“One of my heroes, the legendary UCLA basketball coach John Wooden, once said, 'Sports do not build character, they reveal it.' As a practicing orthopedist and sports medicine specialist for the past 28 years, I consider myself fortunate to witness up close the strength of character and level of determination exhibited by professional athletes and normal human beings as they work to recover from injury. The human spirit is a magnificent thing to watch.” – Arthur C. Rettig, MD

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Bio

Dr. Arthur C. Rettig specializes in sports medicine and disorders of the upper extremities.

Certified by the American Board of Orthopedic Surgeons, Dr. Rettig received his medical degree from Cornell University in 1967. He was an intern at San Francisco General Hospital in San Francisco, California, and served a second post-doctoral year at the University of California-Berkley. He completed his orthopedic surgery residency at the University of California-Irvine in 1976. He completed fellowships in sports medicine at Long Beach Memorial Hospital in Long Beach, California, and at the Indiana Hand Center in Indianapolis. His special areas of interest are the care and rehabilitation of injuries to the hand, wrist, elbow and knee, as well as arthroscopic surgery.

The practice of medicine is in the blood of the Rettig family. Dr. Rettig’s father was a physician and Dr. Rettig’s son, Lance, is also an orthopedist at Methodist Sports Medicine / The Orthopedic Specialists. As the team physician and lead team orthopedist for the Indianapolis Colts, Dr. Rettig gets to indulge his deep love for sports just about year round. He is also the orthopedic consultant and team physician to IUPUI and North Central High School.

In 2003, Rettig was honored with the Jerry “Hawk” Rhea award given annually by the Professional Football Athletic Trainers Society to an NFL physician for outstanding service to NFL players and the NFL Physician’s Society. He was also a co-recipient of the Indiana State Medical Association's Commission on Sports Medicine 2003 Team Physician of the Year Award.

A native of Muncie, Indiana, Dr. Rettig graduated from Yale University and is a member of the American Medical Association, the Indiana State Medical Association, the American Academy of Orthopedic Surgery, the American Orthopedic Society of Sports Medicine, the International Arthroscopy Association, the American Association of Hand Surgery, the American Society for Surgery of the Hand and the National Football League Physicians Society.

Dr. Rettig is a member of the Herodicus Society and is extensively involved in publishing research relating to sports injuries as well as hand and wrist injuries and rehabilitation.