Piedmont Physicians Sports Medicine Augusta

Dr. Robert Gambrell, our board-certified and fellowship-trained sports medicine specialist, has extensive experience in treating musculoskeletal and orthopedic disorders having practiced in Augusta for over 20 years. His interests include general orthopedic and sports medicine problems including non-operative fracture treatment, concussion evaluation and management, and ultrasound guided musculoskeletal procedures such as injections, percutaneous tenotomy, and OrthoBiologics.

In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with his wife and children on their farm with their many animals, watching his children's sporting events, working out with his friends in F3, and enjoying the outdoors.

Dr. Torrance attended undergraduate and medical school at Mercer University. Prior to his Sports Medicine Fellowship, he served 9 years in forward deployed units in the US Army. He has served as team physician for American University, the Augusta Riverhawks professional ice hockey team, and multiple high school teams. He has provided medical coverage for multiple local, state, regional, national and international sports competitions; to include, multiple State, Regional and National Boxing Tournaments, the World Golden Gloves Boxing Championships, the US Armed Forces Wrestling Championship, and USA National Taekwondo championship.

His special interests include regenerative medicine, and minimally invasive, ultrasound-guided procedures for chronic, recalcitrant tendinopathies, and non-operative arthropathies.

In his spare time, he enjoys spending time with family, working out, reading; and whenever possible enjoying his 'sport of passion' as an adult: alpine skiing.