F. Clarke Holmes, MD at
Nashville Orthopaedic Specialists

Dr. F. Clarke Holmes, IV,  a board certified sports medicine physician, joined NOS in September 2009. Since 2006, Dr Holmes had served as the Director of Sports Medicine and head team physician at Georgetown University in Washington, DC. Prior to Georgetown, Dr. Holmes served as an Assistant Professor of Orthopaedic Surgery at the University of Mississippi Medical Center.

He graduated with honors from the University of Mississippi School of Medicine and was inducted into the prestigious Alpha Omega Alpha National Honor Medical Society. Prior to medical school, he graduated with the highest honors from Ole Miss.

Dr Holmes completed his sports medicine fellowship at Ball State/Central Indiana Sports Medicine in 2002 and his residency at Tallahassee (FL) Memorial Healthcare.

Dr Holmes vast experience in Sports Medicine has afforded him the unique distinction of being one of only two physicians in the state of Tennessee to sit on the Tennessee Sports Medicine Advisory Council.

Dr. Holmes brings extensive experience in treating athletes, youth to professional level, with an expertise in:

• Running/Cycling injuries
• Stress fractures
• The overhead throwing athlete
• Knee arthritis
• Acute and chronic tendon problems
• Concussions
• Joint and soft tissue injections
• Musculoskeletal ultrasound
• Nonsurgical management of a wide array of other orthopedic conditions