Craig D. Clark, MD, is the medical director of Clark Sports Medicine and a board-certified orthopedic surgeon. Yet, what he does for his patients goes far beyond surgery. He treats them like real people instead of injured body parts. He looks for the most effective conservative treatments – for people with injured necks, shoulders, backs, elbows, wrists, knees and ankles – before considering surgery. For Dr. Clark, surgery is nearly always a treatment of last resort.