The Story - In 1980, J. Pat Evans, MD (Team Physician, Dallas Cowboys) and Don Andrews (Mobile Sports Medicine System) decided they would provide medical support services to professional rodeos. This innovative new sports medicine system linked a network of selected orthopedists, trauma specialists, athletic trainers, massage therapists, as well as hospitals and clinics around the nation to provide comprehensive medical coverage to the professional rodeo contestant.

From the back of a pickup truck at 10 Professional Rodeo Cowboy Association (PRCA) sanctioned rodeos, just 775 contestants were treated that first year. The Justin Sportsmedicine Team currently provides service to over 125 PRCA rodeos annually, while treating some 6,000 rodeo related injuries and illnesses.

The Justin Sportsmedicine Team brings everything they need to provide the best possible medical care with them to the rodeo. At indoor events, sports medicine centers are set up in the buildings close to the arena floor. At outdoor rodeos, one of two uniquely designed mobile sports medicine centers are driven in and parked close to the arena.

Each mobile sports medicine
center consists of a 40-foot
trailer pulled by a Dodge 
Dually pickup truck and carries
all the equipment and supplies common to medical facilities at
the other major sports in this
country. This includes
specialized treatment tables, 
modalities (electric stim 
units, compression systems, 
hot and cold therapeutic packs, etc.), communications, and educational devices such as television monitors and videocassette recorders.

Everything needed to provide the utmost in sports medicine services to these dedicated and unique professional athletes comes with the Justin Sportsmedicine Team to the event. The athletes know the value of the program and even go so far as entering rodeos that host the sports medicine staff when they are injured and in need of specialized medical treatment.