Last November, four Portland Providence Health Services officials visited the Dallas area and an unusual medical clinic at the Major League Soccer stadium there.
Pizza Hut Park, the 20,500-seat stadium, has been home since 2005 to FC Dallas. And the clinic Providence officials visited inside the soccer-specific stadium was the Baylor Outpatient Therapy Sports Medicine Clinic.
Built in 2006, Baylor is a 6,000-square-foot rehabilitation center where middle-aged Texans suffering from carpal tunnel syndrome, tennis elbow and other sports-related ailments can seek treatment.
Inside City Hall, Merritt Paulson—owner of the minor-league Timbers soccer team—has not been shy about the fact he wants to replicate Baylor’s treatment center at PGE Park when his expansion team begins Major League Soccer play in 2011.
He’s not necessarily concerned about Portlanders’ knees and joints. Baylor’s rehab center pays rent to Pizza Hut Park in a sponsorship