuries are the obvious cases. The bigger group is quieter. The knee that complains on the stairs. The hip that has stopped tolerating a walk. The elbow that has outlasted two tennis seasons. Arthritis slowly shrinking the list of things you are willing to do on a Saturday.
That is treatable, and it does not start with surgery. OS1 does joint injections, ultrasound-guided injections placed exactly where the problem is, PRP and regenerative options for the right candidates, bracing, casting, fracture care, and a real return-to-activity plan. Ultrasound-guided injections and non-surgical treatment are Dr. Andrew Alexander’s specialty. He trained in Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation at Mayo Clinic, completed a sports medicine fellowship at Emory, and has covered professional and high school teams. PRP and regenerative treatments are cash-pay, and you get the price before anything is done.
X-ray and an open MRI, same building
Most people get sent somewhere else for imaging. Different building, another appointment, another week, then a second visit to hear what the pictures showed. At OS1 the X-ray room and the MRI suite are down the hall, and the provider who examined you is the one who orders the scan and goes over it with you.
The MRI is open design, not a tunnel. No sliding into a narrow tube, no long stretch of trying not to panic, which matters to anyone claustrophobic, anyone larger framed, and any parent who has tried to get a nervous fourteen year old to hold still. For anyone paying cash it is a flat published rate of $475, a number most places will not say out loud.
On the sideline in Cobb
OS1 is a partner of North Cobb Warriors football, sponsors the Injury Timeout on the Warrior Radio Network at every game home and away, and runs K-8 physical days for local teams. It is also the preferred orthopedic and injury clinic for USA Prime Atlanta, the travel baseball program running more than thirty teams out of Titan Sports Academy. When a coach or an athletic trainer needs a kid looked at fast, this is the number they call.
And the bill
Most major insurance is accepted, and an orthopedic visit generally lands in the usual specialist copay range. Self-pay patients get flat published cash rates for the visit, the X-ray and the MRI, so nobody learns the price three weeks later in an envelope.
Walk in. Get answers. Get back to it. The clinic puts it in two words: Better. Sooner.
OS1 Orthopedic & Sports Injury Clinic
4300 Bells Ferry Road NW
Monday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Last patient accepted at 5:15 p.m.
(470) 790-0725
bettersooner.com/kennesaw
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