Dr. Ari Kramer
Favorite All-Time Combat Athlete: Roy Jones Jr.
Favorite Film: The Godfather Part 2
Preferred Combat Sport: Mixed Martial Arts
Reason Why You Became Part of the Fight Doctors Team:In our journeys with high-level professional athletes, it became readily apparent that there was a paucity of approachable medical resources for the majority of competitors. It was an obvious gap that needed to be filled.
TheFightDoctors.com was launched with my partners to create a multi-specialty medical company to educate and maintain athlete safety. Our goal is to support professional weight-based combat athletes and give the public access to the same professional medical support. We do this by being a readily available resource to cutting-edge training, recovery, and injury prevention paradigms founded in the latest performance-based science.
Who Inspired You to Become What You Are Today and How: Dr. Brett Osborn, a practicing neurosurgeon and rabid proponent of optimizing robust health and living, whose passion for achieving maximum gains in all of life became my own working mantra.
Ari Kramer, MD, earned his postgraduate medical degree from Ross University School of Medicine and subsequently completed his General Surgical training at Spartanburg Medical Center. He currently maintains the American College of Surgeons Board Certification and is a general surgery specialist in Spartanburg, SC. Since getting his license to practice in South Carolina, Dr. Kramer has been practicing for over 24 years and currently practices at Medical Group of the Carolinas – Vascular Access Services and is affiliated with Spartanburg Medical Center.
Dr. Kramer is the co-founder of thefightdoctors.com, a combat-based medical company whose principles were founded on providing combat athletes personalized access to medical strategies for optimizing performance and preventing injury. He continues to serve as a medical advisor to professional teams and individuals seeking experience in coordinating subspecialty medical services while also serving as the primary educator to athletes and teams on high-risk weight-cutting practices. He has a broad knowledge of mixed martial arts and related traumatic injury, maintains an active interest in primary prevention and post-combat recovery, and serves local, regional, and professional athletes at every level in MMA.
