Kevin Crawford, MD

Dr. Kevin Crawford is the Medical Director and Head Orthopedic Team Physician for Texas Tech University Athletics. He has held that role since 2005, overseeing sports medicine care for Red Raider student-athletes across all varsity sports. He also provides team physician coverage for Frenship and Lubbock Cooper high schools.

He is a board-certified orthopedic surgeon at Lubbock Sports Medicine, where he treats patients of all ages with shoulder and knee conditions. His practice focuses on minimally invasive and arthroscopic surgery of the shoulder, knee, and elbow — including ACL reconstruction, rotator cuff repair, shoulder stabilization, and cartilage restoration. He also uses biologics such as platelet-rich plasma (PRP) and stem cell therapy to support healing.

Training

Dr. Crawford grew up in Lubbock and attended Monterey High School. He graduated from Baylor University in 1987 and earned his medical degree from the University of Texas Southwestern Medical School in Dallas in 1992. He completed his orthopedic surgery residency at UT Southwestern Medical Center and Parkland Hospital — one of the busiest trauma centers in the country — in 1997.

Dr. Crawford completed a Sports Medicine Fellowship at The Steadman Clinic in Vail, Colorado (then called Steadman-Hawkins). It is one of the top sports medicine training programs in the world. During that fellowship, he received advanced training in arthroscopic knee and shoulder surgery from the surgeons who pioneered many of the techniques now used across the field.

U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team

From 2004 to 2011, Dr. Crawford served as a U.S. Ski and Snowboard Team Physician. During those years, he traveled with the U.S. Men’s Alpine Ski Team to World Cup events and Olympic training camps in Europe and North America.

Recognition

KCBD named Dr. Crawford “Best of the West” in orthopedic surgery every year the individual award was given, from its inception in 2009 until the individual category was discontinued. He has been named to the Texas Super Doctors list every year since 2009.

He has authored book chapters and published in peer-reviewed journals including Arthroscopy and Clinics in Sports Medicine. He received the Arthroscopy Association of North America Fellow Essay Award for clinical research. He is a peer reviewer for the American Journal of Sports Medicine and the Journal of Shoulder and Elbow Surgery.

Board Certification and Memberships

Dr. Crawford is a Diplomate of the American Board of Orthopaedic Surgery and holds an ABOS Sports Medicine Subspecialty Certificate. He is a Fellow of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) and a member of the American Orthopaedic Society for Sports Medicine (AOSSM), the Arthroscopy Association of North America (AANA), the Hawkins Society, and the Texas Society for Sports Medicine.

Personal

Dr. Crawford and his wife Maura live in Lubbock. They have three children: Kylie, Colin, and Cadan.